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About the Collection
Starting in 2018, the UNLV University Libraries began to provide funding to support UNLV researchers seeking to publish in fully open access journals that required payment of article processing charges (APCs). With initial support from the Library Advisory Board, the Collections, Interlibrary Loan, and Acquisitions (CIA) and Scholarly Communication & Data Services (SCADS) departments partnered to fund and manage the awards.
In 2020, the Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) Student Council, created a similar fund for graduate students in collaboration with the University Libraries. While the MSI fund has since retired, the Graduate and Professional Association (GPSA) now provides a fund for graduate and professional students.
In 2022 the School of Medicine Library (SOML) began a pilot fund to support UNLV Faculty, Residents, and Fellows located at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine.
For fund status, application criteria, and application instructions for any of the currently available funds, visit the Open Access Guide.
Submissions from 2025
Leveraging Substitute Teachers as Educational Leaders, Marcedes Butler
Social Jetlag Alters Markers of Exercise-Induced Mitochondrial Adaptations in the Heart, Michael B. Dial, Elias M. Malek, Austin R. Cooper, Greco A. Neblina, Nikoleta I. Vasileva, and Graham McGinnis
Submissions from 2024
Projected Climate Change Impacts on the Number of Dry and Very Heavy Precipitation Days by Century’s End: A Case Study of Iran’s Metropolises, Rasoul Asfari, Mohammad Nazari-Sharabian, Ali Hosseini, and Moses Karakouzian
A Systematic Study of Planetary Envelope Growth with 3D Radiation-Hydrodynamics Simulations, Avery Bailey, James M. Stone, and Jeffrey Fung
Disruption of the OsWRKY71 Transcription Factor Gene Results in Early Rice Seed Germination Under Normal and Cold Stress Conditions, Santiago Bataller, James A. Davis, Lingkun Gu, Sophia Baca, Gaelan Chen, Azeem Majid, Anne J. Villacastin, Dylan Barth, Mira V. Han, Paul J. Rushton, and Qingxi J. Shen
The Effects of Torso-Borne Loads on Functional Movement Patterns, Kathryn S. Bell, Jasmine D. Brooks, Kara N. Radzak, Sean W. Mulvenon, and Brian K. Schilling
Piezochromic Behavior of 2,4,6-Triphenylpyrylium Tetrachloroferrate, Princess Canasa, David King, Petrika Cifligu, Adrian F. Lua Sanchez, Si L. Chen, Haesook Han, Trimaan Malik, Brant Billinghurst, Jianbao Zhao, Changyong Park, George R. Rossman, Michael Pravica, Pradip K. Bhowmik, and Egor Evlyukhin
Using Item Response Theory to Identify Key Symptoms of Insomnia in a Sample of University Students With Probable Eating Disorders, Kara A. Christensen Pacella, Brianne N. Richson, Nicole A. Short, Angeline R. Bottera, Leah A. Irish, Victoria L. Perko, and Kelsie T. Forbush
Shifting Employment and Perceptions of Household Responsibilities During Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nevada, USA, Courtney Coughenour, Lung-Chang Chien, Brian Labus, Maxim Gakh, and Pashtana Usufzy
Development of an Anisotropic Hyperelastic Material Model for Porcine Colorectal Tissues, Youssef Fahmy, Mohamed B. Trabia, Brian Ward, Lucas Gallup, and Mary Froehlich
Torture and Its Sequelae Among Prostituted Women in the United States, Melissa Farley and M. Alexis Kennedy
Fe-Rich X-Ray Amorphous Material Records Past Climate and Persistence of Water on Mars, Anthony D. Feldman, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, Elizabeth B. Rampe, Valerie Tu, Tanya S. Peretyazhko, Christopher DeFelice, and Thomas Sharp
What Works when Working Together?: Cross-Sector Collaboration Barriers & Facilitators of a Built Environment Health Impact Assessment in Southern Nevada, Maxim Gakh, Courtney Coughenour, Bertille Assoumou, Emily C. Strickler, Timothy J. Bungum, Jennifer R. Pharr, Pashtana Usufzy, Megan McDonough, Nicole Williams Bungum, and Mindy Meacham
