LibWorm: Bibliometrics

Visualizing changes over time: a history of information retrieval through the lens of descriptor tri-occurrence mapping

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:42:55 +0100

This study provides an historical analysis of the discipline of information retrieval (IR) for three time periods: 1980—1984, 1990—1994 and 2000—2004. This analysis is done through the use of a novel bibliometric technique called tri-occurrence analysis, in which the descriptor ‘information retrieval’ is used as a filter term within the traditional technique of co-occurrence analysis. The resulting data is visualized by means of Pathfinder Network analysis. The findings provide evidence of an evolution in the IR landscape over the three decades from an emphasis on systems-, storage- and education-related research in the 1980s to database-, user interface- and information service-related research in the 1990s and to web-related research in the 2000s. This work provides additional validation of the use of tri-occurrence analysis as a useful bibliometric technique. (Source: Journal of Information Science current issue)

Introducing the myri project - measuring your research impact (ireland)

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:45:58 +0100

Four Irish academic libraries are collaborating to produce online learning resources to support bibliometrics and research assessment awareness and training (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Scholarly publishing, bibliometrics: global map of science

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:21:54 +0100

The Latest Global Map of Science This Global Map of Science is based on research-front data for the six-year period ending in December 2009. The map shows the major subject areas within fields linked together in a network based on the same principles as our research-front maps showing highly cited papers. To create a map of science, we start with all research fronts in Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters, and compute the links between fronts based on how often they are co-cited—that is, the frequency that current papers jointly cite two given fronts. Successive applications of a clustering process then groups fronts into larger aggregates. Each circle on the map represents a cluster or aggregate of research fronts on a broad topic within that field. Annotations have been added to this map which represent the main research themes. These appear as labels attached to specific regions on the maps. Additional information about Research Fronts Other 2010 Maps + Nanoscience + Global Map of Science (March 2010) + Physics + Global Climate and Ecosystems Source: Thomson Reuters (Source: ResourceShelf)

Free access to editorial and book reviews: the july 2010 issue of learned information is now available

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:03:47 +0100

Updated/Repost: Sorry for the goof with the first attempt to share the info. Only the editorial and book reviews are available no charge. Other articles are available to members and via Ingenta (fee-based). The full text of Learned Information becomes free for everyone one year after publication. Learned Information, July 2010 (23.3) Direct to Table of Contents Editorial (Free) Why usage is useless Author: Singleton, Alan Case Study Gaining ISO 9001: the experience of Oxford Journals Author: Smith, Maxine Is it worth establishing institutional repositories? The strategies for open access to Spanish peer-reviewed articles Authors: Rodríguez-Armentia, Nerea; Amat, Carlos B. Research Article Embracing change: perceptions of e-journals by faculty members Authors: McClanahan, Kitty; Wu, Lei; Tenopir, Carol; King, Donald W. Case Study Knowing your users: the value of article database usage analysis Authors: Wan, Gang (Gary); Liu, Zao Research Article The quest for visibility of scientific journals in Latin America Authors: Estrada-Mejía, Catalina; Forero-Pineda, Clemente In defense of the reference: more than linking in evolving Web environments Author: Anderson-Wilk, Mark Article 50 million: an estimate of the number of scholarly articles in existence Author: Jinha, Arif E. Book Reviews (FREE) Report and Recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable Authors: Campbell, Bob; Willinsky, John; Anderson, Rick Evaluating Electronic Resource Programmes and Provision: Case Studies from Africa and Asia Author: Mlambo-Thata, Buhle Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis; from the Science Citation Index to Cybermetrics Author: Singleton, Alan The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More Author: Markwood, Priscilla S. Content Licensing: Buying and Selling Digital Resources Author: Albitz, Becky Measuring Academic Research: How to Undertake a Bibliometric Study Author: Craig, Iain D. ...

Proposal for citation analysis research (noting up)

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:40:45 +0100

Are any members of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries doing any recent bibliometric analysis of case law citation and noting up? I know of several such efforts in the past (see the Research Databank of their Committee to Promote Research). There is also of course the study done by Greg Wurzer, Aleksandra Zivanovic and Rhonda O’Neill (“Canadian Electronic Citators: An Evaluation of their Accuracy and Efficiency” (2004) 29 Can. L. Libraries Rev. 68) and various citator comparisons done by American colleagues a few years back in the Law Library Journal. However, I think the time has come with the maturity of CanLII to compare the scope and depth of its case law noter-upper with those on the various commercial databases. Anecdotally, for recent cases, I am finding that CanLII is very close in scope and depth to the major commercial services (however, since I have the luxury of being able to use commercial databases, I still noteup using the commercial services; I also find that the inclusion of secondary content in the citing references on Westlaw Canada to give them a huge advantage for now in this field). Currently, I am too busy (lazy?) to undertake such an analysis but would find it useful if someone were to carry out this research. (Source: Slaw)

Westlaw canada – added search features

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:30:21 +0100

Westlaw Canada has added some search features: 1) Did you mean? If you misspell your keywords in a search (e.g., “fiducary”), the system will prompt you to see if you meant the correctly spelled word (e.g., “fiduciary”). Interestingly enough, the misspelled “fiducary” still had 5 results which raises the issue if one should always truncate the term to “fid!” (this recalls a library school exercise I used to assign in the old days prior to there being online citators for UK cases – the exercise had students “note up” the famous Jarvis v. Swan Tours decision. I had one student that found one extra case because, for whatever reason, he had truncated “swan” and one of the decisions had it incorrectly with an extra “n”, as in “Swann”). The “Did you mean?” is likely a useful feature and is something Google users have come to expect (admit it, like me, you go to Google and type in a difficult word to check its spelling). 2) Add Related Terms. Simply typing in: > prompts the user with a small gray box of related terms (see screenshot below): Some of the additional terms offered are various synonyms or related concepts such as officer, board, agent (for the director concept) or obligation, fiduciary relationship or trustee (for the fiduciary concept). You then click on individual words or can (although unlikely) choose the “select all” to add the words to your search. However, care must be taken when adding any words to your search to ensure your search remains properly constructed. Overall, a useful feature but likely of most use to less experienced researchers. 3) Results Plus. ...

Two free bibliographic databases from ebsco: library, information science & technology abstracts & greenfile

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:28:11 +0100

A news release reminded us of something we’ve posted about in the past but had forgotten about. We hope they’re of interest and value. EBSCO provides free access (registration is not required) to one bibliographic database and another database bibliographic data and a limited amount of full text to open access publications. 1) LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. A thesaurus with 6,800 terms with 2,700 preferred terms is included as well as info on the 5000 most frequently indexed authors and the most used subject terms assigned to each author. You can access this BIBLIOGRAPHIC database using an easy to remember URL, http://www.libraryresearch.com. 2) GreenFILE GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. The database contains more than 530,000 records with access to more than 5,800 full text, open access articles. The URL for GreeFile is: www.greeninfoonline.com. (Source: ResourceShelf)

Conference presentation (slides): the impact factor of open access journals: data and yrends

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:35:06 +0100

Presentation By: Elena Giglia, University of Turin In ELPUB 2010 – Publishing in the networked world: Transforming the nature of communication, Helsinki (Finland), 16-18 June 2010 (via E-LIS) Access the Presentation (62 Slides; PDF) From an Abstract: This work is aimed at testing the most trational bibliometric indicator, Impact Factor, and Open Access journals. It is focused mainly on the JCR Science edition, because of the largest coverage in OA journals (about 5%). OA journals rank in the top fifty percentiles with a 38,62% share. The research is to be continued on the incoming JCR 2010 edition. Source: ELPUB (via e-LIS) On a Related Note: The 2009 Journal Citation Reports Were Released Last Week to Subscribers (Source: ResourceShelf)

Mla’10 week in review from the mla blog

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:53:17 +0100

Lots of things happened at the meeting and even those of us who were there and blogging had a hard time keeping up, so I thought I would provide a week in review of sorts from the Annual Meeting blog posts. Since bloggers are still adding posts (after MLA) I will add their links to this list as soon as possible. Please note the links aren’t always in order of how they were posted on the MLA Blog. Due to the hectic nature of the conference many people posted about events that happened a day or two ago from the posting date. True to my librarian organizing nature I have tried to put the posts in some sort of day/event order. My apologies if it isn’t exactly perfect. Also people sometimes wrote about multiple things in one post, in the interest of my mental health and the prevention of carpal tunnel syndrome, I am only listing their posts once, not under multiple days/topics. General Information: Those of you attended the meeting (in person or online) have access to the online meeting content at: https://www.xpressreg.net/register/MEDL050/xpresstoolkit/login.asp At that site you will be able to watch the Plenary Session Videos, view the posters and related abstracts, 5 minute lightning posters and abstracts, and section program videos. I know some stuff is already up and available to watch and they are furiously editing the rest of it so that it is available as soon as possible. Friday: MLA News MLA Green Project - Kraft- Report on the MLA Green Project Award, applications due November 2010, awarded at MLA 2011. Seeing Stars- Leibfarth - Report on MLA leadership development pilot program MLA Rising Stars. NPR Library Tour- Mihlrad- Only 15 people were lucky enough to go on a tour of National Public Radio’s library, read about it and check out Leigh’s pictures. Saturday: General Information and Fun Amy Blevin’s First Post - Blevins- General information post about MLA. ...

What lies behind the averages and significance of citation indicators in different disciplines?

Thu, 27 May 2010 11:00:20 +0100

The limitations of citation-based indicators include a lack of coverage, no normalization with respect to the length of reference lists (with a potential bias in favour of reviews), and different citation habits. As a consequence, the distributions of the indicators are not comparable across different disciplines. Here we show that the most popular journal citation indicators used in quality assessment — the journal impact factors of Thomson Scientific and the scientific journal rankings of Scopus — are strongly correlated with the proportion of within-database references, and even more so with the number of within-database recent references per paper. No significant correlations were found with other bibliometric magnitudes. We anticipate that these results will be a starting point for more sophisticated indicator models that take this dependence into account, and for the design of strategies aimed at extending such bibliometric databases as Thomson Scientific’s Science Citation Index or Elsevier’s Scopus to improve their capacity to evaluate all sciences. (Source: Journal of Information Science current issue)

Semantic web: who is who in the field -- a bibliometric analysis

Thu, 27 May 2010 11:00:20 +0100

The Semantic Web (SW) is one of the main efforts aiming to enhance human and machine interaction by representing data in an understandable way for machines to mediate data and services. It is a fast-moving and multidisciplinary field. This study conducts a thorough bibliometric analysis of the field by collecting data from Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus for the period of 1960—2009. It utilizes a total of 44,157 papers with 651,673 citations from Scopus, and 22,951 papers with 571,911 citations from WOS. Based on these papers and citations, it evaluates the research performance of the SW by identifying the most productive players, major scholarly communication media, highly cited authors, influential papers and emerging stars. (Source: Journal of Information Science current issue)

Research analytics

Sun, 16 May 2010 01:26:05 +0100

Analytics is big business. Organizations are increasingly turning to the analysis of transactional and other data to inform decision-making. Websites are refined based on analysis of traffic. Companies may use analytics to optimize inventory. And so on. I was struck by the parallel with business analytics when reading some brochures about Elsevier's SciVal. These were part of a pack distributed at the Emtacl10 conference in Trondheim recently. They include some quotes: We need reliable support to help us make smarter, defendable decisions about allocating internal funding. (Vice Chancellor for Research) Decision making will always be subjective, but we are trying to move to a more evidence-based model. (Development manager) The material describes the tool in terms which would not look out of place, with appropriate substitutions, in advertising for a business analytics tool: Academic Executives need accurate research performance insight to make appropriate funding decisions and develop strategic blueprints that will lead their institutions to valuable breakthroughs. Also in the pack was some material about the use of Scopus for bibliometrics. In this case, the material speaks about 'research performance measurement': Research Performance Measurement (RPM), also known as bibliometrics, is the discipline of measuring the performance of a researcher, a collection of selected articles, a journal or an institute. ..... Quantitative metrics are gaining prominence because they are easy to benchmark, objective and globally comparative; all important in global RPM. Of course, in this area Elsevier is competing with Thomson Reuters' Web of Science and related products. Indeed, Thomson Reuters has a Research evaluation section on its website. One of the drivers of such measurement is the strong interest in recent years in university ranking. ...

Canadian association of law libraries conference meetings

Sun, 09 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100

The 2010 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is underway in Windsor, Ontario.Some highlights from this morning:1) the Courthouse and Law Society Libraries Special Interest Group (SIG) held its annual business meeting. You can find the SIG's annual report on the CALL website.At the meeting, a number of members briefly described some of their projects of the past year.The Hamilton Law Association library has created a Facebook page to disseminate information about continuing legal education materials, training seminars and new titles.The Nova Scotia Barristers' Society library has created an annotated version of the rules of civil procedure of the province which is fully indexed and searchable.The Carleton Country Law Association library launched a new website, a library blog and Twitter feed and created a database of Association conference papers.The Law Society of Upper Canada Great Library launched a webinars series, created a reference procedures wiki and is testing (beta version) a new discovery tool that will offer one-stop searching of the catalogue, CLE materials and federated search.The Supreme Court of Canada library completed a move of a large part of its treatise collection from the sub-basement to the floor where researchers actually work. As well, a wiki is being tested where reference questions and answers are gathered.2) this spring, the Committee to Promote Research did not receive any applications that met the criteria for the CALL research grant. Thus, as in the past, the committee will conduct another competition with applications due October 15, 2010.The Committee is interested in sponsoring a session at next year's CALL conference, which will be held in Calgary. ...

