Scholarly Communication

Scholarly Communication and Publishing: It’s History, Trends, Issues and the Academic Librarian’s Role in It All

by Stephanie Mangiacotti

Maximum Museum: Digital Images, Licensing, and the Future of Museums

by Christine Kuan

American Association of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting 2012

Today, as organizations grapple with the global economic crisis and the emergence of new technologies that upend our... more Today, as organizations grapple with the global economic crisis and the emergence of new technologies that upend our traditional sustainability models, access to images is at the center of the museum debate. Unlike any other field, images are absolutely essential to art historical education, teaching, research, curatorial work, and publication. Now more than ever, museums have the unprecedented power to serve as “mentors” to the public by reorienting image policies to maximize the ways we engage with our audiences, and ultimately, to grow our impact.

Repository Services for Students, Faculty, and Research Administration

by Susan Matveyeva

Presented at the Kansas Library Association Annual Conference, Wichita, KS, April 12, 2012

nstitutional repository services are a fast growing new academic library service. Unlike other library services... more nstitutional repository services are a fast growing new academic library service. Unlike other library services focused on delivering information created elsewhere, institutional repository services concentrate on collecting, organizing, and providing access to information created in the university or college that an academic library serves. Having students, faculty, and university / college administration as its stakeholders, the institutional repository develops services for each group. The presentation will provide a detailed description of major institutional repository programs and outlines a comprehensive and focused strategy for the institutional repository development. Based on experiences of a repository manager.

Some bibliographic practices in interdisciplinary work: Accounting for citations in library and information science.

by Andrew Carlin

Published in Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance 2003, 10(1): 27-45.
DOI: 10.1080/08989620300501

Interdisciplinary studies involve the use of concepts, methods and theories developed in other disciplines. Using... more Interdisciplinary studies involve the use of concepts, methods and theories developed in other disciplines. Using sociology and library and information science as researchable fields, this paper examines how interdisciplinary presentations appropriate discipline-specific concepts. Itemizing materials in a bibliography is a claim to familiarity with the content of those materials. Bibliographic anomalies are apparent in papers by Elfreda Chatman, published in library and information science journals. Misspellings and disjunctive uses of material suggests that Chatman is unfamiliar with the literature bases she invokes. Working through texts and accompanying bibliographies, this article shows how the entailments of research programs that Chatman claims to use can be reflected back onto her own work. The article provides suggestions on how to make interdisciplinary studies more accountable to academic communities.

Leading dental journals availability through academic network of Serbia

by Jelena Jacimovic

A citation analysis of Serbian Dental Journal using Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar

by Jelena Jacimovic

What the library did next: strengthening our visibility in research support

by Rebecca Parker

In Proceedings of 'eM-powering eFutures', the 16th Biennial VALA Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 06-09 February 2012

Academic libraries have a long and proud history of supporting teaching and learning in universities. However, there... more Academic libraries have a long and proud history of supporting teaching and learning in universities. However, there is growing recognition that supporting research in line with their universities' expectations requires new approaches and different skills from librarians. Many Australian university libraries are now appointing specialised research librarians to take on these challenges. In this paper, we show the scope for libraries to commit to developing new customer-focussed services for researchers that ensure the importance of the academic library to institutional research, while taking into account stakeholder needs and organisational expectations.

Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Developing Hybrid Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences

by Andrea Scharnhorst

Jankowski, Nicholas Warren, Scharnhorst, Andrea, Tatum, Clifford and Tatum, Zuorian, Enhancing Scholarly Publications: Developing Hybrid Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences (January 10, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1982380 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1982380

Enhancing publications has a long history but is gaining acceleration as authors and publishers explore electronic... more Enhancing publications has a long history but is gaining acceleration as authors and publishers explore electronic tablets as devices for dissemination and presentation. Enhancement of scholarly publications, in contrast, more often takes place in a Web environment and is coupled with presentation of supplementary materials related to research. The approach to enhancing scholarly publications presented in this article goes a step further and involves the interlinking of the “objects” of a document: datasets, supplementary materials, secondary analyses, and post-publication interventions. This approach connects the user-centricity of Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web. It aims at facilitating long-term content structure through standardized formats intended to improve interoperability between concepts and terms within and across knowledge domains. We explored this conception of enhancement on a small set of books prepared for traditional academic publishers. While the project was primarily an exercise in development, the conclusion section of the article reflects on areas where conceptual and empirical studies could be initiated to complement this new direction in scholarly publishing.

