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D-Lib
May 2003
Tenopir et al. |
Patterns of Journal Use by Scientists through Three Evolutionary Phases This article provides some evidence of how scientists' information seeking and reading patterns are affected by using journals in three system phases.   |
D-Lib
October 2003
King et al. |
Patterns of Journal Use by Faculty at Three Diverse Universities University libraries are rapidly moving toward electronic journal collections. Readership surveys at three universities with different levels of electronic journal implementation demonstrate how transition to electronic journal collections affects use patterns of faculty and staff. |
D-Lib
December 2002
King & Montgomery |
After Migration to an Electronic Journal Collection: Impact on Faculty and Doctoral Students The results of a comprehensive analysis of a readership survey covering the number of journal readings, outcomes from reading and information-seeking, and reading patterns following implementation of a nearly exclusive electronic journal collection at Drexel University. |
D-Lib
October 2006
King et al. |
Measuring Total Reading of Journal Articles Surveys involving amount of reading from Table-of-Contents complement other estimates of amount of reading of articles and journals. With recent open access concerns with cost of publishing articles, this method provides a more accurate means of estimating the article (and journal) cost per reading. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010
Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
D-Lib
January 2004
Jonas Holmstrom |
The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles The measure for calculating cost per reading (CPR) of journal articles is reviewed, and a way to adapt this measure to articles in open access journals is proposed. |
D-Lib
April 2004
Jonas Holmstrom |
The Return on Investment of Electronic Journals - It Is a Matter of Time Author argues using download statistics to measure cost-effectiveness may be misleading, and offers recommendations for standards of measurement. |
D-Lib
June 2003
Bonthron et al. |
Trends in Use of Electronic Journals in Higher Education in the UK - Views of Academic Staff and Students This article examines disciplinary differences in the use of electronic journals by academic staff and students and considers whether library services need to differentiate between staff and students when planning support services for electronic journals. |
D-Lib
October 2002
Montgomery & King |
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections The results suggest that, when all costs are considered, electronic journals are more cost effective on a per use basis. |
D-Lib
December 2002
Rudner et al. |
Who Is Reading On-line Education Journals? Why? And What Are They Reading? One thoughtful examination of the literature estimates that a typical article published in a scientific journal in the U.S. is read about 900 times. In contrast, some of the electronic journals in education appear to be having a far greater impact. |
D-Lib
October 2000
Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
D-Lib
Taemin Kim Park |
D-Lib Magazine: Its First 13 Years By the use of bibliometric techniques, authorship characteristics of D-Lib Magazine are studied. |
D-Lib
December 2008
Bonita Wilson |
Evolution in the Area of Digital Scholarly Communication Journal editors or librarians from 1958 would be amazed at the technology we have in 2008, but they would have no trouble recognizing the fundamentals of today's scholarly publications. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Donald W. King |
Should Commercial Publishers Be Included in the Model for Open Access through Author Payment? If open access by author payment is in fact an optimum model, there must be some way to demonstrate it other than by the trickle approach now taking place. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Harnad & Brody |
Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2005
Moss & Solomon |
Teaching the Fourth `R' of Science Education: Research A partnership program between the Bronx High School of Science and Elsevier introduces students to the world of scientific research through ScienceDirect. |
Search Engine Watch
February 14, 2006
Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
Searcher
October 2000
Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo |
Preprint Servers: Pushing the Envelope of Electronic Scholarly Publishing Consulting with peers has traditionally dominated the way researchers gather information. Those peers often identify proposed publications. Electronic preprints allow access to information without the time lag inherent in traditional publishing... |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Free Full Text: FindArticles and MagPortal While much of the best of the full-text world on the Web is available only via subscription or other fee-based access, there are also free, searchable full-text collections of articles. Two of the most interesting of these are MagPortal and FindArticles. |
D-Lib
November 2006 |
The Core: Digital Library Education in Library and Information Science Programs What readings are assigned in courses on digital libraries in Library and Information Science programs? Is there a core group of readings? What is the distribution of readings among the various topics in these courses? |
D-Lib
April 2007
Davis & Connolly |
Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace Cornell's DSpace is largely underpopulated and underused by its faculty. |
Information Today
September 17, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
ingenta Institute to Report Research Study Results The institute's 2000-2001 research project explored the relationship between journal subscriptions and document delivery, as well as the impact of online delivery on article distribution... |
Information Today
May 30, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
First UK Survey of Academics 2012 Issued by Ithaka S+R The survey examines the attitudes and behaviors of researchers at academic institutions across the U.K. with regard to digital technologies, the internet, and open access. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2012
