Post-Beall’s List
No doubt you have heard that Professor Jeffrey Beall’s blog, http://scholarlyoa.com, with the associated lists of suspected publishers, journals and metrics, has been removed from public view at his request. Here … Continue reading
Beyond correlations: Using epidemiology to establish library value
Source: Beyond Books: The Extended Academic Benefits of Library Use for First-Year College Students Abstract The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether there are relationships between first-year college … Continue reading
How researchers stay up-to-date
Like Moore’s Law, the growth of scientific information (as measured by journal articles published) appears to follow a stable and steep model. A few years ago, bibliometric researchers Lutz Bornmann … Continue reading
About Us | Prelinger Library
Source: About Us | Prelinger Library It is amazing what I have learned this year, and the Prelinger Library is the most pleasing. I was reviewing items for a publication … Continue reading
The Relationship Between Student Demographics and Student Engagement with Online Library Instruction Modules | Thill | Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
via The Relationship Between Student Demographics and Student Engagement with Online Library Instruction Modules | Thill | Evidence Based Library and Information Practice The authors asked students in a “research-based … Continue reading
New ways of viewing data
There has been a series of articles in Nature and The Scholarly Kitchen regarding (yet) another way of comparing the impact of journals via citations. Among the problems with the more traditional journal … Continue reading
Measures & factors of collection evaluation
As I have been developing a model of collection evaluation – that is, examining the features of specific subsets of our libraries’ collections, usually based on subjects – I have … Continue reading
Notes from the OA Symposium, 2016
As I mentioned previously (actually, about 30 minutes ago in real time), it’s been a busy week in Denton. The University of North Texas hosted two separate meetings on overlapping … Continue reading
Notes from the Library Publishing Forum
It’s been a busy week at UNT – host of two meetings: The Library Publishing Forum and the 7th annual Open Access Symposium. The dates, and themes, are overlapping – … Continue reading
