O*NET

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May 232013
 

The O*NET acronym stands for “Occupational Information Network.” It is an automated database that replaces the Dictionary of Occupational Titles ( DOT) as the nation’s primary source of occupational information. The O*NET information is available as a timely, easy-to-use database that is designed to help millions of employers, workers, educators, and students make informed decisions about education, training, career choices, and work. The O*NET database contains information about work attributes (e.g., skills and abilities), and can be accessed via O*NET Online at http://online.onetcenter.org.

FAQ for Occupation Experts

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May 162013
 

Orchestrating Human-Centered Design by Guy André Boy 2013

Orchestrating Human-Centered Design

  • Guy André Boy has over 30 years experience in the field of human-centered design
  • Contains reflections and real-world examples from practice in both industry and academia
  • Human-centered design is a necessary approach to modern engineering design

The time has come to move into a more humanistic approach of technology and to understand where our world is moving to in the early twenty-first century. The design and development of our future products needs to be orchestrated, whether they be conceptual, technical or organizational. Orchestrating Human-Centered Design presents an Orchestra model that attempts to articulate technology, organizations and people. Human-centered design (HCD) should not be limited to local/short-term/linear engineering, but actively focus on global/long-term/non-linear design, and constantly identify emergent properties from the use of artifacts.

Orchestrating Human-Centered Design results from incremental syntheses of courses the author has given at the Florida Institute of Technology in the HCD PhD program. It is focused on technological and philosophical concepts that high-level managers, technicians and all those interested in the design of artifacts should consider. Our growing software -intensive world imposes better knowledge on cognitive engineering, life-critical systems, complexity analysis, organizational design and management, modeling and simulation, and advanced interaction media, and this well-constructed and informative book provides a road map for this.

DSM V

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May 072013
 

The new DSM V is scheduled to be released May 2013.  The library has preordered print copies, and they should be available early June.  DSM V will be released online in Fall 2013 as part of Psychiatry Online .

DSM_5

Open Access Publishing Fund

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Apr 082013
 

Open Access Publishing Fund

The University Libraries offers financial support to eligible members of the Mason community to off-set the costs of publishing in scholarly open access (OA) journals that charge author fees. Complete and submit the Open Access Publishing Fund (OAP Fund) application on the University Libraries’ website to apply for funds. Please read the journal eligibility requirements before applying. Contact Claudia Holland (chollan3@gmu.edu) with any questions.

 

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Sep 172010
 


All of the APA databases are now available on the APA PsycNET platform. You can search the databases- PsycInfo, PsycArticles, PsycBooks, and PsycExtra- individually or all at once.

Welcome to the I/O Psychology Research Portal

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May 062009
 

Hello,

While the I/O Portal is under construction, I welcome your feedback regarding what types of tools and resources you would like to see included.

The idea is that this portal would be your departments “go to” page for digital scholarly resources and, while I will be the manager of the site, the content will be driven by its users.

To give you some ideas regarding what we can include, here is a link to portals which have already been created: Research Portals

In the near future, I hope to have several mechanisms in place through which you could provide feedback and suggestions. In the meantime, please email those ideas to me abaruzzi@gmu.edu.

Best,
Andrea Baruzzi
Psychology Liaison Librarian