David Shotton |
The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles -- a Framework for Article Evaluation I propose five factors -- peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata -- as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles. |
D-Lib
June 2004 |
The Use of Consortially Purchased Electronic Journals by the CBUC (2000-2003) The data obtained at the Consortium of University Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) make a highly interesting empirical contribution to a major international discussion on the models for acquisition of scientific journals in the university libraries of the future. |
Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Samson C. Soong |
Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility This article describes a study to measure the actual effect of open accessibility on citation rates. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
ONLINE
September 2001
Peter Jacso |
Peter's Picks & Pans The picks include two publishers' sites that are especially useful for library and information science and technology topics: Emerald and Academic Press. The pan goes to sciBASE that opened its door well before it could offer novel and competitive information services... |
D-Lib
February 2009 |
To the Editor (January/February 2009) Tenopir & King's confirmation of the finding that as more articles become accessible, more articles are indeed accessed (and read), but fewer articles are cited (and those are cited more) is best explained by the increased selectivity made possible by that increased accessibility |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Guy Gugliotta |
The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules The h-index is the number n of a researcher's papers that have been cited by other papers at least n times. High numbers = important science = important scientist. |
Searcher
December 2000
Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014
Heidi Zuniga |
The Role of a Digital Repository in a Library-Managed Open Access Fund Program This article discusses the development of an open access author fund at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library and the subsequent partnership with the library's digital repository, in which the articles supported by the fund were added to the repository. |
Information Today
July 2, 2001
Robin Peek |
Current Science Group, Elsevier Science Offer New Science Services In an effort to demonstrate that publishers can be just as nimble and creative as new efforts like PubMed, two of them have just announced new services for scientists... |
D-Lib
October 2005
Yvonne Hultman Ozek |
Lund Virtual Medical Journal Makes Self-Archiving Attractive and Easy for Authors The importance of communication and collaboration with units outside the library to make self-archiving attractive to authors. |
Chemistry World
June 22, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
ACS compress print journals to favor online While changing habits among students and researchers have meant that online resources are increasingly popular, old-fashioned print journals are likely to linger for at least some time yet |
D-Lib
September 2005
Bauer & Bakkalbasi |
An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment A study comparing the citation counts from three resources for research articles taken from the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. |
Information Today
May 7, 2012
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest for Everyone: The Udini Service Officially Launches ProQuest has officially launched Udini, an end-user service that is open to all web users. |
Information Today
January 23, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Elsevier's Scopus Introduces Citation Tracker: Challenge to Thomson ISI's Web of Science? Elsevier's Scopus Citation Tracker service expands the functionality of its "cited by" feature on its search results page. |
Information Today
April 10, 2006
Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. |
Searcher
March 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
D-Lib
October 2002 |
Open Citation Linking: The Way Forward Free, unrestricted access to research papers is increasing the speed of scientific communication. This article describes the Open Citation project's efforts to build tools to aid in archiving papers. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2009
Stephanie Bianchi |
Peerless Pathways to Find Peer Reviewers A workshop was offered to all new program officers at NSF on how to use standard library resources to quickly and easily find and evaluate possible peer reviewers, even if the subject area was unfamiliar. |
D-Lib
October 2003
Marcum & George |
Who Uses What? Report on a national survey of information users in colleges and universities |
Information Today
March 5, 2009 |
New Reports Journals From Faculty of 1000 The expert-driven article evaluation services Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine are each launching a journal to complement their service. |
Information Today
June 6, 2013 |
DeepDyve, Inc. Offers Free, 5-Minute Preview of Journal Articles DeepDyve, Inc., an online rental service for scholarly and professional research articles, announced a new preview tool on June 5. The full text of any article on the site is now available free to users for 5 minutes each day. |
Information Today
April 29, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Survey on U.S. Faculty Use of Scholarly Resources -- and the Academic Library The results provide "libraries, learned societies, and academic publishers with insight into the evolving attitudes and practices of faculty members in the context of substantial environmental change for higher education." |
Information Today
June 2004
Mick O'Leary |
Learner's Library Dumbs Down This fee-based research service for students is a dumbed-down, error-ridden product that offers both haphazard content and inferior searching. |