Uksg

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100

'So what was the most interesting issue that came up at the [UKSG] conference?' asked an e-mail that arrived this afternoon, as I hurtled south on the train to King's Cross. I was stuck for a reply. It's hard to process three days of rich ideas about more or less everything that librarians and publishers have to deal with in the modern world. A frivolous answer would be 'tartan'. I don't believe Edinburgh has seem quite so much checked woollen cloth since George IV's visit in 1822. This was the theme of the conference dinner and, to my considerable surprise, I won the prize for its best interpretation. I wore evening dress, but substituted a pair of trousers in the Rothesay tartan for my usual midnight blue ones. I have no photograph to prove this, though some do exist, I believe; but I do have a handsome bottle of champagne, beautifully presented in a tartan cloth bag So would the most interesting issue be homosexual necrophilia in mallards? Open access? The changing OPAC? The big deal? How to measure the return on investment and impact of library services? New ways of finding and presenting information and data, as shown by Conrad Wolfram? The basic human need to make lists, something that cropped up in more than one presentation? Social media, as used by researchers? The uses and abuses of bibliometrics? Statistical fetishism? I'll write up my notes over the next few days, but I'll be hard-pressed to offer as good an account as the official bloggers already have, led by Charlie Rapple, @charlierapple on Twitter, at http://liveserials.blogspot.com/ (Source: Tom Roper's Weblog)

The effectiveness of the practice of correction and republication in the biomedical literature.

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100

The effectiveness of the practice of correction and republication in the biomedical literature.

J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 Apr;98(2):135-9

Authors: Peterson GM

OBJECTIVE: This research measures the effectiveness of the practice of correction and republication of invalidated articles in the biomedical literature by analyzing the rate of citation of the flawed and corrected versions of scholarly articles over time. If the practice of correction and republication is effective, then the incidence of citation of flawed versions should diminish over time and increased incidence of citation of the republication should be observed. METHODS: This is a bibliometric study using citation analysis and statistical analysis of pairs of flawed and corrected articles in MEDLINE and Web of Science. RESULTS: The difference between citation levels of flawed originals and corrected republications does not approach statistical significance until eight to twelve years post-republication. Results showed substantial variability among bibliographic sources in their provision of authoritative bibliographic information. CONCLUSIONS: Correction and republication is a marginally effective biblioremediative practice. ...

Hong kong university institutional repository uses scopus api for researcher citation data

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:01:57 +0100

Researcher pages in Hong Kong University's institutional repository will be updated with citation data generated by Elsevier's Scopus API. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The Scopus API offers users the opportunity to creatively interact with Scopus data by building mashups. It also allows access and usage of Scopus data inside and outside of the traditional library domain through applications based on the API. The API returns Scopus data in a format that easily integrates into an application or a web site. The majority of Scopus data is already available through the API, which can currently be used to request very specific information about article references, citations and affiliations. HKU is the first institution to show Scopus h-index, and counts of citations, documents, and co-authors for each current HKU author across the institution, in its local institutional repository, The HKU Scholars Hub (The Hub). These details are shown on The Hub ResearcherPages, an expert profiling system which showcases the research of each current HKU author. HKU uses the Scopus API to build these pages, and update them in real time. The Scopus search API draws on live data from Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database. By using the API, HKU is able to populate The Hub with real-time Scopus information, increasing accuracy and enriching data with valuable citation information. The API also enables HKU to highlight its overall performance and automate the process of keeping faculty publication lists up to date through continuous electronic tracking of individual researcher output. Research metrics cumulated by paper, and by author, are brought seamlessly into The Hub and displayed on appropriate records. This flexibility is a result of a recent enhancement to the Scopus API which allows for easier and more scalable ways of implementing citation counts to instantly enrich the content available on a given platform. . . ...

Hong kong university institutional repository uses scopus api for researcher citation data

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:01:53 +0100

Links for 2010-01-28

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:01:41 +0100

Research Trends – Sparking debate From article about SNIP – "Across a subject field as broad as scholarly communication, assessing journal impact by citations to a journal in a two-year time frame is obviously going to favor those subjects that cite heavily, and rapidly. Some fields, particularly those in the life sciences, tend to conform to this citation pattern better than others, leading to some widely recognized distortions." (tags: scopus sjr snip elsevier journals journalmetrics SCIimago CWTS) Research Trends A question of prestige From article: "Prestige measured by quantity of citations is one thing, but when it is based on the quality of those citations, you get a better sense of the real value of research to a community. Research Trends talks to Prof. Félix de Moya about SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), which ranks journals based on where their citations originate." (tags: scopus sjr snip elsevier journals journalmetrics SCIimago CWTS) Research Trends – New perspectives on journal performance From article :Bibliometric indicators are not without their own controversies (1, 2) and recently there has been an explosion of new metrics, accompanying a shift in the mindset of the scientific community towards a multidimensional view of journal evaluation." (tags: scopus sjr snip elsevier journals journalmetrics SCIimago CWTS) (Source: LIS :: Michael Habib)

La investigación sobre conjuntos difusos en españa

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Un nuevo artículo de ec3, esta vez dedicado a estudiar el área de conjuntos difusos, junto a varios investigadores del departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e IA de la UGR. Os dejo el resumenIntroduction. Presents the first bibliometric study on the evolution of the fuzzy sets theory field. It is specially focused on the research carried out by the Spanish comunity. Method. The CoPalRed software, for network analysis, and the co-word analysis technique are used. Analysis. Bibliometric maps showing the main associations among the main concepts in the field are provided for the periods 1965-1993, 1994-1998, 1999-2003 and 2004-2008. Results. The bibliometric maps obtained provide insight into the structure of the fuzzy sets theory research in the Spanish community, visualize the research subfields, and show the existing relationships between those subfields. Furthermore, we compare the Spanish community with other countries (the USA and Canada; the UK and Germany; and Japan and Peoples Republic of China). Conclusions. As a result of the analysis, a complete study of the evolution of the Spanish fuzzy sets community and an analysis of its international importance are presented. ...y la referencia con el texto completo del trabajo,López-Herrera, A.G., Cobo, M.J., Herrera-Viedma, E., Herrera, F., Bailón-Moreno, R. and Jiménez-Contreras, E. Visualization and evolution of the scientific structure of fuzzy sets research in Spain. Information Research, 2009, 14 (4) paper 421. [descargar pdf]ec3noticias el blog del grupoEC3 torressalinas@gmail.com (Source: EC3noticias)

Libraries and research excellence

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:00:22 +0100

Last month I mentioned the publication of A comparative review of research assessment regimes in five countries and the role of libraries in the research assessment process, which had been produced for us by Key Perspectives. It is a detailed report, and I also said that we’d shortly issue a companion report with some background information on the question of research assessment – ie the system by which universities are evaluated for their research performance by the bodies that fund them, with some of the key findings for each country, and with some recommendations for research libraries. That companion report, Research assessment and the role of the library, was published yesterday, and I thought I might draw attention here to the recommendations for research libraries that it makes. These are: Libraries should be sources of knowledge on disciplinary norms and practices in research outputs for their institutions Libraries should seek to sustain environments in which disciplines can develop while co-existing with political constraints Libraries should manage research outputs data at national and international scales Libraries should take responsibility for the efficient operation of research output repositories across research environments Libraries should provide expertise in bibliometrics Libraries should provide usage evidence Libraries should claim their territory These challenges are easy to state, and most of us would readily assent to them. Some academic librarians may even claim to be doing several of them already – particularly in the operation of repositories, and in the provision of expertise in bibliometrics in some cases. But how many non-library organisations would recognise these as library roles? Would our funding bodies? The President’s or Vice Chancellor’s Office? Our research councils? Research publishers? Our politicians? Until these roles can be seen from the outside, we have not ‘claimed our territory’. ...

Institutional researcher pages: an example

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:39:52 +0100

I have written a couple of times recently (here and here) about institutional and indvidual reputation management. Think, for example, of faculty profiles: the managed disclosure of expertise and research activity. This has often been an informal personal or departmental activity. However, there is now a variety of institutional initiatives which may pull together data about expertise, experience, publications, grants, courses taught, and so on (see OSU Pro at OSU, or Vivo at Cornell, for example). Such initiatives may sit between between several organizational units on campus: Research Support, PR/Communications, IT, Library. They are also at the intersection of different systems: enterprise (Peoplesoft, for example), course lists, research/grants management, bibliographic. At the same time, researchers may have presences in emerging network level research social networks (Mendeley or Nature Network for example), in disciplinary resources (Repec, for example), and, of course, in general use services (Linkedin, for example). There are also commercial services which support such activity in different ways, Community of Science or Symplectic for example. [Reputation enhancement] The Scholars Hub is the institutional repository at Hong Kong University. It has recently been enhanced with author pages which pull data from several sources including: Name & Contact Details: HKU Communications Directory Picture & Biography: Departmental web pages Media Spokesmanship: HKU Communications & Public Affairs Office Metrics: Scopus & ISI ResearcherID Open access outputs: HKU Scholars' Hub. Each is harvested from its source silo and integrated to form an author profile. ...

Hlwiki canada – improve your research skills

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:00:03 +0100

Associations Bibliometrics Blogs Canadian Health Librarians - Leaders, Past and Present Clinical librarianship Collection development in biomedicine Consortia Digital libraries Institutional repositories Complementary & alternative medicine (CAM) Consumer health information Patient education Current awareness Databases in biomedicine MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL Interfaces PubMed Point of care decision-making tools - Overview Dublin ... (Source: UBC Academic Search - Google Scholar Blog)

Research assessment and the library ...

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:45:54 +0100

I am pleased to note the appearance of a new report on research assessment and the role of libraries. This has been prepared as part of our Research Information Management stream of work in support of the RLG Partnership. The study is a comparative review of formal assessment regimes in five countries. Such assessment regimes exist to monitor public research spending in various ways, and are specific to national circumstances. Although such regimes are not universal, evaluation, ranking and assessment of various sorts are becoming more common and some of the library responses discussed (bibliometric assistance, reputation management, names and identifers, institutional management of research outputs) may be of quite general interest. This is from the introduction by the authors, the UK consultants Key Perspectives: This study was designed to review research assessment regimes and the role of research libraries within those assessment processes in five countries, each of which takes a different approach to assessment. At the beginning of the project it was postulated that libraries occupy an interesting position within the academy, both belonging to an institution yet to an extent separated from it. There is--arguably--a set of 'research library values' that remains independent of local, institutional values, enabling libraries to occupy a unique and constructive role in the development and support of research assessment processes. Libraries have an understanding of scholarly communication processes, and they are currently in a state of rapid transformation to keep pace with the way scholars work. They understand the broad range of outputs and the publishing behaviour of scholars across disciplines, and the methodological constraints, limitations and variances that pertain to assessment exercises. ...

National systems of research assessment and implications for libraries

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:39:29 +0100

Research assessment is a very big deal in some countries. Countries whose university systems are largely publicly-funded routinely check up on the research quality of individual universities to ensure that they are squeezing the best possible performance out of their systems. They do this because they see a link between high-quality research and economic development. The economic potential of research is growing in importance as national ‘knowledge economies’ recognise the need for international research excellence, and see universities as a key driver. We have just published a report which reviews the research assessment regimes of five countries, and the role of libraries in the processes of assessment that exist. This report was produced by Key Perspectives Ltd, a UK consultancy, and it surveys the research assessment situation in the Netherlands, Ireland, the UK, Denmark and Australia. We chose countries that we knew were doing interesting things in assessment - or in preparation for its introduction. The high political stakes involved were evident even as the report was being written. In the UK, the pilot exercise for the system that will replace the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) ditched one of its proposed new thrusts (bibliometrics) and found another (economic impact) for the country’s universities to stress about. In Australia, a recent change of government led to temporary abandonment of a system that tied assessment outcomes to government funding, and arguably lost the country some ground in the international scramble for both reputation and economic advantage. ...

The importance of books ..

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:45:56 +0100

I read the interesting Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings and its supplementary reports (literature review and bibliometric analysis) on a transatlantic flight the other day. (Incidentally, it must have been the most cramped large-plane seat I have ever been on - I could not use my laptop.) A brief overview and links to report components are available on the Research Information Network splash page. There is much of interest in the report about publishing and communications practices and about incentives. Given our general discussion of books and their contexts I was struck by several findings about the relative importance of books in overall practice. The bibliometric analysis examined the outputs of a sample of UK researchers: Although there is no difference over time in the total number of citations per output, there are statistically significant differences in the types of work being cited, shown in Figure 15. There are more citations to journal articles and websites in 2008 than in 2003, but fewer citations to books and grey literature. Supporting paper 1: bibliometric analysis] Here is a comment from the main report: As noted earlier, there has been a drift towards journal papers, meeting abstracts and editorial material, and a corresponding decline in books, book chapters and conference proceedings. But many researchers believe that the increased volumes of publication in recent years are the results of an environment characterised by an increasing emphasis on assessing and evaluating performance, which brings with it pressure to publish too much, too soon and in inappropriate formats. And some believe that quality is being compromised in the pursuit of increased output .. [Communicating knowledge ..] Disciplinary differences are described. ...

