Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature; 92

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-91
Author(s):  
Mike McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regular Review

Purpose This paper aims to review the current Library and Information Science (LIS) literature for document supply, resource sharing and other issues such as open access that have an impact on the service. Design/methodology/approach The approach is based on the scanning of about 150 journals, reports, websites and blogs. Findings Open access continues to grow and, hence, the impact of document supply. There is a particularly useful progress report on open access in the UK which is widely relevant. Originality/value This paper is the only regular review of LIS literature in this subject area.

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature; 94

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-185
Author(s):  
Mike McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regular Review

Purpose This paper aims to review the current library and information science (LIS) literature for document supply, resource sharing and other issues such as open access (OA) that have an impact on the service. Design/methodology/approach The approach is based on the scanning of about 150 journals, reports, websites and blogs. Findings OA continues to grow and, hence, the impact of document supply. Improvements in the Interlending and Document Supply service are satisfying. Originality/value This paper is the only regular review of LIS literature in this subject area.

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature; 93

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Content Type

Purpose This paper aims to review the current library and information science (LIS) literature for document supply, resource sharing and other issues such as open access (OA) that have an impact on the service. Design/methodology/approach The approach is based on the scanning of about 150 journals, reports, websites and blogs. Findings Of the 13 articles and reports reviewed, 12 are freely available, continuing the trend of increasing OA. As always, these days, much is happening on the OA front. Big Deals, demand-driven acquisition and discovery tools are reviewed. Originality/value The only regular literature review that focuses on interlending, document supply and related issues.

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature; 91

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Mike McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scholarly Communications

Purpose – This paper aims to review the current library and information science (LIS) literature for document supply, resource sharing and other issues such as open access (OA) that have an impact on the service. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is based on the scanning of about 150 journals, reports, Web sites and blogs. Findings – Nearly all material reviewed is freely available, continuing the trend of increasing OA. As always, these days, much is happening on the OA front. Big deals and Scholarly Communications are reviewed along with ebooks, users and of course ILL. Originality value – The only regular literature review that focuses on interlending, document supply and related issues.

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature: No 88

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
Mike McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
To Receive

Purpose – This paper aims to review the current LIS literature for document supply, resource sharing and other issues such as open access (OA) that have an impact upon the service. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is based on the scanning of about 150 journals, reports, websites and blogs. Findings – Lorcan Dempsey from OCLC looks into the future. Patron-driven acquisition and pay per view continue to receive much attention. There is considerable debate on the development of OA as the pace increases; of particular interest is Schöpfel on the impact of OA on document supply. Originality/value – This is the only regular literature review that focuses on interlending and document supply and related issues.

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature: 85

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Mike McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Related Material ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature concerning interlending and document supply. Design/methodology/approach – A review based on the reading of over 150 journals and related material including reports, conferences and blogs. Findings – This review has concerned itself primarily with the recent developments in open access and the impact that these will have on document supply. However some articles of importance in document supply as such have been noted. Originality/value – This paper represents a useful resource for librarians and others concerned with interlending and document supply as well as such related matters as resource sharing and open access.

Visibility and growth of LIS research publications: a Scopus based analysis of select open access journals during 2001 to 2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Nilaranjan Barik ◽  
Puspanjali Jena
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Search Term ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Underdeveloped Countries ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Scopus Database

Purpose This study aims to establish an idea on visibility and growth of research publications of select Library and Information Science (LIS) open access journals indexed in Scopus database during the period 2001-2015. Design/methodology/approach The study covers its scope to the research publications published during the period 2001-2015. All retrieved data were analyzed using bibliometric methods. The data of the select journals were searched in Scopus database using the name of the journal as search term in source of the database. Findings The results of the study reveal that visibility of LIS research articles in country based, university/ institution based, types of document based, authors based and citation based is significant. Authors from 83 countries and 990 universities/ institutions across the world have published their research in such LIS open access journals. The American and European countries are the leaders among all contributing countries and “Article” is the most popular types of documents with 61.37 per cent publications. The citation impact of publications shows an average 8.08 citations per publication. Originality/value The study raises concern on the global visibility of LIS research publications. Authors from underdeveloped countries do not prefer to publish their publications in open channel. Also government and other research bodies of these countries do not give proper weightage to the publications in open access journals. So, the study intends to assess the visibility of LIS research publications and their growth pattern.

What is the impact of library and information science on knowledge management research?