New evidence on the interoperability of information systems within UK universities

by Kathleen Menzies

Saadiyah Darus and Abdul Muhaimin Abdullah. (2012). Automated Document Analyser for Screening of Journal Articles. Journal of Scholarly Publishing. Volume 43, Issue 2, pp. 188-199.

by Saadiyah Darus

Published by University of Toronto Press.

The screening process of journal articles, done to determine the suitability for publication, is presently done... more The screening process of journal articles, done to determine the suitability for publication, is presently done manually. The chief editor or an assistant will read and check the submitted articles against some standard criteria of the journal. With the increase in the number of submissions, this task becomes a burden, which in turn causes delays in giving initial feedback to the authors. The objective of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of an automated document analyser that can be used by editors for initial screening of journal articles. This analyser was developed so that it can be used within a Microsoft Word environment via VBA macros. The current version of the software can determine the length of the title, information about author(s), the length of the abstract, number of keywords, the number of words in the content, the presence or absence of an acknowledgement, and whether a specific journal is cited in the article.

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'The Academic Library and Democratic Development in the Knowledge Society: the changing role of a classical knowledge institution'

by jori van cranenburgh

Open Their Eyes: How the Open Access Movement has Changed the Scholarly Publishing World for Academics, 2009

by Margaret Driscoll

The FUP Credibility: a user satisfaction survey, 2001

by Lucia Bertini

Working with Words—--Editing and Editage

by Abhishek Goel

Current issues in research communications: Adding value and sharing research-3rd report to JISC, December 2010

by Willow Fuchs

Hubbard, Bill and Hodgson, Amanda and Fuchs, Willow (2010) Current issues in research communications: adding value and sharing research - 3rd report to JISC, December 2010. Project Report. Centre for Research Communications.

This report looks at the scope of current OA practice and the opportunities it offers for innovation in scholarly... more This report looks at the scope of current OA practice and the opportunities it offers for innovation in scholarly communication methods. Among the questions it discusses are:
• Why are some researchers still reluctant to embrace open access?
• What kinds of "added value" in scholarly communication can be attached to open access?
• What is the significance for scholarly communications practice of the growth of social networking/reference management systems such as Mendeley?

Transformation of the Identities of Nonnative English-Speaking Scientists as a Consequence of the Social Construction of Revision.

by Karen Englander

Mesolithic Europe a Historiographic Basis: The impact of media, research cultures and international collaboration on Mesolithic studies: past, present and future

by Pat Hadley

Dissertation presented in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Mesolithic Studies
Department of Archaeology, University of York September 2010

This project examines the effects of media technologies, research cultures, organisations and internationalism on... more This project examines the effects of media technologies, research cultures, organisations and internationalism on research output and research process. Specifically, it examines the Mesolithic studies community and its origins and how Mesolithic studies researchers communicate, collaborate and share information. The project focuses on the serial publication Mesolithic Miscellany. It assesses the potential of Web 2.0 technologies to the Mesolithic studies community as tools for formal dissemination (research output) and informal discussion and collaboration (aspects of research process).

New ICE science journals break traditional boundaries to inspire new thinking

by Victoria Rae

Published in Proceedings of the ICE - Civil Engineering, Volume 164, Issue 3, 2011. 10.1680/cien.2011.164.3.101

The Institution of Civil Engineers is launching a major new series of bi-monthly science journals next year to help... more The Institution of Civil Engineers is launching a major new series of bi-monthly science journals next year to help promote and share innovative research at the boundaries between science and engineering.

Internationality of Academic Journals: A Case Study on RELIEVE.[Internacionalidad De Las Revistas Académicas: Estudio De Caso Con RELIEVE]

by Francisco Aliaga