Bibliometrics as a tool for supporting prospective r&d decision-making in the health sciences

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:11:44 +0100

Bibliometrics as a tool for supporting prospective R&D decision-making in the health sciences Bibliometric analysis is an increasingly important part of a broader ‘toolbox’ of evaluation methods available to R&D policymakers to support decision-making. In the US, UK and Australia, for example, there is evidence of gradual convergence over the past ten years towards a model of university research assessment and ranking incorporating the use of bibliometric measures. In Britain, the Department of Health (England) has shown growing interest in using bibliometric analysis to support prospective R&D decision-making, and has engaged RAND Europe’s expertise in this area through a number of exercises since 2005. These range from the macro-level selection of potentially high impact institutions, to micro-level selection of high impact individuals for the National Institute for Health Research’s faculty of researchers.The aim of this document is to be an accessible, ‘beginner’s guide’ to bibliometric theory and application in the area of health research and development (R&D) decision-making. The report also aims to identify future directions and possible next steps in this area, based on RAND Europe’s work with the Department of Health to date. It is targeted at a range of audiences, and will be of interest to health and biomedical researchers, as well as R&D decision-makers in the UK and elsewhere. The report was produced with funding support from RAND Europe’s Health R&D Policy Research Unit with the Department of Health. Source: RAND Corporation (Source: ResourceShelf)

The december, 2009 (35.4) issue of the ifla journal is now available

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:01:55 +0100

Access the Complete Issue (PDF) Articles Include: Electronic Book Collection Development in Italy: a case study Agnese Perrone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Internet Use in Israeli Universities: a case study David Beno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Libraries in Palestine Françoise Lefebvre-Danset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Green Gift Plan: building small libraries in public places of Mazandaran Province, Iran Hossein Noorani and Heidar Mokhtari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2000–2007): a bibliometric study Bhaskar Mukherjee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 (Source: ResourceShelf)

Journal of the american society for information science and technology (2000--2007): a bibliometric study

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:36:44 +0100

The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) has been playing a vital role in the dissemination of scholarly articles in library and information science since 1950. This paper presents the results of a bibliometric study of articles published in the JASIST from 2000 to 2007. It examines the distribution of papers under various headings, including authorship pattern and nature of collaboration, geographic distribution of articles, nature of cited and citing references, prolific authors and highly cited authors. Data were collected using the Web of Science and analyzed using Microsoft Excel. Results indicate that during the sample period the rate of publication was uneven and the most prominent form of publication was articles. The trend of authorship pattern of articles is towards collaboration and authors from 47 countries contributed articles. The country-wise distribution reveals that the highest number of contributions was made by US authors followed by the UK. The number of references cited per article increased from 2000—2007 whereas articles received citations in decreasing numbers during the same period. The results suggest that articles need to have been published for more than 2 years before they receive adequate numbers of citations. (Source: IFLA Journal current issue)

Lissabon: final call for posters and papers extended deadline 6 november 2009

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:46:35 +0100

The European Association for Health Information and Libraries EAHIL The 12th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, 14th – 18th June 2010 Last chance to submit your paper or poster. For the rules go to http://www.eahil2010.org/en/for-authors-presenters/abstract-submission Ich würde mich freuen, wer der ein oder andere noch etwas über seine Bibliothek und seine Aktivitäten erzählen möchte und einen Abstract einreichen würde. Nie waren die Chancen angenommen zu werden so gut wie dieses Jahr! Soweit es in meiner Macht steht, werde ich allen Teilnehmern und insbesondere den Präsentatoren bei Reisekostenzuschüssen und bei der Konferenz mit Rat und Tat zur Seite stehen – und nicht zu vergessen: Lissabon ist wahrlich eine Reise wert und die Gastfreundschaft unserer portugiesischen Kollegen legendär! The International Programme Committee has the great honor of inviting you to submit papers and posters for the 12th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries DISCOVERING NEW SEAS OF KNOWLEDGE: technologies, environments and users in the future of health libraries to be held in Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, 14th – 18th June 2010. As a good scientific program is a major key to a successful conference, we very much look forward to your contribution. The Committee invites research papers, innovative approaches, examples of best practice and case studies on the following topics: Health technologies assessment, for example: Information support for health care decision-makers. Evidence provision for the introduction, allocation and cost-effective use of medical technologies. Evidence-based librarianship, for example: Supporting evidence-based health care. Evidence-based library and information practice. Bibliometrics, for example: Qualitative indicators. Measuring impact and quality. Citation indexing systems. Cost justification for information services. ...

Classifying documents with link-based bibliometric measures

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:02:10 +0100

Abstract Automatic document classification can be used to organize documents in a digital library, construct on-line directories, improve the precision of web searching, or help the interactions between user and search engines. In this paper we explore how linkage information inherent to different document collections can be used to enhance the effectiveness of classification algorithms. We have experimented with three link-based bibliometric measures, co-citation, bibliographic coupling and Amsler, on three different document collections: a digital library of computer science papers, a web directory and an on-line encyclopedia. Results show that both hyperlink and citation information can be used to learn reliable and effective classifiers based on a kNN classifier. In one of the test collections used, we obtained improvements of up to 69.8% of macro-averaged F 1 over the traditional text-based kNN classifier, considered as the baseline measure in our experiments. We also present alternative ways of combining bibliometric based classifiers with text based classifiers. Finally, we conducted studies to analyze the situation in which the bibliometric-based classifiers failed and show that in such cases it is hard to reach consensus regarding the correct classes, even for human judges. Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s10791-009-9119-7Authors T. Couto, Federal University of Minas Gerais Department of Computer Science Belo Horizonte BrazilN. Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais Department of Computer Science Belo Horizonte BrazilP. Calado, IST/INESC-ID Lisbon PortugalM. Cristo, FUCAPI-Analysis, Research and Tech. Innovation Center Manaus BrazilM. Gonçalves, Federal University of Minas Gerais Department of Computer Science Belo Horizonte BrazilE. S. de Moura, Federal University of Amazonas Department of Computer Science Manaus BrazilW. ...

Open access week event at harvard law 10/19/09

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:47:31 +0100

On Monday, October 19, in recognition of Open Access Week, a Question and Answer forum on Harvard’s involvement in OA was held at Harvard Law School. Stuart Shieber (professor of computer science and Director of Harvard’s Office of Scholarly Communication) and Peter Suber (Berkman fellow and author of “Open Access News”) hosted. Michelle Pearse, HLS Librarian for Scholarly Communication and Open Access Initiatives, moderated. A question concerned the full impact of OA on library budgets. Prof. Shieber asked rhetorically what is the full cost of not implementing OA. He noted serial cost hyperinflation and dryly noted Stein’s Law (”If something can’t go on forever it will stop” – e.g. serials prices.) “Something … more sustainable” than the current scholarly publishing system is needed, Prof. Shieber continued, to avoid “meltdown.” The Harvard OA mandate aims to “solve the symptom,” that few can access scholarly literature, and enable “broad dissemination.” The cost of OA at Harvard, Prof. Shieber went on, is “relatively low” because the Office of Scholarly Communication pays it. (Prof. Shieber introduced the new program manager for OSC, Sue Kriegsman.) “The cost of Green OA,” where scholars post final version of a work as opposed to the publisher’s version, “is relatively inexpensive.” Fully implementing OA would require a new business model, the professor remarked. He noted that there are more than 4,000 OA journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, but that relatively few of these are indexed by database vendors such as Thomson/ISI. ...

Comment et pourquoi les chercheurs publient

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:10:46 +0100

Communicating knowledge: how and why researchers publish and disseminate their findings "This report looks at how researchers publish and why, including the motivations that lead them to publish in different formats and the increase in collaboration and co-authorship. It also explores how researchers decide what to cite and the inﬂuence of research assessment on their behaviours and attitudes." (source: RIN, Grande-Bretagne, 17/09/09) Communicating knowledge report Communicating knowledge briefing Communicating knowledge bibliometric analysis Communicating knowledge focus group report Communicating knowledge researcher survey Communicating knowledge literature review (Source: pintiniblog)

Questions regarding "an analysis of bibliometric indicators, national institutes of health funding, and faculty size at association of american medical colleges medical schools, 1997-2007".

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Questions regarding "An Analysis of Bibliometric Indicators, National Institutes of Health Funding, and Faculty Size at Association of American Medical Colleges medical schools, 1997-2007".

J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 Oct;97(4):241

Authors: Bagnell SJ

PMID: 19851484 [PubMed - in process]

(Source: PubMed: "Journal of the Medi...)

"worldwide use and impact of the nasa astrophysics data system digital library"

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Michael J. Kurtz et al. have self-archived "Worldwide Use and Impact of the NASA Astrophysics Data System Digital Library" in arXiv.org. Here's the abstract: By combining data from the text, citation, and reference databases with data from the ADS readership logs we have been able to create Second Order Bibliometric Operators, a customizable class of collaborative filters which permits substantially improved accuracy in literature queries. Using the ADS usage logs along with membership statistics from the International Astronomical Union and data on the population and gross domestic product (GDP) we develop an accurate model for world-wide basic research where the number of scientists in a country is proportional to the GDP of that country, and the amount of basic research done by a country is proportional to the number of scientists in that country times that country's per capita GDP. We introduce the concept of utility time to measure the impact of the ADS/URANIA and the electronic astronomical library on astronomical research. We find that in 2002 it amounted to the equivalent of 736 FTE researchers, or $250 Million, or the astronomical research done in France. Subject headings: digital libraries; bibliometrics; sociology of science; information retrieval Related Posts BioMed Central Launches Its 200th Open Access Journal "Empirical Study of Data Sharing by Authors Publishing in PLoS Journals" "SCOAP3: A Key Library Leadership Opportunity in the Transition to Open Access" National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Adopted Open Access Mandate in February ARL Webcast: Reaching Out to Leaders of Scholarly Societies at Research Institutions (Source: DigitalKoans)

"worldwide use and impact of the nasa astrophysics data system digital library"

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:02:52 +0100

"worldwide use and impact of the nasa astrophysics data system digital library"

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:02:29 +0100

Michael J. Kurtz et al. have self-archived "Worldwide Use and Impact of the NASA Astrophysics Data System Digital Library" in arXiv.org. Here's the abstract: By combining data from the text, citation, and reference databases with data from the ADS readership logs we have been able to create Second Order Bibliometric Operators, a customizable class of collaborative filters which permits substantially improved accuracy in literature queries. Using the ADS usage logs along with membership statistics from the International Astronomical Union and data on the population and gross domestic product (GDP) we develop an accurate model for world-wide basic research where the number of scientists in a country is proportional to the GDP of that country, and the amount of basic research done by a country is proportional to the number of scientists in that country times that country's per capita GDP. We introduce the concept of utility time to measure the impact of the ADS/URANIA and the electronic astronomical library on astronomical research. We find that in 2002 it amounted to the equivalent of 736 FTE researchers, or $250 Million, or the astronomical research done in France. Subject headings: digital libraries; bibliometrics; sociology of science; information retrieval Related Posts "Empirical Study of Data Sharing by Authors Publishing in PLoS Journals" Hindawi’s Open Access Journals’ Impact Factor Up over 27% Rufus Pollock on Open Data and Licensing ARL Releases "Establish a Universal, Open Library or Digital Data Commons" "Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web" (Source: DigitalKoans)

Reputation enhancement

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:30:41 +0100

September 29, 2009 • dempsey Categories: Analytics and measurement• Marketing• Research, learning and scholarly communication• Social networking Reputation management on the web - individual and institutional - has become a more conscious activity for many, as ranking, assessment and other reputational measures are increasingly influenced by network visibility. In particular, it raises for academic institutions an issue that has become a part of many service decisions: what is it appropriate to do locally? What should be sourced externally? And what should be left to others to do? Think, for example, of faculty profiles: the managed disclosure of expertise and research activity. This has often been an informal personal or departmental activity. However, there is now a variety of institutional initiatives which may pull together data about expertise, experience, publications, grants, courses taught, and so on (see OSU Pro at OSU, or Vivo at Cornell, for example). Such initiatives may sit between between several organizational units on campus: Research Support, PR/Communications, IT, Library. They are also at the intersection of different systems: enterprise (Peoplesoft, for example), course lists, research/grants management, bibliographic. At the same time, researchers may have presences in emerging network level research social networks (Mendeley or Nature Network for example), in disciplinary resources (Repec, for example), and, of course, in general use services (Linkedin, for example). There are also commercial services which support such activity in different ways, Community of Science or Symplectic for example. In this context, here is a note about several unrelated initiatives which I have come across in the last week or so. ...

Saucyshrimp at 17:00, 29 september 2009

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:00:18 +0100

← Previous revision Revision as of 17:00, 29 September 2009 Line 46: Line 46: * [[Preservation (library and archival science)|Preservation]] * [[Preservation (library and archival science)|Preservation]] * Public reference and other services * Public reference and other services - * Scholarly communication (includes bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, Web metrics) + * Scholarly communication (includes bibliometrics, infometrics, scientometrics, Web metrics) * Use of libraries in virtual information environments * Use of libraries in virtual information environments (Source: Library science - Revision history)

What do medical librarians do?

