Clemson University Press Partners with Longleaf Services
Health Science Major Wins Clemson Libraries Undergraduate Research Award
review project,” Morgan wrote in her award application. “Having access to both the online databases for finding articles and the helpful library staff allowed me to better create a body of work in accordance to how research is traditionally conducted in the field of public health.” The second-place winners were Claire Bardell, marketing major; Danielle Haley, Mia Ricottilli, Caroline Strinsky and Honors College student Shreya Tellur, psychology majors; and Jack Patterson and Kendalle Quast, health science majors, for their project “What is Well-Being? A Systematic Review.” Their project examined how researchers define “well-being,” specifically for people in the workplace. They used the Libraries to explore and find databases and peer-reviewed articles and also checked out articles via Interlibrary Loan. Their project was completed as part of Creative Inquiry, Clemson’s cross-disciplinary undergraduate research program. Third place went to Evan Jackson, a double major in religious studies and history, for his project “The Church and Its Emperor: Examining how the Fourth Century Post-Nicene Trinitarian Controversy Reflected Constantius’ Educational Ideology and Personal Involvement.” His project was part of his Junior Research Colloquium class for religious studies and explored the connections between the political influence of the Roman Empire and theological development in the imperial church. He accessed online sources through the Libraries’ website and checked out a book through PASCAL, South Carolina’s academic library consortium. He also was assisted by Ed Rock, research librarian for philosophy and religion. This marks the second year of the Libraries’ Undergraduate Research Award. The first-place winner received an award of $1,000, with $750 going to second place and $500 going to third place. The recipients’ research projects will be made available in TigerPrints, Clemson’s digital repository.
Clemson University Press is partnering with Longleaf Services to provide fulfillment and publishing services. The partnership means that sales, distribution and fulfillment will be provided by Longleaf, which will allow the Press staff to focus on its mission of publishing diverse and impactful scholarship. “I’m so pleased that we’ve partnered with Longleaf Services,” said Alison Mero, director of the Press. “Clemson University Press is going to benefit immensely from their distribution, fulfilment and sales support. Longleaf will give us a much greater reach with our books and will let us grow our publishing program.” In recent years, the Press has gone from publishing two or three books per year to 20 to 30 books and journal issues annually. “It’s not uncommon for a small press to get to the point where taking care of the nuts and bolts of publishing – packing and shipping, pushing out metadata, other necessary tasks – really begins to hinder their ability to perform their mission of publishing good scholarship,” said Longleaf Services CEO Clay Farr. “We do everything that presses shouldn’t have to be good at in order to disseminate the publication of scholarly work.” Mero said the partnership will allow Clemson University Press to “operate like a bigger press,” and should increase revenue and raise the profile of the Press.
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Mackenzie Morgan, a senior majoring in health science, received the first place Undergraduate Research Award from Clemson Libraries. The award recognizes students who make use of library resources and services to produce outstanding research or scholarly or creative works. Morgan’s research project was titled “The Relationship Between Peripheral Arterial Disease and Chronic Kidney Disease and the Ethnic and Racial Disparities that Exist in Medication Prescription and Outcomes” and was completed as part of the Departmental Honors Research Program. She is a student in the Clemson University Honors College. In the course of her research, Morgan made use of several databases available through the Libraries, as well as the online research guide for the public health sciences department. She also met with Sally Smith, the research librarian for public health sciences, who helped Morgan narrow down her search parameters so she could find the resources she needed for her project. “Clemson Libraries services and staff were essential in the successful completion of my preliminary version of a systematic
• 17 books and journal issues published • 12 books contracted • 3 new journals added to portfolio • 141,869 journal articles downloaded • 1,098,968 downloads from TigerPrints
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