MOOCs: The Challenges for Academic Librarians
« Over the next few years, librarians at many Australian universities will participate in the creation of local Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This articl...
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Open Access in UCL: a new paradigm for London’s Global University in research support
« Open Access provides an opportunity for researchers to disseminate their research globally, but it comes with challenges. This article looks at the various wa...
Student Reading Practices in Print and Electronic Media
« This paper reports a diary-based qualitative study on college students’ reading habits with regard to print and electronic media. Students used a form to reco...
Don’t Fear the Reader: Librarian versus Interlibrary Loan Patron-Driven Acquisition of Print Books at an Academic Library by Relative Collecting Level and by Library of Congress Classes and Subclasses
« Recently, a great deal of literature on patron-driven acquisition (PDA) has been published that addresses the implementation and results of PDA programs at ac...
The impact factors of open access and subscription journals across fields
« We have compared the 2-year and 5-year impact factors (IFs), normalized impact factors (NIFs) and rank normalized impact factors (RNIFs) of open access (OA) a...
Scholarly communication, scholarly publishing and university libraries. Plus ca change ?
« The scholarly communication and research evaluation landscape is locked into historical paradigms which inadequately reflect the opportunities of the digital ...
The dynamic nature of conflict in Wikipedia
« The voluntary process of Wikipedia edition provides an environment where the outcome is clearly a collective product of interactions involving a large number ...