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:43:46 +0100

Last school year my son was asked to talk about his parents and tell the class what we do at work. He responded, “My mom is a librarian at a hospital and she finds stuff in books and on computers to help doctors.” I was so proud. Of course then he described what my husband at work. “I don’t know what my dad does but his work has a lot of computers with video games and they have two slides and a bouncy castle you can play in.” My husband is a web developer and yes his company has two slides within the building that employees, including the CEO, have used to get the ground floor. But the rest of the stuff, the computer games, Wii, Guitar Hero, bouncy castle, etc. are only at my husband’s work during the children’s holiday parties. Since my son really has only been to my husband’s work when there is a party, he assumes his Dad has Wiis and bouncy castles at work all the time. My son’s perceptions of what each of us does in our jobs is colored by what he sees us doing and our work environment. Obviously my husband doesn’t have bouncer at his work place every day, and at 6′ 5″ he probably is slightly over the height restriction for that type of entertainment. But since my son really only sees my husband’s workplace during the parties, that is all he has to go on for a point of view of what his dad does at work. Each person’s perception is colored by what they have seen and what they have learned from experiences. When I am at various social gatherings I am often asked what I do. I respond that I am a medical librarian and then I watch as the glazed look flits across their faces and they get that deer in the headlights stare. ...

How and why researchers disseminate their findings

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Communicating knowledge: How and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings is a new study released this month by the Research Information Network and JISC. The report touches on some aspects related to OA; excerpts: ... Many reports have pointed to more widespread awareness (if not necessarily deeper understanding) among researchers’ of open access, particularly in some areas in the biological and physical sciences. There is some pressure on researchers from funders and from universities to make use of open access repositories, and previous surveys have indicated that a majority of researchers are prepared to respond to positively to such pressures. But uptake of open access options – either through publication in open access journals or through deposit of articles in open access repositories – has been slower than many would have hoped. Our survey shows that over 60% of researchers believe that open access repositories are either ‘not important’ or ‘not applicable’ to the dissemination of their research. This may reflect researchers’ concerns – shown in earlier studies – that open access outlets will be not be rated highly by peer reviewers – either in the [Research Assessment Exercise] or on interview panels – or in any bibliometric analysis. There are, however, significant disciplinary differences: 52% of physical sciences and mathematics researchers say open access repositories are ‘important’ or ‘very important’; whereas only 25% of humanities researchers say the same. The most prevalent influence on the decision to use open access repositories was maximising dissemination to the target audience (47% saying it has a lot of influence, 22.% a little influence). The requirements of research assessment has the least influence (77% saying it had none at all). ...

Rin report: communicating knowledge

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Communicating knowledge: How and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings is an interesting report released last week. "It investigates a series of questions in three broad areas: 1. Publication and dissemination behaviour; 2. Citation behaviour; 3. The perceived influence of research assessment (past and anticipated)" For the information of non-Brits, "research assessment" means the periodic exercise that rates every department in every UK university on the quality of its research: Government funding is related to the score so this is very important to UK academics.The investigation was done through bibliometric (citation) analysis, a literature review, an online survey and focus groups and interviews conducted with research-active academics from various institutions and disciplines.The report discusses disciplinary differences. For example, journal articles are important to everyone, but there are differing patterns as regards other publications "it is notable that strong majorities of researchers across all disciplines regard other forms of publication and output as important, especially conference presentations and posters, monographs, and book chapters." (there are bar charts showing differences)The report discusses influences on where to publish (including the tension between desire to reach particular audience (e.g. practitioners), and need to be published in "top" journals; and the influence of the research assessment exercise). The report also discusses issues that affect citation and retrieval, such as who gets listed as author and in what order (this varies dramatically by discipline); and issues of how references are chosen.The report was done by a team from Loughborough University and Manchester Metropolitan University: Jenny Fry and Charles Oppenheim; Claire Creaser, William Johnson, Mark Summers; and Geoff Butters, Jenny Craven, Jill Griffiths, and Dick Hartley.Research Information Network. ...

Call for papers: 5th iconference 2010

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:09:51 +0100

Der internationale Verbund der iSchools wirbt um Konferenzbeiträge: “The Fifth Annual iConference, Feb. 3-6, 2010, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, brings together scholars, professionals and students who come from diverse backgrounds and share interests in working at the nexus of people, information and technology. The 2010 iConference theme addresses iMPACTS. As the Obama administration brings new potential for our field to affect change, particularly through investments in education, broadband and scientific research, it also is providing a moment for critical reflection on the impacts of the iSchool movement (research, teaching, profession, industry and service) within and outside our community. In this theme, we thus consider such questions as: What are the broad impacts (actual and potential) of the iSchool movement? How can impact be defined, identified, measured and communicated to key audiences?This Call for Participation solicits contributions that reflect on the core activities of the iSchool community, including research, design, methods and epistemologies, educational practices and engagement between the iSchools and wider constituencies both in the United States and abroad. With invited speakers, paper and poster sessions, roundtables, wildcard sessions, workshops and ample opportunities for conversations and connections, the iConference celebrates and engages our multidisciplinary efforts to understand the complex interrelationships among people, information and technology in the iSociety. Sessions will feature completed and early cutting-edge work. The iConference will also include a doctoral student workshop and a mentoring session for untenured faculty and post-doctoral researchers. ...

A negative trend of biomedical research in libya: a bibliometric study.

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100

A negative trend of biomedical research in Libya: a bibliometric study.

Health Info Libr J. 2009 Sep;26(3):240-5

Authors: Benamer HT, Bredan A, Bakoush O

Background: It is well established that Libya is lagging behind its peers in biomedical research. The aim of this study is to analyse all the original biomedical publications affiliated with Libya from 1973 to 2007. Methods: PubMed and the Science Citation Index Expanded were searched for 'original research' biomedical studies affiliated with Libya. The generated data were hand searched and 329 'original research' studies were included in the analysis. Results: The first study was published in 1973. Publication rate peaked to an average of 15.2 studies per year during 1986-1996 and dropped to an average of 8.8 studies per year during 1997-2007. Of 166 first authors; 41% were Libyans and 59% were expatriates. The latter contributed 104 studies between 1986 and 1996 and 36 studies between 1997 and 2007, while the Libyans contributed 63 and 61 studies in the two respective periods. ...

La primogenitura y la lengua de las gemelas de mateo

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:22:01 +0100

Vincent Larivière e Yves Gingras han publicado recientemente un trabajo (Larivière, 2009) con el que afirman demostrar que la revista en la que es publicado un trabajo influye notablemente en las citas que este trabajo recibe. Para demostrarlo localizaron aquellas publicaciones duplicadas que recogiera el Web of Science (no indica fechas, así que supongo que de la base de datos completa ¿desde 1945 o desde 1900?), entendiendo por duplicadas aquellas en las que coincidiera con exactitud el título, el primer autor y el número de referencias bibliográficas. Reunieron un total de 4532 parejas y con ellas hicieron una simple comparación: revista con mayor factor de impacto, número de citas del artículo, revista con menor factor de impacto y número de citas del artículo. Como resultado observaron que del par de artículos, el publicado en la revista con mayor factor de impacto recibía de media 11,9 citas frente a las 6,33 que recibía el mismo artículo publicado en la revista con un factor de impacto más bajo. Y por tanto, según los autores, el factor de impacto de la revista tiene un efecto notable en las citas obtenidas por el artículo publicado, es decir, una especie de efecto Mateo en las publicaciones; las citas llaman a las citas. Sin embargo, aunque los autores afirman que los artículos duplicados son, por definición, idénticos, yo tengo serias dudas al respecto. Incluso si aceptamos que estamos hablando de gemelos idénticos, con los mismos atributos, existe la primogenitura y en el trabajo no se describe. Los autores afirman que el 80% de los duplicados fueron publicados en el mismo año o con un año de diferencia, pero no indican si existe diferencia en el número de citas que recibe el artículo más antiguo (primogénito) frente al más reciente. ...

La primogenitura y la lengua de las gemelas de mateo

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:22:01 +0100

Ph.d dissertation: "scholarly communication changing: the implications of open access"

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Tove Faber Frandsen's Ph.D dissertation, "Scholarly CommunicationCchanging: The Implications of Open Access," is now available. Here's an excerpt: The dissertation aims at investigating the changing scholarly communication in general and more specifically the implications of open access on scholarly communication. The overall research question is: What are the effects of open access on scholarly communication? The dissertation consists of five empirical studies of various aspects of the implications of open access on scholarly communication. The five studies, published as journal articles, are bibliometric studies conducted on three different levels. The first level consists of two studies of a general, more explorative character. The first general study analyses the coverage of open access base resources and the second the use of open access journals in the sciences. The next level of analysis consists of two specific studies that look into two widespread assumptions of the implications of open access. The first is the assumption that the developing countries are great beneficiaries of open access and the second is the belief that open access causes more citations. The third level consists of a concluding, perspectival study. The levels in the thesis to some extent also follow the chronological order of the studies. Related Posts National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Adopted Open Access Mandate in February Confederation of Open Access Repositories to Launch During Open Access Week 2009 Presentations from "Rough Waters: Navigating Hard Times in the Scholarly Communication Marketplace" Kevin L. Smith on "Open Access and Authors’ Rights Management: A Possibility for Theology?" Scholarly and Research Communication Established (Source: DigitalKoans)

Ph.d dissertation: "scholarly communication changing: the implications of open access"

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:01:42 +0100

Tove Faber Frandsen's Ph.D dissertation, "Scholarly CommunicationCchanging: The Implications of Open Access," is now available. Here's an excerpt: The dissertation aims at investigating the changing scholarly communication in general and more specifically the implications of open access on scholarly communication. The overall research question is: What are the effects of open access on scholarly communication? The dissertation consists of five empirical studies of various aspects of the implications of open access on scholarly communication. The five studies, published as journal articles, are bibliometric studies conducted on three different levels. The first level consists of two studies of a general, more explorative character. The first general study analyses the coverage of open access base resources and the second the use of open access journals in the sciences. The next level of analysis consists of two specific studies that look into two widespread assumptions of the implications of open access. The first is the assumption that the developing countries are great beneficiaries of open access and the second is the belief that open access causes more citations. The third level consists of a concluding, perspectival study. The levels in the thesis to some extent also follow the chronological order of the studies. Related Posts National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Adopted Open Access Mandate in February Scholarly and Research Communication Established Scholarly Communication 101: Starting with the Basics Workshop Materials Added to Scholarly Communication Toolkit Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation “Summary and Conclusions. Final Chapter of Scholarly Communication for Librarians“ (Source: DigitalKoans)

Ph.d dissertation: "scholarly communication changing: the implications of open access"

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:01:15 +0100

Counter (counting online usage of networked electronic resources)

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:22:16 +0100

Launched in March 2002, COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) is an international initiative serving librarians, publishers and intermediaries by setting standards that facilitate the recording and reporting of online usage statistics in a consistent, credible and compatible way. The first COUNTER Code of Practice, covering online journals and databases, was published in 2003. COUNTER.s coverage was extended further with the launch of the Code of Practice for online books and reference works in 2006. The body of COUNTER compliant usage statistics has steadily grown as more and more vendors have adopted the COUNTER Codes of Practice. This has contributed to the new discipline of usage bibliometrics and a great deal of work is underway to try to establish .value metrics. associated with usage, in which the COUNTER compliant statistics play an increasingly important role.. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News)

Counter (counting online usage of networked electronic resources)

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:22:16 +0100

Buildingthree blogspot wearable web

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100

http://buildingthree.blogspot.com/2009/07/wearable-web-3-4.html:Following on from last post's comment on gendering of the Web... it occurs to me that the Web won't be or can't be successfully gendered by in the way I suggested. Just because feminine terms out-rank masculine terms, etc. Bibliometric brute force won't make the Web pink nor blue. Many reasons for this (maybe more on the subject (Source: ISHUSH)

Bibliométrie: historique, indicateurs, méthodes

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:58:51 +0100

Frozen Footprints "Bibliometrics has the ambitious goal of measuring science. To this end, it exploits the way science is disseminated trough scientific publications and the resulting citation network of scientific papers. We survey the main historical contributions to the field, the most interesting bibliometric indicators, and the most popular bibliometric data sources. Moreover, we discuss distributions commonly used to model bibliometric phenomena and give an overview of methods to build bibliometric maps of science." (source: Massimo Franceschet / déposé sur arXiv, 17/07/09) (Source: pintiniblog)

Elsevier launches scival spotlight bibliometric service

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Elsevier's SciVal Spotlight uses "science mapping" to reveal the structure of scientific publishing in no fewer than 80,000 areas of research by means of bibliographic analysis and visualization algorithms. [Press Release] Think traditional bibliometric research measurements on steroids in so... (Source: Law Librarian Blog)

Receiving the french: a bibliometric snapshot of the impact of `french theory' on information studies

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100

This study explores the extent to which `French theory' (Bourdieu, Derrida, Foucault et al.) has left its mark on the scholarly literature of information studies. A bibliometric analysis reveals which theorists (and which works) have been most highly cited over the course of the last four decades. The study also identifies the information studies journals and scholars who have been the most frequent citers of French theorists. (Source: Journal of Information Science current issue)

12th ecmhl lisbon: 1st call for papers

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:09:18 +0100

The 12th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, 14th - 18th June 2010 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS The International Programme Committee invites you to submit papers and posters for the 12th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries “DISCOVERING NEW SEAS OF KNOWLEDGE: technologies, environments and users in the future of health libraries” to be held in Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, 14th - 18th June 2010. The Committee invites research papers, innovative approaches, examples of best practice and case studies on the following topics: Health technologies assessment, for example: Information support for health care decision-makers. Evidence provision for the introduction, allocation and cost-effective use of medical technologies. Evidence-based librarianship, for example: Supporting evidence-based health care. Evidence-based library and information practice. Bibliometrics, for example: Qualitative indicators. Measuring impact and quality. Citation indexing systems. Cost justification for information services. Preservation and memory, for example: Old collections in a digital world. Health and biomedical informatics, for example: Data analysis and data mining. Content analysis. Health databases. Ontology. Web search and information credibility. Library spaces and places, for example: Physical and virtual spaces. Changing physical library space. Value of library and information services. Health libraries architecture. Ubiquitous libraries. Scholarly publishing and open access, for example: Self-archiving. Scientific information. Knowledge society. Copyright agreements. Pre-print and post-print. Publishing systems. Emerging technologies and tools, for example: Innovative health information management. Mobile technologies. Information visualisation. Wiki technology and communities. Virtual libraries. Microblogging. Communication and collaboration technologies. Semantic web. Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. ...

