The development of China's scholarly publications in library and information science, 1979‐2009

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (6/7) ◽  
pp. 435-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengzhi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Scholarly Publications

scholarly journals Almost Halfway There: An Analysis of the Open Access Behaviors of Academic Librarians

2011 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 443-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Mercer
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Scholarly Communications

Academic librarians are increasingly expected to advocate for scholarly communications reforms such as open access to scholarly publications, yet librarians do not always practice what they preach. Previous research examined librarian attitudes toward open access, whereas this article presents results of a study of open access publishing and self-archiving behaviors of academic librarians. Following an analysis of open access to library and information science literature in 2008, several strategies to encourage academic librarians to continue to embrace open access behaviors are discussed.

A Bibliographic Analysis of Scholarly Publication in the Emerging Field of Digital Humanities in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
pp. 140-157
Author(s):  
Kuang-hua Chen ◽  
Muh-Chyun Tang
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Bibliographic Analysis ◽  
Scholarly Publications

This chapter focuses on the development of digital humanities (DH) in Taiwan. A bibliographic methodology was adopted where the scholarly publications in DH were collected and their bibliographic information retrieved and analyzed. Both co-authorship and article similarity networks were generated so social network analysis can be used to characterize the development of the field. The preliminary results show that in the earlier stage of DH in Taiwan more emphasis has been put on the construction and modeling of the cultural heritage databases; the later period has witnessed a wide variety of efforts to apply computational means within different branches in humanities, most noticeably history, Buddhists, and literary studies. The Computer Science, Library and Information Science, Geography, and History are the major driving forces for DH in Taiwan. The strong presence of Buddhists study is unique because of the strong influence of Buddhism on the Taiwanese.

scholarly journals Author-level metrics: Its impact on scholarly output evaluation among various publication metrics

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Jay N Shah
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Research Publication ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
Scholarly Output ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Measurement And Analysis

Publication metrics indicate the visibility and reach of a research publication. The metrics can be at article-level, author-level, and journal-level to measure the scholarly output and its impact. Bibliometrics is the use of statistical methods to analyze various publications mostly used in the field of library and information science; whereas, scientometrics is the sub-field concerned with the science of metrics for the measurement and analysis of scholarly publications. Readers are not always well informed about the various publication metrics, and use them without knowing how to interpret them, their strength and limitations.

Correction and retraction practices in library and information science journals

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Isola Ajiferuke ◽  
Janet O. Adekannbi
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Methodological Errors ◽  
Quality Control Mechanism ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Web

Retraction of scholarly publications ensures that unqualified knowledge is purged from the scientific community. However, there appears to be little understanding about how this is practiced among library and information science (LIS) journals. Hence, this study investigated the correction and retraction practices of LIS journals. Journals included in the Web of Science’s information science and library science subject category were selected for the study and the characteristics of the articles corrected or retracted in those journals between 1996 and 2016 were examined. Findings show that there were 517 corrections and five retractions in LIS journals during the period. Most of the corrections made to articles in LIS journals were minor while the reasons for article retraction included plagiarism, duplication, irreproducible results and methodological errors. Our findings also reveal that on average it took about 587 days for an article to be retracted while some of the retracted articles continued to be cited after retraction. The study concluded that the average number of errors per correction was lower than what had been observed in medical journals while some of the retracted articles continued to receive positive post-retraction citations. It also recommended the inclusion of a check on the validity of literature cited by authors at the review stage as part of the quality control mechanism by publishers of LIS journals.

scholarly journals Use and Perception of Sci-Hub by Library and Information Science (LIS) Professionals: From an Indian Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Vasantha Raju
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian Perspective

Sci-Hub a pirated website for scholarly articles have been heavily used in India and other parts of the world. Alexandra Elbakyan, a computer geek and a native of Kazakhstan has created this Sci-hub for providing free access to scholarly publications in 2011. India being one of the top countries in downloading research papers from this website, there was not much literature available on this site to understand its use and popularity. In this study, a survey has been conducted to understand the use and perception of Sci-hub from Indian librarians’ perspective. Lack of institutional access to scholarly articles, journals escalating cost, and easy & free access to paywalled content were the primary reasons for using this site, the study found. Another interesting result was that 30% of the survey respondents opined that it was morally and legally wrong to download articles from Sci-Hub.

EDITORIAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 01
Author(s):  
Martha Suzana Cabral Nunes ◽  
Telma de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
International Forum

É com grande satisfação que apresentamos aos nossos leitores mais um número da CONCI – Convergências em Ciência da Informação. Neste novo fascículo trazemos os trabalhos apresentados no 2º Encontro Regional Norte-Nordeste de Educação em Ciência da Informação – 2º ERECIN N-NE, evento da Associação Brasileira de Educação em Ciência da Informação (ABECIN) que teve como tema “O desafio da inclusão na práxis pedagógica: saberes e fazeres em Ciência da Informação”. O 2º ERECIN N-NE ocorreu de 11 a 15 de junho de 2018 na Universidade Federal de Sergipe e congregou ainda o I International Forum on Library and Information Science e o XI SNAC – Seminário Nacional de Avaliação Curricular.

RESEARCH COLLABORATION AMONG LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE SCHOOLS IN SOUTH AFRICA (1991–2012): AN INFORMETRICS STUDY

Mousaion ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan R. Maluleka ◽  
Omwoyo B. Onyancha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Collaborative Activities

This study sought to assess the extent of research collaboration in Library and Information Science (LIS) schools in South Africa between 1991 and 2012. Informetric research techniques were used to obtain relevant data for the study. The data was extracted from two EBSCO-hosted databases, namely, Library and Information Science Source (LISS) and Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA). The search was limited to scholarly peer reviewed articles published between 1991 and 2012. The data was analysed using Microsoft Excel ©2010 and UCINET for Windows ©2002 software packages. The findings revealed that research collaboration in LIS schools in South Africa has increased over the past two decades and mainly occurred between colleagues from the same department and institution; there were also collaborative activities at other levels, such as inter-institutional and inter-country, although to a limited extent; differences were noticeable when ranking authors according to different computations of their collaborative contributions; and educator-practitioner collaboration was rare. Several conclusions and recommendations based on the findings are offered in the article.

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