Facile One-Pot Synthesis and Anti-Microbial Activity of Novel 1,4-Dihydropyridine Derivatives in Aqueous Micellar Solution under Microwave Irradiation, Asmita Goswami, Navneet Kaur, Manvinder Kaur, Kishanpal Singh, Harvinder Singh Sohal, Haesook Han, and Pradip K. Bhowmik
Exploring the Use of Bimodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Enhance Movement in Individuals with Patellofemoral Pain—A Sham-Controlled Double Blinded Pilot Study, Kai-Yu Ho, Connan Wallace, Jeno Aquino, Bryce Broadwell, Makenzie Whimple, and Jing Nong Liang
“Educational Facials”: A Healing Tool for the Beautiful Struggle, Kari Kokka and Michelle Cody
Predicting Homelessness: Housing Risk Insights From Latent Class Analysis, Katherine E. Marcal and Nicholas Barr
Fluid Flow, Mineralization and Deformation in an Oceanic Detachment Fault: Microtextural, Geochemical and Isotopic Evidence From Pyrite at 13°30′N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Andrew J. Martin, John W. Jamieson, Sven Petersen, Mostafa Fayek, and Javier Escartin
Demographic Correlates of Weight-Loss Strategies in US Adults: Cross-Sectional Analysis of NHANES Data 2017–2020, Anin Mokari-Yamchi and Richard R. Rosenkranz
Genome-Guided Isolation of the Hyperthermophilic Aerobe Fervidibacter sacchari Reveals Conserved Polysaccharide Metabolism in the Armatimonadota, Nancy O. Nou, Jonathan K. Covington, Dengxun Lai, Xavier Mayali, Cale O. Seymour, Juliet Johnston, Jian-Yu Jiao, Steffen Buessecker, Damon Mosier, Alise R. Muok, Nicole Torosian, Allison M. Cook, Ariane Briegel, Tanja Woyke, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Nicole Shapiro, Scott G. Bryan, Savannah Sleezer, Joshua Dimapilis, Cristina Gonzalez, Lizett Gonzalez, Marlene Noriega, Matthias Hess, Ross P. Carlson, Lan Liu, Meng-Meng Li, Zheng-Han Lian, Siqii Zhu, Fan Liu, Xian Sun, Beile Gao, Ritesh Mewalal, Miranda Harmon-Smith, Ian K. Blaby, Jan-Fang Cheng, Peter K. Weber, Gabriela Grigorean, Wen-Jun Li, Anne E. Dekas, Jennifer E. Pett-Ridge, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, Marike Palmer, and Brian P. Hedlund
Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Dynamic Balance Among Young Adults in the Community, Jinyoung Park, Cynthia Lee, Ye Eun Nam, and Hyunhwa Lee
Climate and Gypsum Parent Material Shape Biocrust Communities and Moss Ecology in the Chihuahuan and Mojave Deserts, Nicole Pietrasiak, Katelyn G. Gobbie, Brian Jusko, and Rebecca E. Drenovsky
Aging-Related Changes in the Mechanical Properties of Single Cells, Amarnath Singam, Chandrabali Bhattacharya, and Seungman Park
Personalized Nutrition: Tailoring Dietary Recommendations through Genetic Insights, Saiful Singar, Ravinder Nagpal, Bahram H. Arjmandi, and Neda S. Akhavan
Developing a Remote Gamma-Ray Spectra Collection System (RGSCS) by Coupling a High Purity Germanium (HPGe) Detector With a Cosmicguard Background Reduction Device, Zaijing Sun, Krishnakumar Divakar Nangeelil, and Haven Searcy
mHealth Intervention for Elevated Blood Pressure Among College Students: Single-Arm Intervention Study, Dieu-My T. Tran, Catherine E. Dingley, and Roger Bonilla
Does Physician-Hospital Vertical Integration Affect Hospital Output?, Soumya Upadhyay and Neeraj Bhandari
Patient–Provider Communication Quality: Socioeconomic Disparities in Smoking Outcomes, Soumya Upadhyay and Jalen Jones
Submissions from 2023
Food Insecurity and Risky Sexual Behaviors Among College Students During The COVID-19 Pandemic, Bertille Assoumou, Jennifer Pharr, and Courtney Coughenour
Comparative Nutritional Assessment and Metabolomics of a WRKY Rice Mutant with Enhanced Germination Rates, Santiago Bataller, Anne J. Villacastin, Qingxi J. Shen, and Christine Bergman
An Assessment of the Move Your Way Program Among Hispanic Adults in Las Vegas, Nevada, Timothy J. Bungum, Jennifer R. Pharr, Courtney A. Coughenour, and Maxim Gakh
Evaluating The Potential of Geopolymer Concrete as A Sustainable Alternative for Thin White-Topping Pavement, Sathvik S. Chandra, Pshtiwan Shakor, Sarwar Mohmmad, Bankole O. Awuzie, Atul K. Singh, Abishek Rauniyar, and M Karakouzian
