Officially titled The SU ADVANCE Library, the Open Group SU ADVANCE Zotero library is sorted into 12 categories or collections (which appear as folder icons in the library on the left side of the webpage). These categories allow users to narrow searches by identifying specific meta-topics of interest. These categories were created after initially gathering sources and creating an annotated bibliography outside of Zotero. We then created folders within our Zotero platform that corresponded to these twelve categories. “Open Group” in this case means the version of the library that anyone who visits the SU ADVANCE website and clicks on the library link can access.
The current categories/folders/collections are as follows:
- Materials and tools from NSF ADVANCE Programs;
- Assessments of faculty workload;
- Annual review processes and files;
- Tenure and promotion processes and portfolios;
- Tenure track vs. contract faculty;
- Faculty/staff/student characteristics that influence experiences in the academy;
- Employee/employer characteristics that influence experiences in the non-academic workplace;
- Literature based on Boyer’s educational models;
- Campus climate/Community well-being;
- Mission-based institutions of higher education;
- Organizational structure;
- Multi-paths to promotion in the academy.
Zotero has a general search feature that allows casual users to search the entire database for key words/phrases, authors, or titles. A single entry in the library will usually be included in several categories/folders. Quick searches show items whose authors, years, metadata, tags, or text content match the search terms and are performed from the Zotero toolbar at the top right-hand side of the library.
Additionally, all entries in the library are given tags to provide another method for users to search for relevant works within the database. The tags were generated after the creation of the library, again using the themes that emerged in the literature.
The current SU ADVANCE Library tags are as follows:
- ADVANCE
- Associate Professor
- BIPOC
- Campus Climate
- Community Engagement
- COVID-19
- Diversity
- Equity
- Faculty Support
- Faculty Workload
- Gender Bias
- Grant
- Hiring
- Institutional Transformation
- Intersectionality
- Intervention
- Job Satisfaction
- Leadership
- LGBTQ+
- Mentoring
- Mission-Based Institutions Networking
- Policy
- Promotion
- Racial Bias
- Retention
- Social, Behavioral, Economic Sciences
- STEM
- Tenure
- Toolkit
- Visibility
- Workshop
The home page of The SU ADVANCE Library shows the twelve categories/folders, the tags, and the first items in the library, sorted alphabetically by title, creator, and date modified, with user ability to alter the order of the sorting label.
