Marilia Antúnez

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Rank: Assistant Professor of Bibliography
Title: Life & Allied Health Sciences Librarian, Fellow, Institute for Life-Span Development & Gerontology
Department: University Library Faculty
Office: ASEC 136
Phone: 330-972-6262
Email: mantunez@uakron.edu



Published Works:

2018

Librarian candidates’ frequent job changes can affect the probability of being hired. The aim of this study is to investigate the perspectives of library administrators and other librarians who had made hiring recommendations (e.g., served in search committees)...

2016

Background:
Gerontological nursing is a highly interdisciplinary specialty. English-language bibliometric research is scarce.
Objectives: Study gerontological nursing literature to identify journals useful for nurses and researchers working with older adults, help librarians assist gerontological...

2015

2015

This study investigates whether SCImago and/or JCR may complement the findings of manual citation mapping studies conducted on gerontological nursing journals in 1996-98 and 2008-2010 for two journals: Geriatric Nursing and Journal of Gerontological...

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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to identify resources essential gerontology (aging studies) resources and liaison strategies that provide guidance for academic librarians working with faculty and students in this highly interdisciplinary field.

Design/methodology/approach – A convenience sample of gerontology faculty was surveyed to identify important ...

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Increasingly higher numbers of older adults are returning to college campuses to earn degrees. Despite the recent economic recession and cuts to some state tuition waiver programs for older adults, many older students continue to pursue academic degrees on college campuses. Overwhelmingly, the literature that focuses on lifelong learning by older students has not incorporated degree-seeking students...

Bibliometric analysis of cited references; analyzed keywords, subject content, and authors to discern global issues of aging and collaborations of the articles published in three leading gerontological journals from 2008-2010.

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Also provided research assistance to radiologists attending the 2007, 2009, and 2010 RSNA Annual Conferences in English and Spanish.

2009

For 5 days in early September 2008, I, a science and allied health librarian, joined a medical mission in the northern coastal town of Limón, in Honduras, a developing country in Central America.