Survey of Transfer Learning Approaches in the Machine Learning of Digital Health Sensing Data, Lina Chato and Emma Regentova
Initial Examination of the Mental Health Disorders: Screening Instrument for Athletes, Brad C. Donohue, Jesse Scott, Grace Goodwin, Kimberly Barchard, Greg Bohall, and Daniel N. Allen
Synecological Response of Spring Benthic Prokaryotes and Macroinvertebrates to Paleozoic Roof Pendant-Derived Calcium, Ariel D. Friel, Khaled Pordel, Zachary Meyers, Cale O. Seymour, Nicole J. Thomas, Fred M. Philips, Jeffrey R. Knott, Donald W. Sada, Laura Rademacher, Marty Frisbee, and Brian P. Hedlund
Payments Transaction Data from Online Casino Players and Online Sports Bettors, Kasra Ghaharian, Piyush Puranik, Brett Abarbanel, Kazem Taghva, Shane W. Kraus, Ashok Singh, Alan Feldman, and Bo Bernhard
A Scoping Review of Risk and Protective Factors for Negative Cannabis Use Consequences, Timothy J. Grigsby, Andrea Lopez, Larisa Albers, Christopher J. Rogers, and Myriam Forster
Adaptation In the Sensory Cortex Drives Bistable Switching During Auditory Stream Segregation, Nathan C. Higgins, Alexandra N. Scurry, Fang Jiang, David F. Little, Mounya Elhilali, and Joel S. Snyder
Analyzing Aberrant DNA Methylation in Colorectal Cancer Uncovered Intangible Heterogeneity of Gene Effects in the Survival Time of Patients, Saeedeh Hajebi Khaniki, Farhad Shokoohi, Habibollah Esmaily, and Mohammad Amin Kerachian
What’s inside the Mind of a CEO? The Effects of Discretionary Slack Resources on R&D Investment, Seunghye Lee, Won-Yong Oh, and Young K. Chang
The High Pressure Dependence of X-Ray Induced Decomposition of Cadmium Oxalate, Adrian F. Lua Sanchez, Petrika Cifligu, Marc Graff, Michael Pravica, Pradip K. Bhowmik, Changyong Park, and Egor Evlyukhin
Zagamiite, CaAl2Si3.5O11, the Hexagonal High-Pressure CAS Phase with Dominant Si, as a Mineral from Mars, Chi Ma, Oliver Tschauner, John R. Beckett, Eran Greenberg, and Vitali B. Prakapenka
Social Interaction, Support Preferences, and the Use of Wearable Health Trackers, Natalie Pennington and Linda Dam
Opportunities for Maximizing the Dietary Quality of Fad Diets, Jessica M. Phelan, Jillian M. Joyce, Katherine Bode, and Sara K. Rosenkranz
Holistic Framework to Contextualize Dietary Quality Assessment: A Critical Review, Jessica M. Phelan, Richard R. Rosenkranz, Connor J. Phelan, and Sara K. Rosenkranz
Sport And Mental Health Performance Optimization in An Adolescent Gymnast: A Case Evaluation, Davy Phrathep, Brad C. Donohue, Brenna N. Renn, John Mercer Dr., and Daniel N. Allen
Socio-Demographic, Maternal, And Infant Characteristics Associated with Pacifier Use Among Six-Months Old Infants in Clark County, Nevada, Kaelia Lynn Saniatan, Smriti Neupane, Chad L. Cross, and Gabriela S. Buccini
The Forgotten Language Skill: Finding a Prominent Place for Listening in Meaningful Programming for Multilingual Learners with Learning Disabilities, Tracy Griffin Spies
Descriptive and Network Post-Occupancy Evaluation of the Urban Public Space through Social Media: A Case Study of Bryant Park, NY, Bo Zhang, Yang Song, Dingyi Liu, Zhongzhong Zeng, Shuying Guo, Qiuyi Yang, Yuhan Wen, Wenji Wang, and Xiwei Shen
Submissions from 2022
Beyond Functional Diversity: The Importance of Trophic Position to Understanding Functional Processes in Community Evolution, Roxanne M. W. Banker, Ashley A. Dineen, Melanie G. Sorman, Carrie L. Tyler, and Peter D. Roopnarine
Flow Characteristics through Granular Soil Influenced by Saline Water Intrusion: A Laboratory Investigation, Sudip Basack, Ghritartha Goswami, Hadi Khabbaz, and M Karakouzian
The Effect of Exercise Modality on Age-related Changes Observed During Running, Brianne Borgia, Janet S. Dufek, Kara N. Radzak, and Julia Freedman Silvernail
Profit or Purpose: What Increases Medical Doctors’ Job Satisfaction?, Young Kyun Chang, Won-Yong Oh, and Sanghee Han
A Design Framework of Exploration, Segmentation, Navigation, and Instruction (ESNI) for the Lifecycle of Intelligent Mobile Agents as a Method for Mapping an Unknown Built Environment, Junchi Chu, Xueyun Tang, and Xiwei Shen