Trends in health sciences library and information science research: an analysis of research publications in the bulletin of the medical library association and journal of the medical library association from 1991 to 2007.

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Trends in health sciences library and information science research: an analysis of research publications in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and Journal of the Medical Library Association from 1991 to 2007.

J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 Jul;97(3):203-11

Authors: Gore SA, Nordberg JM, Palmer LA, Piorun ME

OBJECTIVE: This study analyzed trends in research activity as represented in the published research in the leading peer-reviewed professional journal for health sciences librarianship. METHODOLOGY: Research articles were identified from the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and Journal of the Medical Library Association (1991-2007). Using content analysis and bibliometric techniques, data were collected for each article on the (1) subject, (2) research method, (3) analytical technique used, (4) number of authors, (5) number of citations, (6) first author affiliation, and (7) funding source. The results were compared to a previous study, covering the period 1966 to 1990, to identify changes over time. RESULTS: Of the 930 articles examined, 474 (51%) were identified as research articles. Survey (n = 174, 37.1%) was the most common methodology employed, quantitative descriptive statistics (n = 298, 63.5%) the most used analytical technique, and applied topics (n = 332, 70%) the most common type of subject studied. The majority of first authors were associated with an academic health sciences library (n = 264, 55.7%). Only 27.4% (n = 130) of studies identified a funding source. CONCLUSION: This study's findings demonstrate that progress is being made in health sciences librarianship research. ...

Elpub 2009

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:13:01 +0100

Les présentations de l'ELPUB 2009 (13th International Conference on Electronic Publishing : Rethinking Electronic Publishing : Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies, 10-12/06, Milan) sont disponibles ici. A noter: Connecting Readers with Open Access Resources: The CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group: article | présentation Exploring the costs and benefits of alternative publishing models: article | présentation Understanding how Students and Faculty REALLY use E-Books: The UK National E-Books Observatory: article | présentation Self-Archiving in practice: What do the researchers say and is there any pain alleviation?: article | présentation Automated Support for a Collaborative System to Organize a Collection using Facets: article | présentation Scientific publications on Web 3.0: article | présentation Integrating Online Publications and Scholarly Discourse in the Context of Digital Libraries: article | présentation Incorporating Semantics and Metadata as Part of the Article Authoring Process: article | présentation Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age: présentation Electronic publishing and bibliometrics: article | présentation (Source: pintiniblog)

The june, 2009 edition (14.2) of information research is now available online

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:21:53 +0100

Articles Include: + The effectiveness of Web search engines to index new sites from different countries + The publication activity of Region Västra Götaland: a bibliometric study of an administrative and political Swedish region during the period 1998-2006. + D-Fussion: a semantic selective dissemination of information service for the research community in digital libraries. + Archives, libraries and museums as communicators of memory in European Union projects. + Mapping techno-literary spaces: adapting multiple correspondence analysis for literature and art. + Personality traits and group-based information behaviour: an exploratory study Source: IR (Source: ResourceShelf)

The uk’s share of world research output: an investigation of different data sources and trends

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:54:46 +0100

The Research Information Network has released The UK's Share of World Research Output: An Investigation of Different Data Sources and Trends. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: Bibliometrics have come to play an increasing role in assessing the performance of researchers in the UK, as indeed in other parts of the world. But the complexities of both the data sources and the methods of analysis used are little understood by many of those who wish to make use of the results. Even the relatively simple matter of measuring the UK’s share of the global production of scientific publications is much more complex than appears at first sight, with traps for the unwary and huge differences in the published figures. The RIN's The UK's share of world research output report explains how these difference arise, and reflects on the implications for the measurement of UK scientific performance. It highlights that producers and publishers of bibliometric data must make much more transparent the choices they have made as to data sources and methodology, and the implications of those choices. Policy-makers and others interested in the health of the UK research base must also take greater care to interrogate the figures that they use and to present them accurately. Otherwise the risk is that policy and related decisions will be made on the basis of false assessments. Related Posts Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation Water Environment Research Foundation Adopts Embargo Free Access Policy Digital Videos from Columbia’s Scholarly Communication Program’s Research without Borders 2008-2009 Program Justice Department Launches Antitrust Investigation into Google Book Search Settlement Special Section in Economics Analysis and Policy on the Economics of Open Access (Source: DigitalKoans)

The uk’s share of world research output: an investigation of different data sources and trends

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:53:47 +0100

The uk’s share of world research output: an investigation of different data sources and trends

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Sepw updated

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:12:04 +0100

Here is the monthly update. You can go to the original to get the links: American Archivist 72, no. 1 (2009): Includes “A Brave New World: Archivists and Shareable Descriptive Metadata,” “Digital Preservation through Archival Collaboration: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences,” and other articles. Ariadne, no. 59 (2009): Includes “EThOS: From Project to Service,” “Publish and Cherish with Non-Proprietary Peer Review Systems,” “The REMAP Project: Steps towards a Repository-Enabled Information Environment,” “Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe,” and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2009. D-Lib Magazine 15, no. 5/6 (2009): Includes “Evaluation of Digital Repository Software at the National Library of Medicine”; “Towards a Repository-Enabled Scholar’s Workbench: RepoMMan, REMAP and Hydra”; and other articles. The International Information & Library Review 41, no. 1 (2009): Includes “E-Theses and Indian Academia: A Case Study of Nine ETD Digital Libraries and Formulation of Policies for a National Service,” “Managing Digital Information Resources in Africa: Preserving the Integrity of Scholarship,” and other articles. Journal of Archival Organization 7, no. 1/2 (2009): Includes “Choosing a Digital Asset Management System That’s Right for You”; “Planting Seeds for a Successful Institutional Repository: Role of the Archivist as Manager, Designer, and Policymaker”; “Why Archivists Should Be Leaders in Scholarly Communication”; and other articles. ...

Scholarly electronic publishing weblog june 10, 2009

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:01:30 +0100

Next Weblog update on 7/15/09. American Archivist 72, no. 1 (2009): Includes "A Brave New World: Archivists and Shareable Descriptive Metadata," "Digital Preservation through Archival Collaboration: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences," and other articles. Ariadne, no. 59 (2009): Includes "EThOS: From Project to Service," "Publish and Cherish with Non-Proprietary Peer Review Systems," "The REMAP Project: Steps towards a Repository-Enabled Information Environment," "Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe," and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2009. D-Lib Magazine 15, no. 5/6 (2009): Includes "Evaluation of Digital Repository Software at the National Library of Medicine"; "Towards a Repository-Enabled Scholar's Workbench: RepoMMan, REMAP and Hydra"; and other articles. The International Information & Library Review 41, no. 1 (2009): Includes "E-Theses and Indian Academia: A Case Study of Nine ETD Digital Libraries and Formulation of Policies for a National Service," "Managing Digital Information Resources in Africa: Preserving the Integrity of Scholarship," and other articles. Journal of Archival Organization 7, no. 1/2 (2009): Includes "Choosing a Digital Asset Management System That's Right for You"; "Planting Seeds for a Successful Institutional Repository: Role of the Archivist as Manager, Designer, and Policymaker"; "Why Archivists Should Be Leaders in Scholarly Communication"; and other articles. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 6, no. ...

Muzikjunky: /* subdisciplines */

Thu, 07 May 2009 23:53:22 +0100

Subdisciplines ← Previous revision Revision as of 23:53, 7 May 2009 Line 46: Line 46: * Public reference and other services * Public reference and other services * Scholarly communication (includes bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, Web metrics) * Scholarly communication (includes bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, Web metrics) - * Use of libraries in virtual-information environments + * Use of libraries in virtual information environments ==Types of library-science professionals== ==Types of library-science professionals== (Source: Library science - Revision history)

Links for 2009-05-06

Thu, 07 May 2009 03:57:49 +0100

Galaxy Zoo: Citizen science on Rails Awesome presentation on distributed citizen science. (tags: science2.0 citizenscience) PLoS ONE: The e-Index, Complementing the h-Index for Excess Citations An alternative metric. It get’s pretty complicated pretty fast, making it tough to add a coherant snippet. (tags: alternativemetrics h-index bibliometrics) The Mouse Trap: Science 2.0 : what is and what needs to be Sandeep Guatam’s thoughts on the Patil and Siegel article: “However, while they believe that all the tools for online collaboration are already in place, I on the other hand think we need a more formalized one-stop system for scientists, where all their sharing, networking and collaborating needs are met…” (tags: science2.0 science scholarlycommunication) This revolution will be digitized: online tools for radical collaboration â€” DMM Inspiring article fantasizing about the potential of more collaborative science – “What if everyone in the world were in your lab â€“ a â€˜hive mindâ€™ of sorts, but composed of countless creative intellects rather than mindless worker ants, and one in which resources, reagents and effort could be shared, along with ideas, in a manner not dictated by institutional and geographical constraints? by Chris Patil and Vivian Siegel* via Chris’ FF (tags: 2collab collaboration science science2.0 scholarlycommunication) (Source: LIS :: Michael Habib)

Links for 2009-05-06

Thu, 07 May 2009 03:57:49 +0100

Galaxy Zoo: Citizen science on Rails Awesome presentation on distributed citizen science. (tags: science2.0 citizenscience) PLoS ONE: The e-Index, Complementing the h-Index for Excess Citations An alternative metric. It get's pretty complicated pretty fast, making it tough to add a coherant snippet. (tags: alternativemetrics h-index bibliometrics) The Mouse Trap: Science 2.0 : what is and what needs to be Sandeep Guatam's thoughts on the Patil and Siegel article: "However, while they believe that all the tools for online collaboration are already in place, I on the other hand think we need a more formalized one-stop system for scientists, where all their sharing, networking and collaborating needs are met…" (tags: science2.0 science scholarlycommunication) This revolution will be digitized: online tools for radical collaboration — DMM Inspiring article fantasizing about the potential of more collaborative science - "What if everyone in the world were in your lab – a ‘hive mind’ of sorts, but composed of countless creative intellects rather than mindless worker ants, and one in which resources, reagents and effort could be shared, along with ideas, in a manner not dictated by institutional and geographical constraints? by Chris Patil and Vivian Siegel* via Chris' FF (tags: 2collab collaboration science science2.0 scholarlycommunication) (Source: LIS :: Michael Habib)

Muzikjunky: /* subdisciplines */

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:43:13 +0100

Subdisciplines ← Previous revision Revision as of 22:43, 29 April 2009 Line 45: Line 45: * [[Preservation (library and archival science)|Preservation]] * [[Preservation (library and archival science)|Preservation]] * Public reference and other services * Public reference and other services - * Scholarly communication (includes bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, webmetrics) + * Scholarly communication (includes bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, Web metrics) - * Use of libraries in virtual information environments + * Use of libraries in virtual-information environments ==Types of library-science professionals== ==Types of library-science professionals== (Source: Library science - Revision history)

The april, 2009 issue of the journal of the medical library association is now available online

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:36:25 +0100

Direct to Table of Contents (via Pubmed Central) Articles include: + A case study: using social tagging to engage students in learning Medical Subject Headings + Search strategies to identify information on adverse effects: a systematic review + Development of a new academic digital library: a study of usage data of a core medical electronic journal collection + A bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on Internet, video games, and cell phone addiction + The great contribution: Index Medicus, Index-Catalogue, and IndexCat + Web usability testing with a Hispanic medically underserved population + Disappearing act: decay of uniform resource locators in health care management journals + Medical librarians’ uses and perceptions of social tagging + Embedded librarians: one library’s model for decentralized service and Much More. (Source: ResourceShelf)

