Instagram and the science museum: a missed opportunity for public engagement
Authors : Paige Brown Jarreau, Nicole Smith Dahmen, Ember Jones Science museums are missing an opportunity to promote informal education, scientific literacy, p...
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Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations
Authors : Erin C. McKiernan, Lesley A. Schimanski, Carol Muñoz Nieves, Lisa Matthias, Meredith T. Niles, Juan Pablo Alperin The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) was...
Evolving and Enduring Patterns Surrounding Student Usage and Perceptions of Academic Library Reference Services
Authors : Jodi Jameson, Gerald Natal, John Napp This descriptive study analyzes results from an 18-item survey which assessed students’ usage and perceptions of...
If Research Libraries and Funders Finance Open Access: Moving Beyond Subscriptions and APCs
Authors : John Willinsky, Matthew Rusk Following the examples of SCOAP3, in which libraries fund open access, and eLife, in which funding agencies have begun to...
The Two-Way Street of Open Access Journal Publishing: Flip It and Reverse It
Authors : Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn, Mikael Laakso As Open access (OA) is often perceived as the end goal of scholarly publishing, much research has focused on ...
Outcomes and Impacts of Development Interventions: Toward Conceptual Clarity
Authors : Brian Belcher, Markus Palenberg The terms “outcome” and “impact” are ubiquitous in evaluation discourse. However, there are many competing definitions...
Hype or Real Threat: The Extent of Predatory Journals in Student Bibliographies
Authors : H. Rainer Schira, Chris Hurst Predatory publishing has risen with the development of open access publishing. This study examines how many potential pr...