Digitally Predicting Protein Localization and Manipulating Protein Activity in Fluorescence Images Using 4D Reslicing GAN, Yang Jiao, Lingkun Gu, Yingtao Jiang, Mo Weng, and Mei Yang
The Impact of High-Intensity Interval Training on Vascular Function in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Mousa Khalafi, Mohammad Hossein Sakhaei, Fatemeh Kazeminasab, Michael E. Symonds, and Sara K. Rosenkranz
Mechanisms of Memory Updating: State Dependency vs. Reconsolidation, Christopher Kiley and Colleen M. Parks
Spatial Deconcentration of Tourism Concentrations: A Visitors’ Galaxy Impact Model of the COVID-19 Crisis, Jaewon Lim, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, and Christopher Stream
Racism and Resilience: Counter-Narratives of Asian International College Students in the Age of COVID-19, Katrina Liu, Richard Miller, Sharolyn D. Pollard-Durodola, and Lei Ping
How Dynamic Adsorption Controls Surfactant‑enhanced Boiling, Mario R. Mata, Brandon Ortiz, Dhruv Luhar, Vesper Evereux, and H. Jeremy Cho
Chronotype and Social Jetlag Influence Performance and Injury during Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Physical Training, Graham McGinnis, Shani T. Thompson, Charli D. Aguilar, Michael B. Dial, richard tandy, and Kara N. Radzak
Auditory Affective Processing, Musicality, and the Development of Misophonic Reactions, Solena Mednicoff, Sivan Barashy, Destiny Gonzales, Stephen D. Benning, Joel S. Snyder, and Erin Hannon
Quantification of Organic Carbon Sequestered by Biogenic Iron Sulfide Minerals in Long-Term Anoxic Laboratory Incubations, Nader Nabeh, Cheyenne Brokaw, and Aude Picard
Broadened Possibilities: Undocumented Community College Student Course Enrollment After the California DREAM Act, Federick Ngo and Juanita K. Hinojosa
Topical Analysis of Nuclear Experts' Perceptions of Publics, Nuclear Energy, and Sustainable Futures, Hannah K. Patenaude and Emma Frances Bloomfield
Air Quality Health Benefits of the Nevada Renewable Portfolio Standard, Alireza Rezaee, Lung-Wen Chen, Ge Lin, Mark P. Buttner, Max Gakh, and Emma Frances Bloomfield
An Approach for Material Model Identification of a Composite Coating Using Micro-Indentation and Multi-Scale Simulations, Pouya Shojaei, Riccardo Scazzosi, Mohamed Trabia, Brendan O’toole, Marco Giglio, Xing Zhang, Yiliang Liao, and Andrea Manes
Social Justice Leadership: Coming to Know Another Possibility through Autoethnography, Jacob D. Skousen
A Qualitative Analysis of the Impact of Electronic Health Records (EHR) on Healthcare Quality and Safety: Clinicians’ Lived Experiences, Soumya Upadhyay and Han-fen Hu
Exosomal Microrna Differential Expression in Plasma of Young Adults With Chronic Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Healthy Control, Rany Vorn, Maiko Suarez, Jacob C. White, Carina A. Martin, Hyung Suk Kim, Chen Lai, Sijung Yun, Jessica M. Gill, and Hyunhwa Lee
PM Me the Truth? The Conditional Effectiveness of Fact-Checks Across Social Media Sites, Austin Horng-En Wang
The Slow Violence of Racism on Asian Americans During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Aldo Barrita, Anthony King, and Michelle Strong
Artificial Intelligence in the Radiomic Analysis of Glioblastomas: A Review, Taxonomy, and Perspective, Ming Zhu, Sijia Li, Yu Kuang, Virginia B. Hill, Amy B. Heimberger, Lijie Zhai, and Shenjie Zhai
Submissions from 2021
Menu Engineering and Dietary Behavior Impact on Young Adults’ Kilocalorie Choice, Christine Bergman, Yuan Tian, Andrew Moreo, and Carola Raab
Machine Learning and Radiomic Features to Predict Overall Survival Time for Glioblastoma Patients, Lina Chato and Shahram Latifi
Behavioral Arrest and a Characteristic Slow Waveform Are Hallmark Responses to Selective 5-HT2A Receptor Activation, April Contreras, Matthew Khumnark, Rochelle M. Hines, and Dustin J. Hines
Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Behavior Among Asian Americans: A Thematic Analysis, Chia Liang Dai, Manoj Sharma, Taj Haider, and Hema Sunchu