Muzikjunky: /* subdisciplines */

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:19:15 +0100

Subdisciplines ← Previous revision Revision as of 23:19, 23 April 2009 Line 37: Line 37: ==Subdisciplines== ==Subdisciplines== - Subdisciplines of library science include the study of: + Subdisciplines of library science include the study of * Human Information Behaviors (information-seeking, search strategies, and use) * Human Information Behaviors (information-seeking, search strategies, and use) * Knowledge Organization (which includes bibliographies, cataloging, classification, indexing & abstracting, metadata, semantic & syntactic analysis (controlled vocabularies, etc.)) * Knowledge Organization (which includes bibliographies, cataloging, classification, indexing & abstracting, metadata, semantic & syntactic analysis (controlled vocabularies, etc.)) Line 46: Line 46: * Public reference and other services * Public reference and other services * Scholarly communication (includes bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, webmetrics) * Scholarly communication (includes bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, webmetrics) + * Use of libraries in virtual information environments ==Types of library-science professionals== ==Types of library-science professionals== (Source: Library science - Revision history)

Muzikjunky: /* types of library science professionals */

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:18:39 +0100

Types of library science professionals ← Previous revision Revision as of 23:18, 23 April 2009 Line 47: Line 47: * Scholarly communication (includes bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, webmetrics) * Scholarly communication (includes bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, webmetrics) - ==Types of library science professionals== + ==Types of library-science professionals== * [[Librarian]] * [[Librarian]] * [[Archivist]] * [[Archivist]] (Source: Library science - Revision history)

Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100

I've always thought that Morgan & Claypool's Synthesis product is one of the best, most forward-looking products out there. They give quality, targeted, born-digital content of the kind that I can push out to faculty & grad students. And most of all, content that's worth paying for. They're also very receptive to the library community, welcoming input and feedback. And supporting our activities at conferences, etc.Now they've even given back by starting a series of basically Information Science lectures on Synthesis!Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services is edited by Gary Marchionini of the University of North Carolina. The series will publish 50- to 100-page publications on topics pertaining to information science and applications of technology to information discovery, production, distribution, and management. The scope will largely follow the purview of premier information and computer science conferences, such as ASIST, ACM SIGIR, ACM/IEEE JCDL, and ACM CIKM. Potential topics include, but not are limited to: data models, indexing theory and algorithms, classification, information architecture, information economics, privacy and identity, scholarly communication, bibliometrics and webometrics, personal information management , human information behavior, digital libraries, archives and preservation, cultural informatics, information retrieval evaluation, data fusion, relevance feedback, recommendation systems, question answering, natural language processing for retrieval, text summarization, multimedia retrieval, multilingual retrieval, and exploratory search.Take a look at the first four:Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences by Michael ThelwallExploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm by Ryen W. White, Resa A. RothNew Concepts in Digital Reference by R. ...

New at the arxiv.org e-print archives

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:30:21 +0100

arXiv is making collocation by authors easier. Public author identifiers have been introduced.If you are an author of articles on arXiv, you may opt-in to create a public author identifier which supports interaction with Facebook, a myarticles widget to allow dynamic inclusion of a list of your articles in web pages, and provides HTML and Atom feeds of your arXiv papers.It is a long-term goal of arXiv to accurately identify and disambiguate all authors of all articles in arXiv. Such identification would provide accurate results for queries such as "show me all the other papers by the particular John Smith that wrote this paper", something that can be done only approximately with text-based searches. It would also permit construction of an author-article graph which is useful for relevance assessment and bibliometric analysis. (Source: New)

Arxiv adds author pages, feeds, widgets

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100

arXiv has added a new feature, Author Identifiers: It is a long-term goal of arXiv to accurately identify and disambiguate all authors of all articles in arXiv. Such identification would provide accurate results for queries such as "show me all the other papers by the particular John Smith that wrote this paper", something that can be done only approximately with text-based searches. It would also permit construction of an author-article graph which is useful for relevance assessment and bibliometric analysis. Since 2005 arXiv has used authority records that associate user accounts with articles authored by that user. These records support the endorsement system. The use of public author identifiers as a way to build services upon this data is new in 2009. Initially, users must opt-in to have a public author identifier and to expose the record of their articles on arXiv for use in other services. At some later date we hope to be able to improve our authority records to the point where we can create public author identifiers for all authors of arXiv articles without needing to enlist the help of each author to check their record before opting in. The services we offer based on author identifiers are: simple list of papers as an HTML page you can link to (e.g. [link]) an Atom feed of articles (e.g. [link]) a way to dynamically include the list of your publications in your own home page using the JavaScript myarticles widget an arXiv Facebook application providing a convenient way to alert friends to your arXiv articles and to comment on articles within Facebook It would also be beneficial to associate author records in arXiv with author records in other scholarly communication system, for example with the SPIRES database in high-energy physics. ...

Divers (05/04/09)

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:38:15 +0100

- MyID.is Now In Public Beta, Aims To Become The Digital Certification Standard(source: TechCrunch, 27/03/09)- Preservation of Web Resources(source: JISC)- Comparing Bibliometric Statistics Obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus(source: arXiv, 31/03/09)"For more than 40 years, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, now part of Thomson Reuters) produced the only available bibliographic databases from which bibliometricians could compile large-scale bibliometric indicators. ISI's citation indexes, now regrouped under the Web of Science (WoS), were the major sources of bibliometric data until 2004, when Scopus was launched by the publisher Reed Elsevier. For those who perform bibliometric analyses and comparisons of countries or institutions, the existence of these two major databases raises the important question of the comparability and stability of statistics obtained from different data sources. This paper uses macro-level bibliometric indicators to compare results obtained from the WoS and Scopus. It shows that the correlations between the measures obtained with both databases for the number of papers and the number of citations received by countries, as well as for their ranks, are extremely high (R2 > .99). There is also a very high correlation when countries' papers are broken down by field. The paper thus provides evidence that indicators of scientific production and citations at the country level are stable and largely independent of the database."- Microsoft abandonne Encarta(source: Urfist, 31/03/09)- How People Read Books Online: Mining and Visualizing Web Logs for Use Information (source: Human-Computer Interaction Lab, université du Maryland / via ResourceShelf, 31/03/09)- LIFE.comPhotos en ligne du magazine Life et de Getty Images.- The Changing Face of identity management(source: EContent, vol. 32, n° 3, avr. ...

A bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on internet, video games, and cell phone addiction.

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100

A bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on Internet, video games, and cell phone addiction.

J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 Apr;97(2):102-7

Authors: Carbonell X, Guardiola E, Beranuy M, Bellés A

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to locate the scientific literature dealing with addiction to the Internet, video games, and cell phones and to characterize the pattern of publications in these areas. METHODS: One hundred seventy-nine valid articles were retrieved from PubMed and PsycINFO between 1996 and 2005 related to pathological Internet, cell phone, or video game use. RESULTS: The years with the highest numbers of articles published were 2004 (n = 42) and 2005 (n = 40). The most productive countries, in terms of number of articles published, were the United States (n = 52), China (n = 23), the United Kingdom (n = 17), Taiwan (n = 13), and South Korea (n = 9). The most commonly used language was English (65.4%), followed by Chinese (12.8%) and Spanish (4.5%). Articles were published in 96 different journals, of which 22 published 2 or more articles. The journal that published the most articles was Cyberpsychology & Behavior (n = 41). Addiction to the Internet was the most intensely studied (85.3%), followed by addiction to video games (13.6%) and cell phones (2.1%). CONCLUSIONS: The number of publications in this area is growing, but it is difficult to conduct precise searches due to a lack of clear terminology. ...

Health literacy: an exploratory bibliometric analysis, 1997-2007.

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Health literacy: an exploratory bibliometric analysis, 1997-2007.

J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 Apr;97(2):148-50

Authors: Bankson HL

PMID: 19404510 [PubMed - in process]

(Source: PubMed: "Journal of the Medi...)

Efficiency and scholarly information practices

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:50:20 +0100

There is a good article* in the most recent issue of JASIS&T by a group of Canadian scholars who challenge James Evans’ controversial claim that the increase in online availability of research publications has resulted in more focused and narrowly concentrated scholarly citation patterns. Evans’ study (2008) was the subject of a previous post on the ‘narrowing prospective.’ Vincent Larivière, Yves Gingras and Eric Archambault present research findings that suggest that the dispersion of citations has actually increased over the past century. According to their research, the range of literature cited in contemporary scholarship grows over time as a function of the total supply or availability of published research. The percentage of papers cited at least one time increases steadily as the body of literature grows and matures. They characterize the implications of these findings in fairly categorical terms: All these measures converge to demonstrate that citations are not becoming more concentrated but increasingly dispersed, and one can therefore argue that the scientific system is increasingly efficient at using published knowledge. Moreover, what our data shows is not a tendency toward an increasingly exclusive and elitist scientific system, but rather one that is increasingly democratic. Larivière, F., Gingras, Y., & Archambault, E. (2009): 861. I was struck by the authors’ references to the ’scientific system’ of scholarly communication, since it connotes not only a methodical approach but also a set of norms and expectations about the progressive advancement of human knowledge. Elsewhere in the paper, the authors acknowledge that the humanities are notably less ‘efficient’ in consuming and re-cycling citations from the journal literature. ...

Mini-symposium bibliometrics live op wurtv

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Vanochtend tijdens de koffie ging de discussie over de vraag waarom we het een mini-symposium noemen ons minisoposium over bibliometrics komende woensdag. Wel het is een uit de hand gelopen workshop dat wij altijd de eerste woensdag van de maand organiseren. Meestal alleen onze afdeling. Soms de bibliotheek. Dit keer dachten we dat het aardig was om het ook aan te kondigen binnen de universiteit. Zaaltje voor ongeveer vijftig man. Moet kunnen. Ik opperde of ik het ook aan een paar bloggers/blog lezezers kon laten weten want ik wist er in elk geval die die wel zou willen komen. Oké daarom, daarom ook buiten de universiteit bekendheid geven. Op zo'n korte termijn zou het wel losplopen. Drie mailing lijsten gemailed. Nedbib, metis beheerders en repository managers. En twee weken later hebben we 130 aanmelding. Het mini aan het symposium is dat we het beperken tot vijf korte sessies. Het aantal aanmeldingen groeide als kool schijnbaar omdat het een periode is dat mensen kunnen. En dat de aanstaande peer review wel leeft bij de onderzoekers. Er komen ongeveer tachtig bezoekers van allerhande groepen van de universiteit, een stuk of dertig van buiten Wageningen en zo'n 20 van onze eigen bibliotheek organisatie. Voor de thuisblijvers, die op de korte termijn niet konden komen. Het wordt live uitgezoden via WURTV op http://wurtv.wur.nl/presentations/C222/ (Alleen te volgen met IE) Het programma, waar we ons strak aan zullen houden staat op onze Desktop News. De exacte aanvang van de tijden zal ik via mijn tweetstream doorgeven -weer zo'n handig gebruik van Twitter. (Source: WoW! Wouter over het Web)

Mini symposium bibliometrics at wageningen ur

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Op dit moment werken we ons bij de bibliotheek uit de naad om de bibliometrische analyses voor zes onderzoeksscholen af te ronden. Deze analyses vormen onderdeel van de zelf assessment die alle leerstoelgroepen en onderzoeksscholen moeten schrijven in voorbereiding op de peer review die in juni plaats vindt.Wij maken voor deze klus gebruik van metadata van alle Wageningse publicaties die we verzamelen in onze repository Wageningen Yield, in combinatie met de gegevens van Web of Science en de Essential Science Indicators. We hebben hiermee een unieke dienst gecreëerd op basis van onze repository waarmee we ieder moment dit soort analyses uit kunnen voeren. Om de afronding van deze klus te vieren organiseren we als bibliotheek een mini-symposium over bibliometrie aan Wageningen UR. De presentaties zullen in het Engels zijn omdat ook onze internationale AIO's welkom zijn. Deelname aan het symposium is gratis, van te voren registreren wel verplicht. Het programma ziet er als volgt uit:Mini symposium Bibliometrics at Wageningen UR, 1 April, 09.30-12.00This mini symposium is intended for those who are interested in the question "where to publish my next article". The symposium is organised by Wageningen UR Library on Wednesday, 1 April 2009 from 09.30-12.00 in room C321 at the Forum building.Programme:- 09.30-09.50: New functionalities of Metis and WaY (Peter van der Togt, Repository Manager)- 09.50-10.10: Bibliometric analyses at Wageningen UR (Wouter Gerritsma, Information Specialist)- 10.10-10.30: Publication strategy (Marianne Renkema, Information Specialist)- 10.30-10.45: Questions and discussion- 10.45-11.00: Coffee break- 11.00-11.20: Publication analysis of GIScience in the Netherlands (Marco van Veller, Information Specialist)- 11.20-11.40: Wageningen UR in the international rankings (Wouter Gerritsma, Information Specialist)- 11.40-12. ...

