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METALLIC AND HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS

Description: This book chapter presents an overview of research conducted in our laboratory on preparation, optical and physico-chemical properties of metallic and nanohybrid materials. Metallic nanoparticles, particularly gold, silver, platinum or a combination of those are the main focus of this review manuscript. These metallic nanoparticles were further functionalized and used as templates for creation of complex and ordered nanomaterials with tailored and tunable structural, optical, catalytic and surf… more
Date: May 2, 2012
Creator: Murph, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Net.Lang : Towards the Multilingual Cyberspace

Description: This publication is an educational, political and practical guide to policy and practice to understand key issues of multilingualism in cyberspace. Multilingualism is the new frontier of the digital network. This book presents the issues, and provides suggestions for a cyber-presence This publication, supported by UNESCO, will contribute to interdisciplinary dialogue among various stakeholders, open up new horizons for better understanding the importance of linguistic diversity, raise awareness… more
Date: 2012
Creator: Vannini, Laurent & Le Crosnier, Hervé
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Rabha Textbook

Description: Book with 32 lessons on the Rabha alphabet and vocabulary used to teach Rabha in primary schools.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Rabha, Daniel; Rabha, Karuna Kanta; Cherenga, Kantri; Baksaka, Sandesh; Kanta, Taruni; Rabha, Nitu Rani et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Oral History Interview with Carlos Puente and Maria Esther Puente, March 15, 2012

Description: Transcript of an interview with Carlos Puente and Maria Esther Puente, Fort Worth-based Chicano political activists. They discuss the Raza Unida Party in Tarrant County and throughout Texas; efforts to improve the economic, social and political aspects of the Chicano community; Carlos Puente's service on Fort Worth City Council; Roadblocks Mexican-Americans faced in campaigning and running for political office, city council and school board, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s; Challenges of he… more
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Date: March 15, 2012
Creator: Martinez, Peter C.; Puente, Carlos (Activist) & Puente, Maria Esther (Activist)
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)

Description: This document is a technical Recommended Practice for use in developing a broader consensus on what is required for an archive to provide permanent, or indefinite Long Term, preservation of digital information. This Recommended Practice establishes a common framework of terms and concepts which make up an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). It allows existing and future archives to be more meaningfully compared and contrasted. It provides a basis for further standardization within an archi… more
Date: June 2012
Creator: CCSDS Secretariat, Space Communications and Navigation Office, 7L70
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Wastebook 2012

Description: Senator Tom Coburn released his Wastebook 2012, a report outlining wasteful federal policies that cost taxpayers more than $19 billion dollars a year.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Coburn, Tom
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oral Literature in Africa

Description: This revised edition makes Finnegan’s ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language” and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This volume is complemented by original recordings of stories and songs from the Limba country (Sierra Leone), collected by Finnegan d… more
Date: 2012
Creator: Finnegan, Ruth H.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

Description: Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are increasingly user-friendly and affordable. However, along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical flipside: the norms regulating culture's use — copyright and related rights — have become increasingly restrictive. This book brings together essays by academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists … more
Date: March 2012
Creator: De Rosnay, Mélanie Dulong & De Martin, Juan Carlos
Partner: UNT Libraries

The Digital Squeeze: Libraries at the Crossroads: the Library Resource Guide Benchmark Study on 2012 Library Spending Plans

Description: The second annual benchmark study of library spending plans from Library Resource Guide explores the wide range of spending and priorities decision-making taking place in 2012 budgets for public, academic and special libraries. Includes year-to-year comparative data. Learn where peer institutions are focusing their scarce investments, based on a study of over 700 participating North American institutions.
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Date: April 2012
Creator: McKendrick, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries
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University of North Texas Requests for Legislative Appropriations For Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015

Description: Report submitted by the University of North Texas to the Texas 81st regular legislature requesting appropriations to fund university programming and activities. It includes an overview of the university's goals, summaries of appropriations requests for fiscal years 2014 and 2015, and supporting documentation.
Date: October 15, 2012
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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University of North Texas Budget: 2012-2013, Summary Schedules

Description: Summary schedule for the budget of the University of North Texas regarding funds in the fiscal year 2012-2013, containing summarized information for funds and expenditures in broad university-wide categories.
Date: 2012
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Douglas Chadwick, July 19, 2012

Description: Interview with Douglas Chadwick, former executive director of the UNT Foundation from Dallas, Texas. Chadwick discusses his family background and education at Southern Methodist University, his career in administration, work as Director of Planned Giving at UNT, involvement with the UNT Foundation and work as executive director, building connections and financial support, changes in the Foundation through the years, thoughts on the future of the Foundation and University, and his retirement.
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Date: July 19, 2012
Creator: Kilgore, Deborah K. & Chadwick, Douglas
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access

Description: UNESCO issued this publication to demystify the concept of Open Access (OA) and to provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. Building capacities in Member States for Open Access is a necessary but not sufficient condition for promotion of the concept. Creating an enabling policy environment for OA is therefore a priority. This publication will serve the needs of OA policy development at the government, institutional and funding agency level. The overall objective of the Pol… more
Date: 2012
Creator: Swan, Alma
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Story Log: July 1 to December 31, 2012]

Description: Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from July through December in 2012.
Date: 2012-07/2012-12
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Story Log: January 1 to June 30, 2012]

Description: Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from January through June in 2012.
Date: 2012-01/2012-06
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Oswald's Confession]

Description: Graphic novel titled, "Oswald's Confession" written by Jim Marrs and serves as a companion publication to his book "Crossfire." The graphic novel covers the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Date: 2012
Creator: Marrs, Jim
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Frtiz E. Schwalm

Description: Interview with Dritz Schwalm, a professor at the University of North Texas from Arolsen, Hesse. Schwalm discusses his family background, the county of Waldeck, his education, moving to the United States and working in academia, his parents' laundry business, the University of Marburg, working at Texas Women's University and the University of North Texas, German culture in the United States, shopping, the Goethe Institute, American politics, thoughts on citizenship, and radical leftists in Germa… more
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Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Cox, Robert & Schwalm, Fritz E.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Ginger Heiman, July 26, 2012

Description: Interview with Ginger Heiman, certified public accountant, conducted for the UNT Foundation Oral History Project. She discusses her childhood and education in Denison, Texas, and at Grayson College, Southern Oklahoma University, and UNT; career as a Certified Public Accountant; work with the UNT comptroller’s office and the UNT Foundation.
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Date: July 26, 2012
Creator: Kilgore, Deborah K. & Heiman, Ginger
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Catalog of the University of North Texas, 2012-2013, Graduate

Description: The UNT Graduate Bulletin includes information about class offerings as well as "policies, regulations, procedures and fees in effect at the time [the] publication went to press"
Date: July 2012
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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