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Anwarul Islam ◽  
Naresh Kumar Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Authorship Pattern ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Codified Knowledge ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Access To Knowledge ◽  
Low Coverage ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine the place of library and information Science (LIS) research within leading knowledge management (KM) journals and conferences. Design/methodology/approach Authors examined articles published from 2000-2018 in top-20 KM publications identified by Google Scholar to look for relationship with LIS. Authors analyzed the identified LIS-related articles to determine the publication trends based on LIS terms used, populations, authorship pattern, country, information setting type and top-cited articles. Findings Authors found that the coverage of LIS-related articles within leading KM publications was very low. From the more than 10,000 KM research articles, less than 1 per cent were LIS-related. Research limitations/implications This study would help LIS researchers measure the space they have created for their field within leading KM research. By showing the relatively low coverage of LIS within KM research, the study demonstrates that LIS researchers/practitioners need to do more for LIS to be recognized as an important area within KM. KM publications can also enable greater synergies with LIS for mutual benefit. Originality/value LIS researchers have increasingly called for KM implementation within libraries. The KM field has a long history in library practice in the context of managing and organizing codified knowledge. Both KM and LIS share the common goals of providing access to knowledge for sharing, transfer and use. However, hardly any studies have looked at the amount of synergy or overlap between these two different but related areas, and whether LIS matters to KM, even though LIS practitioners have been highlighting that KM matters to LIS.

scholarly journals Acting hot or not? Testing the citing to show-off hypothesis

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeppe Nicolaisen ◽  
Tove Faber Frandsen
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Reference Lists ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Engineering Economics ◽  
Reference Selection ◽  
Linear Regressions ◽  
Selection Of

PurposeCitation analysis as a method for studying scientific communication is frequently criticized for being based on biased citation practices. Questionable motives for the reference selection have been suggested including the claim that authors tend to cite hot papers in order to show-off. In this study, the authors investigate the claim that authors tend to cite the recent literature in order to show-off.Design/methodology/approachFollowing Moed and Garfield (2004), the authors investigate the claim by analyzing the proportion of recent references as a function of the length of the reference lists of citing papers. The authors analyze reference lists of citing papers in the fields of biomedical engineering, economics, medicine, psychology and library and information science between 2010 and 2019. From each of these fields, a number of journals are included in the analysis to represent the field. In total, 42 journals are included in the analyses comprising a selection of almost 65,000 journal articles. The proportion of recent references is calculated using two citation windows. The proportion of recent references as a function of the length of the reference lists is calculated through simple linear regressions to predict the share of recent references based on the number of references.FindingsThe results of the linear regressions indicate that in most cases, there are a statistically significant relationship between the share of recent references and the number of references. This study’s results show that when authors display selective referencing behavior, references to the recent literature tend to be only marginally increased, and some results even display the opposite tendency (marginally overciting the older literature).Originality/valueThis study of the claim that authors tend to cite the recent literature in order to show-off does not confirm the hypothesis.

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature: 86

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
Mike McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Related Material ◽  
The Usa

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature concerning interlending and document supply. Design/methodology/approach – The study included the review of over 130 journals and related material. Findings – The race to build and deliver a system for dealing with the vast increase in OA-deposited manuscripts in the USA continues. Public access to publishers’ e-content is being made available in UK public libraries as part of the Finch report agreement. More developments in Patron-Driven Acquisition are described and much else. Originality/value – Represents a useful resource for librarians and others concerned with interlending and document supply and such related matters as resource sharing and open access.

An index-based ranking of conferences in a distinctive manner

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farooq ◽  
Hikmat Ullah Khan ◽  
Tassawar Iqbal ◽  
Saqib Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Data Set ◽  
H Index ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Bibliometric Measures ◽  
Better Than

Purpose Bibliometrics is one of the research fields in library and information science that deals with the analysis of academic entities. In this regard, to gauge the productivity and popularity of authors, publication counts and citation counts are common bibliometric measures. Similarly, the significance of a journal is measured using another bibliometric measure, impact factor. However, scarce attention has been paid to find the impact and productivity of conferences using these bibliometric measures. Moreover, the application of the existing techniques rarely finds the impact of conferences in a distinctive manner. The purpose of this paper is to propose and compare the DS-index with existing bibliometric indices, such as h-index, g-index and R-index, to study and rank conferences distinctively based on their significance. Design/methodology/approach The DS-index is applied to the self-developed large DBLP data set having publication data over 50 years covering more than 10,000 conferences. Findings The empirical results of the proposed index are compared with the existing indices using the standard performance evaluation measures. The results confirm that the DS-index performs better than other indices in ranking the conferences in a distinctive manner. Originality/value Scarce attention is paid to rank conferences in distinctive manner using bibliometric measures. In addition, exploiting the DS-index to assign unique ranks to the different conferences makes this research work novel.

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