Comparing bibliometric country-by-country rankings derived from the web of science and scopus: the effect of poorly cited journals in oncology

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:00:00 +0100

This article addresses the robustness of country-by-country rankings according to the number of published articles and their average citation impact in the field oncology. It compares rankings based on bibliometric indicators derived from the Web of Science (WoS) with those calculated from Scopus. It is found that the oncological journals in Scopus not covered by WoS tend to be nationally oriented journals, i.e. they mainly serve a national research community, and play as of yet a more peripheral role in the international journal communication system. In expanding the set of WoS journals with Scopus journals not indexed for WoS, the countries that profit most in terms of percentage of published documents tend to show a decline in their average citation rate. This paradoxical finding is further explained by mathematical—statistical considerations, and interpreted as a short term effect. The paper discusses its implications for the construction of bibliometric indicators. (Source: Journal of Information Science current issue)

Three new web reference tool reviews from dr. peter jacso

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:46:10 +0100

+ Pop Culture Universe: Icons Idols Ideas Very current, and rich content about every topical –if not regional- aspect of the pop culture universe ranging from pop arts and entertainment to pop couture and cuisine through the digital aggregation of 360 print ready-reference sources on the subject. The use of the advanced search mode requires caution because distinct data elements offered for filtering the search (country, time period) are absent in many records. + SCImago Country Rank Database In spite of some content limitations, this exceptionally well-designed open-access component of the SCImago Journal & Country Rank database is an outstanding source for bibliometric, scientiometric and informetric research about scientific publishing productivity and impact of nations. + Information Please Almanac Among all the mainstream almanacs this is by far the most comprehensive and the most current since it is continuously updated. The impressively smart software brings the best out of the rich content. It sweetens the deal that it is free, although you pay a price by enduring appalling Web ads – familiar from commercial television. (Source: ResourceShelf)

Libworld croatia

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:07:44 +0100

We continue our LibWorld series with a a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean Sea: Croatia. As guest authors we welcome Sofija Konjević and Bojan Macan. Sofija Konjević, MSc Information Science, senior librarian, is employed at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb since 1997. She currently works on interlibrary loan and maintains some library web pages. She is interested in electronic journals, worked on electronic journals project and conducted user survey on subject. Bojan Macan works as a librarian at the Ruđer Boškovic’ Institute Library since 2005. In general he is interested in new technologies in libraries and bibliometrics analysis. At the moment he is working on implementation of open source library management system Koha in the RBI Library and is also involved in Institutional repository project. Bojan is PhD student of Information sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. Croatian biblioblogosphere Introduction Croatia is a small European country with approximately 4.5 million people. According to research conducted in July 2008 by Gfk-Croatia approximately 50% of citizens older than 15 years have access to the Internet, but only 39% of them are Internet users, what is much less than European average (47%). Internet is mostly used for reading daily news (66%), checking e-mail (64%) and searching via search engines (59%)1. According to the statistical data of the Republic of Croatia – Central Bureau of Statistics in 2001 there were 1953 libraries in Croatia. In 2004, according to same source, there were 1671 libraries2. Croatian biblioblogosphere Croatian blogosphere in general is just a few years old. First blog providers, www.mojblog.hr and www.blog.hr, appeared in 2004.3. Afterwards the number of blogs was growing rapidly. Estimated number of blogs in Croatian blogosphere registered at moj.blog.hr: in 2008 was about half a million4. ...

Bibliometrics of global malaria vaccine research.

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Bibliometrics of global malaria vaccine research.

Health Info Libr J. 2009 Mar;26(1):22-31

Authors: Garg KC, Kumar S, Madhavi Y, Bahl M

Objectives: This study evaluates malaria vaccine research carried out in different parts of the world during 1972-2004 using different bibliometric indicators. Method: Data have been downloaded from PubMed for the period 1972-2004 using the keywords (malaria* or plasmodium or falciparum) and (vaccine*) in the title and abstract fields. The study examined the pattern of growth of the output, its geographical distribution, profile of different countries in different subfields and pattern of citations using GOOGLE Scholar. Results: Malaria vaccine research output is gradually increasing. The USA, followed by the UK and Australia contributed the highest number of papers. Publication activity has decreased in Switzerland and Sweden, but has increased in Brazil and China. The majority of the countries have focused on the development of asexual blood stage malaria. Citations per paper and incidence of high-quality papers for the USA, the UK, Papua New Guinea and Denmark are more than the average. The majority of the prolific institutions are located in the USA, the UK, France and Australia. Conclusion: The last two decades have witnessed considerable growth in research output in this field, while a successful malaria vaccine still remains elusive. Interestingly, the countries like the USA, the UK and Australia that lead in the quantity, quality and citation of this output are often not those directly affected by malaria.

PMID: 19245640 [PubMed - in process]

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One ta journal's deliberations about oa

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Jonas Nordin, Historisk tidskrift i nutid och framtid: Några reflektioner över läsarsynpunkter, bibliometri och Open Access, Historisk tidskrift, 128, 4 (2008). Thanks to Martin Rundkvist for the alert and for this English summary of the Swedish: Historisk tidskrift, present and future: Reflections on readers' reactions, bibliometrics and Open Access In this article the author recounts his experiences as editor of Historisk tidskrift. The starting point is a poll of the journal's readers presented at the triannual meeting of the Swedish Historical Association in Lund in April 2008. Readers told that they read Historisk tidskrift primarily in order to be up to date on Swedish historical research. The journal reflects fairly well the research interests of Swedish historians. However, concerns for the need to internationalise research and to improve one's qualifications increasingly govern how Swedish historians publish. This affects the attitude to Historisk tidskrift, which is regarded as too provincial. These and other issues are discussed by the author. The second part of the article discusses two partly intertwined issues of significance to the journal's future: Bibliometrics and Open Access. The author is sceptical about bibliometric analyses and points to methodological difficulties in applying such measures to the humanities. Nevertheless, Historisk tidskrift will have to take bibliometrics into account. The author is favourably disposed towards Open Access. However, several problems need to be solved before Historisk tidskrift can become a full Open Access journal. If the journal loses its subscribers, alternative sources of funds has to be found to pay for editorial work. Before this is done, the present form of publication has to be retained. (Source: Open Access News)

Notes on scottish repository conference

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Sarah Gentleman, Making research accessible: repositories, open access and the issue of usage, Research Information Network, undated but recent. Notes on Open Access Research Repository - What's in it for you? (Stirling, February 13, 2009). ... The speakers covered why digital repositories are important for Scottish universities, why it’s important to populate repositories and what the challenges are, the legal perspective on open access publishing and bibliometrics and research assessment. ... I think one issue might be the word ‘repository’ not being particularly attractive to researchers. The Netherlands seemed to cleverly get round this by calling their repository the Cream of Science which was originally set up by asking some of the top researchers to contribute and thereby encouraging others to follow suit. ... (Source: Open Access News)

Diss of the day

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:29:55 +0100

This bog-standard survey of Australian IRs has a sting in the tail for librarian repository-rats: Most repositories in Australia are run by libraries and librarians. This is probably appropriate as librarians are information managers by profession. However, repository work also involves an understanding of information systems and technology, awareness of the detailed world of scholarly communication as well as more specialised information science skills such as informetrics, bibliometrics, webometrics and log files analyses. There is clearly a need for more specialised training or education, either as a part of, or in addition to, existing programs (Zuccala, et al., 2008). Mm. Yeah. Because librarians, they don’t know nothin’ ’bout them complicated computer thingamajigs. And you’d never go to a librarian for scholarly-communication or bibliometrics information. I say that the open-access world systematically disrespects librarians, and nobody believes me. Well, it’s the truth. I myself am deeply offended by the paragraph I have quoted above, because there isn’t a skill or knowledge on that list that I don’t possess in at least rudimentary measure. All your logfiles are belong to me. Also, cruddy orthography wholly aside (First Monday still hasn’t learned anything about text artisanry), the authors left out copyright management. Just sayin’, here. You can’t tell me copyright isn’t as much a problem in Australia as the rest of the world. (Source: Caveat Lector)

International workshop on scientometric studies

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100

.Workshop on Scientometric Studies related to the Biomedical SciencesHavana City, Cuba, 28th June to July 1st, 2010.First Call for PapersThe National Center for Scientific Research (CNIC) is pleased to invite you to participate at the 15th International Scientific Congress which will take place from June 28th through July 1st, 2010, at the International Convention Center, in Havana, Cuba, in the framework of the 45th Anniversary of our Center’s foundation.During the congress, our Network of Scientometric Studies for Higher Education (REDEC) will organize the 1st International Workshop on Scientometric Studies related to the Biomedical Sciences, sponsored by the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education (MES), the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), and the Alpha Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS, Greece).The main objective of the workshop will be the presentation of national and international experiences in the use and validation of scientometric indicators and techniques of bibliometric mapping for the analysis of biomedical domains.Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Scientometric analysis of the health sector: global and regional experiences Research assessments in the Health Sciences: a bibliometric perspective. Bibliometric indicators for the evaluation of scientific performances: useand abuse. Bibliometric mapping of biomedical domains: from scientometrics to scientography.Papers must be proposed as oral presentations or posters. Authors are invited to send to the organizing committee, in Word or rtf format, the following information: title of the paper name and institutional affiliation of the author(s) a structured abstract (no more than 500 words) from three to five keywords postal address and e-mail of the first authorOnce accepted, the full text of papers must be sent in pdf format for its inclusionin the Congress Proceedings. ...

Tried but not yet trusted

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:55:27 +0100

Reputation and trust are closely related and hard won. Two snippets dealing with the evolving landscape of reputation capital in universities caught my eye in this week’s Times Higher. The first relates to the proposed European Reference Index for the Humanities, funded by the European Science Foundation, which had announced it would grade journals into categories A (’high-ranking international publications’), B (’standard international publications’) and C (’publications of local/regional significance’). Rather as has happened in Australia whose league table of journals I mentioned in a previous post, there has been opposition to this idea - chiefly from academic editors of journals. So many of them have now threatened to boycott the index that the steering committee has been forced to drop the idea of the classification. It is doing so reluctantly, claiming that the classification was never intended to denote hierarchy. This might be indicative of a certain naïveté, or it may reveal, ironically, just how deep the concern about reputational damage potentially caused by rankings now runs, particularly in the UK where bibliometric measures of various kinds are being considered by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) for the new Research Excellence Framework (REF). Academics worry about any new measure which might be tossed into the bibliometric mix - and it is rather difficult to see how publication in a journal deemed of important local/regional significance but explicitly not of high-ranking international significance is a category judgement rather than a value judgement. The second reveals that Evidence, a UK data analysis consultancy which has been working with HEFCE as it designs the REF, has been acquired by Thomson Reuters with whom it previously had a ’strategic alliance’. ...

Los opacs para evaluar las ciencias sociales y humanas

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Ya está disponible on-line como artículo en prensa en la sede del Journal of Informetrics el último trabajo del grupo. Quien ande habitualmente aquí lo conocerá ya que lo presentamos en el V Foro y la STI de Viena y colgamos las presentaciones, en cualquier caso esta es la referencia para los interesados en el tema: Daniel Torres-Salinas y Henk F. Moed. Library Catalog Analysis as a tool in studies of social sciences and humanities: An exploratory study of published book titles in Economics. Journal of Informetrics. 2009. [Article in Press, Corrected Proof.]Resumen: This paper explores the use of Library Catalog Analysis (LCA), defined as the application of bibliometric or informetric techniques to a set of library online catalogs, to describe quantitatively a scientific-scholarly field on the basis of published book titles. It focuses on its value as a tool in studies of Social Sciences and Humanities, especially its cognitive structures, main book publishers and the research performance of its actors. The paper proposes an analogy model between traditional citation analysis of journal articles and Library Catalog Analysis of book titles. It presents the outcomes of an exploratory study of book titles in Economics included in 42 academic library catalogs from 7 countries. It describes the process of data collection and cleaning, and applies a series of indicators and thematic mapping techniques. It illustrates how LCA can be fruitfully used to assess book production and research performance at the level of an individual researcher, a research department, an entire country and a book publisher. It discusses a number of issues that should be addressed in follow-up studies and concludes that LCA of published book titles can be developed into a powerful and useful tool in studies of Social Sciences and Humanities.Enlace a la versión On-Lineec3noticias el blog del grupoEC3 torressalinas@gmail.com (Source: EC3noticias)

Appeal of oa journals about the same in the north and the south

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Tove Faber Frandsen, Attracted to open access journals: a bibliometric author analysis in the field of biology, Journal of Documentation, January 2009. (The DOI-based URL doesn't work for me at the moment.) Purpose – Scholars from developing countries have limited access to research publications due to expensive subscription costs. However, the open access movement is challenging the constraint to access. Consequently, researchers in developing countries are often mentioned as major recipients of the benefits when advocating open access (OA). One of the implications of that argument is that authors from developing countries are more likely to perceive open access positively than authors from developed countries. The present study aims to investigate the use of open access by researchers from developing countries and is thus a supplement to the existing author surveys and interviews. Design/methodology/approach – Bibliometric analyses of both publishing behaviour and citing behaviour in relation to OA publishing provides evidence of the impact of open access on developing countries. Findings – The results of the multivariate linear regression show that open access journals are not characterised by a different composition of authors from the traditional toll access journals. Furthermore, the results show that authors from developing countries do not cite open access more than authors from developed countries. Originality/value – The paper argues that authors from developing countries are not attracted to open access more than authors from developed countries. Only this abstract is free online from the journal site, but also see the self-archived preprint. (Source: Open Access News)

