Archives des mots-clés : academic libraries

L’implication des bibliothèques universitaires francophones dans l’évaluation de…

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L’implication des bibliothèques universitaires francophones dans l’évaluation de la recherche au travers du traitement des publications scientifiques: Belgique – France – Suisse – Canada :

“Depuis de nombreuses années la révolution numérique touche directement les professionnels de l’information et de la documentation. Plus récemment de nouvelles pressions pèsent sur les bibliothèques. Les contingences économiques, institutionnelles et scientifiques poussent le secteur à se remettre en question jusque dans ses fondements. A travers une enquête adressée au personnel des bibliothèques universitaires francophones de Belgique, France, Suisse et Canada, ce mémoire tente d’évaluer dans quelle mesure le personnel des BU perçoit les mutations en cours dans son environnement professionnel en général, et en particulier concernant l’évaluation de la recherche et le traitement des publications scientifiques. Les résultats font apparaître des disparités nationales et déterminent des observations globales. Généralement le personnel est favorable aux changements en matière de traitement des publications scientifiques et à l’évaluation de la recherche. Mais globalement, il n’est ni impliqué, ni préparé à une plus grande intégration de ses activités dans le contexte de la recherche au sein de son institution.”

URL : http://memsic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/mem_00741049

Supporting Digital Scholarship Bibliographic Control Library Cooperatives and…

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Supporting Digital Scholarship: Bibliographic Control, Library Cooperatives and Open Access Repositories :

“Research libraries have entered an era of discontinuous change—a time when the cumulated assets of the past do not guarantee future success. Bibliographic control, cooperative cataloguing systems and library catalogues have been key assets in the research library service framework for supporting scholarship. This chapter examines these assets in the context of changing library collections, new metadata sources and methods, open access repositories, digital scholarship and the purposes of research libraries. Advocating a fundamental rethinking of the research library service framework, the chapter concludes with a call for research libraries to collectively consider new approaches that could strengthen their roles as essential contributors to emergent, network-level scholarly research infrastructures.”

URL : http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/16084/

Exploring Publishing Patterns at a Large Research University…

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Exploring Publishing Patterns at a Large Research University: Implications for Library Practice :

“Objective : The research project sought to explore the value of data on publication patterns for decision-making regarding scholarly communications and collection development programs at a research-intensive post-secondary institution, the University of Utah in the United States.

Methods : Publication data for prolific University of Utah authors were gathered from Scopus for the year 2009. The availability to University of Utah faculty, staff, and students of the journals in which University of Utah authors published was determined using the University of Utah Libraries’ catalogue; usage was estimated based on publisher-provided download statistics and requests through interlibrary loan; and costs were calculated from invoices, a periodicals directory, and publisher websites and communications. Indicators of value included the cost-per-use of journals to which the University of Utah Libraries subscribed, a comparison of interlibrary loan costs to subscription costs for journals to which the University of Utah Libraries did not subscribe, the relationship between publishing venue and usage, and the relationship between publishing venue and cost-per-use.

Results : There were 22 University of Utah authors who published 10 or more articles in 2009. Collectively, these authors produced 275 articles in 162 journals. The University of Utah provided access through library subscriptions to 83% of the journals for which access, usage, and cost data were available, with widely varying usage and at widely varying costs. Cost-per-use and a comparison of interlibrary loan to subscription costs provided evidence of the effectiveness of collection development practices. However, at the individual journal title level, there was little overlap between the various indicators of journal value, with the highest ranked, or most valuable, journals differing depending on the indicator considered. Few of the articles studied appeared in open access journals, suggesting a possible focus area for the scholarly communications program.

Conclusions : Knowledge of publication patterns provides an additional source of data to support collection development decisions and scholarly communications programming. As the estimated value of a journal is dependent on the factor being studied, gathering knowledge on a number of factors and from a variety of sources can lead to more informed decision-making. Efforts should be made to expand data considered in areas of scholarly communications and collection development beyond usage to incorporate publishing activities of institutionally affiliated authors.”

URL : http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/17122

Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Report

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This report briefly presents the findings and recommendations of the “Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success” project which investigated the extent to which publishing has now become a core activity of North American academic libraries and suggested ways in which further capacity could be built.

The research described (consisting of a survey, some case studies, three workshops, and a set of further reading recommendations) was mainly conducted between October 1, 2010, and September 30, 2011.

It was supported by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Libraries Studies, made to Purdue University Libraries in collaboration with the Libraries of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah.

URL : http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/24/

How Linking Changes the Role of Library…

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“How Linking Changes the Role of Library Data: Examples from the Wider World” :

“Discussion in the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group (2010-2011) tended to focus on the benefits of linked-data technology to libraries. This talk explores how library data – datasets, element sets, and value vocabularies – when linked, provide new forms of support to scholarly and cultural communities in the wider world. Well-maintained value vocabularies, their concepts identified by URI and backed by institutional persistence policies, can function as magnets, forming hubs of incoming links from thousands of providers. The global agricultural research community maintains a key thesaurus, AGROVOC, through an effort distributed across multiple language areas. Its linked data strategy aims at solutions that will work in low-resource and low-bandwidth conditions and at tools that can use natural-language processing to assign appropriate URIs and automate the “triplification” of existing data (“wrapping the legacy”).

In the library world, the standards underpinning bibliographic description, such as ISBD, FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD, and RDA, are being translated into the language of linked data. Triplified standards provide building blocks for descriptive practice based not on fixed records, but on statements that can be differently recombined and bundled for diverse, even unanticipated, uses – aggregated “just in time” instead of being maintained “just in case”. As for other artifacts of long-term cultural importance, libraries could play a key role in preserving the underlying vocabularies, ensuring their long-term usefulness as the “footnotes” of library data.”

Use of ICT Based Electronic Resources in selected…

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Use of ICT Based Electronic Resources in selected Central Universities of India :

“The paper divulge in the increasing use of electronic resources and the widening acceptance of the same among academic library patrons. Reaffirms the necessity of making the end users aware of the e-resources based services offered by the libraries. Conducts a cursory examination of the web design of the university libraries. Finally, attempts to identify ways to maximise the use of e-resources by taking into consideration 18 central university libraries.”

URL : http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16561

UK Scholarly Reading and the Value of Library…

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UK Scholarly Reading and the Value of Library Resources: Summary Results of the Study Conducted Spring 2011 :

“The Scholarly Reading and the Value of Library Resources project measures the value and outcomes from access to scholarly publications in six universities in the UK. It seeks to answer questions such as: How do academic library collections support research and teaching activities? What is the value and outcome of scholarly reading for academic staff? How do reading patterns of articles, books, and other materials differ? It provides evidence that the library has an integral role in the university’s mission of research and teaching, not just a supporting one, with scholarly journal provision benefiting staff and students alike. It provides further evidence that a well-resourced library may have a correlation to the overall strength and success of the institution.”

URL : http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Documents/Reports/UK%20Scholarly%20Reading%20and%20the%20Value%20of%20Library%20Resources%20Final%20Report.pdf