Resetting of Auditory and Visual Segregation Occurs After Transient Stimuli of the Same Modality, Nathan C. Higgins, Ambar G. Monjaras, Breanne D. Yerkes, David F. Little, Jessica E. Nave-Blodgett, Mounya Elhilali, and Joel S. Snyder
Universal Image Segmentation for Optical Identification of 2D Materials, Joshua Island, Randy M. Sterbentz, and Kristine L. Haley
Mechanical Characteristics of Cement Paste in the Presence of Carbon Nanotubes and Silica Oxide Nanoparticles: An Experimental Study, Moses Karakouzian, Visar Farhangi, Marzieh R. Farani, Alireza Joshaghani, Mehdi Zadehmohamad, and Mohammad Ahmadzadeh
Impact of Neoantigen Expression and T-Cell Activation on Breast Cancer Survival, Wenjing Li, Amei Amei, Francis Bui, Saba Norouzifar, Lingeng Lu, and Zuoheng Wang
Equation of State for Natural Almandine, Spessartine, Pyrope Garnet: Implications for Quartz-In-Garnet Elastic Geobarometry, Suzanne R. Mulligan, Elissaios Stavrou, Stella Chariton, Oliver Tschauner, Ashkan Salamat, Michael Wells, Alexander G. Smith, Thomas D. Hoisch, and Vitali Prakapenka
Communication outside of the Home through Social Media during COVID-19, Natalie Pennington
Seasonal Impact in Admissions and Burn Profiles in a Desert Burn Unit, Syed F. Saquib, Joseph T. Carroll, and Paul J. Chestovich
Can the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change Explain the Intent for People to Practice Meditation?, Manoj Sharma, Matthew Asare, Ram Lakhan, Amar Kanekar, Vinayak K. Nahar, and Sheniz Moonie PhD
Impervious Surfaces Mapping at City Scale by Fusion of Radar and Optical Data Through a Random Forest Classifier, Binita Shrestha, Haroon Stephen, and Sajjad Ahmad
The Assessment of Physical Risk Taking: Preliminary Construct Validation of a New Behavioral Measure, Edward A. Smith and Stephen D. Benning
Memorial Parking Trees: Resilient Modular Design with Nature-Based Solutions in Vulnerable Urban Areas, Haroon Stephen and Fortino Acosta
Risk Factors Associated With Cardiovascular Disease Among Adult Nevadans, Dieu My T. Tran, Nirmala Lekhak, Karen Gutierrez, and Sheniz Moonie
From Cell Death to Regeneration: Rebuilding After Injury, Kelly Tseng, Dylan Guerin, and Cindy Kha
Altered Theta Rhythm and Hippocampal-Cortical Interactions Underlie Working Memory Deficits in a Hyperglycemia Risk Factor Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Ryan A. Wirt, Lauren A. Crew, Andrew A. Ortiz, Adam M. McNeela, Emmanuel Flores, Jefferson W. Kinney, and James M. Hyman
Exploring Sources of Engineering Teaching Self-Efficacy for Pre-Service Elementary Teachers, Ezgi Yesilyurt, Hasan Deniz, and Erdogan Kaya
Submissions from 2020
Spatial Analyses of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Its Responsiveness to Labor Market Performance and Policies during the 2008 Recession, Vicky Albert and Jaewon Lim
Regulation of GABAA Receptor Subunit Expression in Substance Use Disorders, Jeffrey S. Barker and Rochelle M. Hines
Unmanned Aerial System Integrated Sensor for Remote Gamma and Neutron Monitoring, Alexander Barzilov and Monia Kazemeini
A Comparison of Two Techniques for Center of Pressure Measurements, Jessica DeBerardinis, Conner Neilsen, Daniel E. Lidstone, Janet S. Dufek, and Mohamed B. Trabia
Internalizing Symptoms as Predictors of School Absenteeism Severity at Multiple Levels: Ensemble and Classification and Regression Tree Analysis, Mirae J. Fornander and Christopher A. Kearney
Future Availability of Non-renewable Metal Resources and the Influence of Environmental, Social, and Governance Conflicts on Metal Production, Simon Jowitt, Gavin M. Mudd, and John F.H. Thompson
The School Climate and Academic Mindset Inventory (SCAMI): Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Invariance Across Demographic Groups, Christopher A. Kearney, Ricardo Sanmartin, and Carolina Gonzalvez
The Rural-Urban Divide in Tanzania: Residential Context and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Maternal Health Care Utilization, Neema Langa and Tirth Bhatta