Citations of oa journals in three scientific fields

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Tove Faber Frandsen, The integration of open access journals in the scholarly communication system: Three science fields, Information Processing & Management, January 2009. Abstract: The greatest number of open access journals (OAJs) is found in the sciences and their influence is growing. However, there are only a few studies on the acceptance and thereby integration of these OAJs in the scholarly communication system. Even fewer studies provide insight into the differences across disciplines. This study is an analysis of the citing behaviour in journals within three science fields: biology, mathematics, and pharmacy and pharmacology. It is a statistical analysis of OAJs as well as non-OAJs including both the citing and cited side of the journal to journal citations. The multivariate linear regression reveals many similarities in citing behaviour across fields and media. But it also points to great differences in the integration of OAJs. The integration of OAJs in the scholarly communication system varies considerably across fields. The implications for bibliometric research are discussed. Only this abstract is free online at the journal site, but also see the self-archived preprint. (Source: Open Access News)

Rjwilmsi: gen fixes: (1) set identical unnamed references to use named refs (1), using awb

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:11:54 +0100

gen fixes: (1) set identical unnamed references to use named refs (1), using AWB ← Previous revision Revision as of 17:11, 4 January 2009 Line 1: Line 1: - '''Library science''' is an [[interdisciplinary]] field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of [[management]], [[information technology]], [[education]], and other areas to [[library|libraries]]; the collection, organization, [[Preservation: Library and Archival Science|preservation]] and dissemination of information resources; and the [[political economy]] of information. + '''Library science''' is an [[interdisciplinary]] field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of [[management]], [[information technology]], [[education]], and other areas to [[library|libraries]]; the collection, organization, [[Preservation: Library and Archival Science|preservation]] and dissemination of information resources; and the [[political economy]] of information. Historically, library science has also included [[archival science]].<ref> Harris, Michael H. ''History of Libraries in the Western World''. 4th ed. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, 1995. 3 - "The distinction between a library and an archive is relatively modern"</ref> This includes how information resources are organized to serve the needs of select user groups, how people interact with classification systems and technology, how information is acquired, evaluated and applied by people in and outside of libraries as well as cross-culturally, how people are trained and educated for careers in libraries, the [[ethics]] that guide library service and organization, the legal status of libraries and information resources, and the applied science of [[computer technology]] used in [[documentation]] and [[records management]]. Historically, library science has also included [[archival science]].<ref> Harris, Michael H. ...

Comps readings this week

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

White, H.D. & McCain, K.W. (1989) Bibliometrics. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 24, 119-186.Good, but like all ARIST articles, long. Not sure as valuable as some of the other things in this area.MacKenzie, D. A., & Wajcman, J. (1999). Introductory essay: The social shaping of technology. In D. A. MacKenzie, & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The social shaping of technology (2nd ed., pp. 3-27). Philadelphia: Open University Press.- in my initial set of readings I emphasized science, but it does really make sense to also look at technology (so sss became sts). This essay first looks at technological determinism - technologies change then they have a one-way impact on society - as a theory of society and then as a theory of technology. The authors are arguing for some middle ground. Technology is important and can shape society, but technology can also be political and can be shaped by society. It can require certain social patterns or be "more compatible with some social relations than others" (p5). They go on to discuss the relationship of science to technology and more about economic and other ways society shapes technology. I should probably re-read this to make sure I've got the whole thing.Winner, L. (1999). Do artifacts have politics? In D. A. MacKenzie, & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The social shaping of technology (2nd ed., pp. 28-40). Philadelphia: Open University Press.- this is the standard article on this topic that everyone cites. It's not as clear or thorough as the article above, but is worthwhile. He also takes the middle ground: "rather than insist that we immediately reduce everything to the interplay of social forces, [technological politics] suggests that we pay attention to the characteristics of technical objects and the meaning of those characteristics" (so not technologicial determinism of society and not societal determinism of technology). ...

Driver comment on the eu green paper

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

DRIVER has released its comment on the EU green paper, Copyright in the Knowledge Economy. (Thanks to Birgit Schmidt.) Excerpt: ...(19) Should the scientific and research community enter into licensing schemes with publishers in order to increase access to works for teaching or research purposes? Are there examples of successful licensing schemes enabling online use of works for teaching or research purposes?... DRIVER’s mission is to expand its content base with high quality Open Access research output, including textual research papers and other scholarly publications. The DRIVER consortium therefore sees a number of reasons why the scientific and research community should aim to increase their influence on the development and adoption of alternative licensing schemes. Over the last years several licensing schemes have been developed which provide free access to copyrighted work for readers.... DRIVER recommends European harmonization and promotion of the above licenses (MIT, NIH, CC, SURF,...) in order to raise awareness about the rights of the author and strengthen his position further.... DRIVER only endorses [hybrid OA journal] models when there is an obvious pay-off on the side of the [reduced] subscription costs. A “hybrid model”, where article processing fees would be paid on top of subscription fees, is not acceptable.... One forward-looking result of the [PEER study] project may be to establish a consistent interface between an increasing number of publishers and repositories. This would enable licensing schemes between publishers and institutions which include immediate or embargoed deposit in institutional repositories. ...

The oa mandate at napier university

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Napier University adopted an OA mandate in April 2008 to take effect in January 2009. (Thanks to Stevan Harnad.) Excerpt: A - Material which represents the total publicly available research and scholarly output of the University is to be located and deposited as fulltext in the digital Repository@Napier. It is University policy to maximise the visibility, usage and impact of its research output by enabling central online access to that corpus of work for all potential users and for researchers throughout the world. B - In contrast, exceptionally, mandatory deposit of descriptive metadata for open access and identification of intellectual output will apply, where academic outputs are deemed suitable for commercial exploitation, where individual or institutional, royalties or revenues legally accrue from such outputs, or where ownership of output is complex as in the film industry. C – All research output is to be self-deposited, so that the repository forms the official record of the University’s research publications; all publication lists required for administration or promotion will be generated from this source. D – The comprehensive, online, University repository will be used in future to respond to bibliometric research assessments with reduced input and effort from staff. E – Academic staff, research associates, research assistants, research students and other members of University staff are entitled and required to deposit digital copies of refereed and accepted research documents, or material which has been displayed, performed or publicly shown, to the extent that such documents or materials constitute work carried out by you during the course of your employment and which relates or is capable of relating to the business of the University. ...

Webometrics workshop

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

.Webometrics workshop 22-23 January, 2009 in Wolverhampton, UKHosted by the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Grouphttp://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/workshopJan2009.htmlThis Webometrics workshop is aimed at existing researchers working in the area of Webometrics (gathering and analysing data from the web on a large scale) and social scientists wishing to find out about webometrics.Participants will receive training in the use of Webometric methods in social science research as well as hearing presentations on Webometrics topics and having the opportunity to share their own research (not necessarily webometrics) and to meet other researchers. The cost is freebut participants will be expected to make their own accommodation arrangements, for example asking for the university discount in the local Britannia Hotel http://www.britanniahotels.com/hotel_home.asp?Page=123, which is in the city centre and 5 minutes from the train station andUniversity. Participants will receive a free draft copy of a new introductory book on webometrics.All are welcome but please email m.thelwall wlv.ac.uk to pre-book as numbers are limited.Schedule:Thursday 22 January.11.30 Welcome and coffee12.00 Lunch at local café2pm-5pm Open forum each attendee has up to 15 minutes to give a formalor informal presentation of their research, with 15 minutes for questions.7-9pm Dinner at a world-class Wolverhampton curry houseFriday 23 January9.30-10.30 Presentation by Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton -Introduction to webometrics methods10.30-12.00 Computer workshop practical training sessions with the LexiURLSearcher and SocSciBot 4 software12-2pm Lunch at local café2-3pm Webometric vs. bibliometric profiles of oceanographic researchinstitutes by Tina Ruschenburg, Universität Bielefeld3-3. ...

Comps readings this week

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

McCain, K. W. (1990). Mapping authors in intellectual space: A technical overview. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 41(6), 433-443.Highly recommended. Pretty short, straight to the point, software references are of course dated, but not so much so that you can't figure out a current equivalent. Explains what the deal is with ACA - both the raw graph, how to get the authors, and then how to do similarity measures and display the information.Glanzel, W., & Moed, H. F. (2002). Journal impact measures in bibliometric research. Scientometrics, 53(2), 171-193.Pretty straight forward review. Easy to read. One thing that I believe but that surprises me (hadn't occurred to me before):ISI classifies documents into types. In calculating the numerator of the IF, ISI counts citations to all types of documents, whereas as citable documents in the denominator ISI includes as a standard only normal articles, notes, and reviews. However, editorials, letters and several other types are cited rather frequently in a number of journals. (p.181)Really?! Makes sense, but hmmm. Apparently really inflates Lancet ("real" IF would be 43% lower).Also nice discussion of issues with the IF, journal aging/productivity (cited half-life really isn't appropriate), some of the other options (and speculations why they haven't caught on), can't use normal distributions - have to use Pareto or other skewed (negative binomial, geometric, Poisson...)- to compare IFs.DeSanctis, G., & Poole, M. S. (1994). Capturing the complexity in advanced technology use: Adaptive structuration theory. Organization Science, 5(2), 121-147.Oh, the horror. I guess I just don't get it. Seemed to be covering the same ground as some of the social informatics pieces...Borgman, C. L., & Furner, J. (2002). Scholarly communication and bibliometrics. In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) (pp. 2-72). ...

Comprehensive exam readings

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100

I'm the last one at the iSchool at Maryland to go through the comprehensive exam process. They've approved a new process for the doctoral program that has an "integrative" paper for the hurdle to jump before advancing to candidacy.Comprehensive exams are handled differently in the ischool, because we have such diverse areas of research. I saw that in some socy departments, you're basically given a list -- here's what you must know if you're going to call yourself this flavor of sociologist. For us, we craft our lists around a story of how we define an area and what we're interested in studying. The typical thing is 5 areas - 2 major and 3 minor - but some people have done 3 major and 1 minor. Two of these areas must be communication and information transfer and information retrieval. My areas are:Communication and Information Transfer (major)Science and Technology Studies (major)Computer Mediated Communication (minor)Information Retrieval (minor)Research Methods (minor)In Communication I emphasize scholarly communication, but I've of course got a lot of stuff on communication models and theories, information seeking, diffusion of innovations, and information behavior of scientists and engineers. (total 42 articles & chapters + 3 whole books).In STS - I'm all over the place, but luckily I have two really strong committee members who have given me *a lot* of needed guidance. My sub-areas are scientific norms; social studies of knowledge; inscription, authorship, and the dissemination of scientific work; scientists in groups; the laboratory; science and technology policy; and public understanding of science. (total 28 articles & chapters + 9 books)In CMC, I look at CMC (general aspects and norms and behaviors), social computing technologies, social networks and online communities, people working together online (like data and information sharing as well as collaboration), and then some example studies. ...

Complementing rin

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:43:18 +0100

The UK’s Research Information Network (RIN) has just published a document aimed at UK university Vice Chancellors, Presidents and Principals, Ensuring a bright future for research libraries. Jim Michalko, Lorcan Dempsey and I met with representatives of RIN, along with other European library and research organisations, after our recent European Partner meeting in Paris, and it seems clear – as Lorcan remarks in his blog - that our work agenda for the RLG Partnership coincides in various ways with the work being undertaken by RIN. Here are a few examples. In Linking library content and collections to research strategies they state: No single institution can provide all the publications and other information resources – digital and non-digital – that their researchers need to consult in the course of their research… HEIs therefore should … seek to exploit the potential for collaboration with other libraries, including the national libraries and the five designated major research libraries in England. In our Shared Print Collections programme, we say that A new business model is needed that will enable research libraries to establish partnerships capable of sustaining the long-term future of print collections, distributing the costs and benefits of acquiring and preserving content in tangible formats, and allowing aggregate holdings to be “right sized” in view of aggregate demand. ...

Un decálogo para usar indicadores bibliométricos

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:32:32 +0100

La gente de Thomson Reuters ha elaborado un Libro blanco sobre el uso de indicadores bibliométricos para la evaluación de la investigación (Pendlebury, 2008) en el que se desarrolla un decálogo con recomendaciones y precauciones a tener en consideración para usar indicadores bibliométricos. Yo os voy a ofrecer mi traducción libre, muy libre, del decálogo: 1.- ¿Es potable la fuente de la que bebemos?: Debemos escoger la fuente adecuada para obtener los datos para nuestro estudio, o al menos ser conscientes de las carencias y precauciones con las que hay que tomar los datos obtenidos. Por ejemplo, Science Citation Index suele considerarse una fuente en la que la biomedicina está bien representada; no así la informática. 2.- Escoge apropiadamente (a) el tipo de publicación, (b) el área de trabajo y (c) el marco temporal: (a) Si buscamos sin más la producción de un autor nos encontraremos con artículos pero también con cartas, contribuciones a congresos, editoriales, revisiones y puede que sólo queramos su producción científica y no su producción como científico. (b) Si buscamos los trabajos de bibliometría únicamente en Scientometrics y su categoría (por llamarla de alguna manera), Computer Science, nos quedaremos sin los trabajos publicados en todas esas revistas a las que les gusta tener un artículo especial en el que se relatan éxitos bibliométricos de la revista. ...