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Ruth Kitchin Tillman; Gala Campos Oaxaca – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Even as librarians have spent the past twenty years documenting the rich world of scholarly communication beyond the catalog, repositories and catalogs too often remain completely siloed from each other. Current practices and tools to unite the two focus entirely on matching names, an imprecise method requiring substantial time spent on review.…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Development, Naming, Library Services
Brunskill, Amelia – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
There are currently no databases dedicated to indexing the research literature for disability studies. To identify which databases have more robust indexing of the literature of this field, the author compiled a list of relevant journals and searched for them in databases either frequently recommended in libraries' disability studies research…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Databases, Research, Indexing
Ashiq, Murtaza; Adil, Hafiz Muhammad; Batool, Syeda Hina – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This bibliometric study looked at the information literacy (IL) literature published by Asian authors, focusing on publishing and citation trends, prolific authors, institutions, countries, collaboration patterns, the thematic evolution of keywords, and factor analysis of keywords, journals, and countries. From the Scopus database, the study's…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Bibliometrics, Foreign Countries, Authors
Eito-Brun, Ricardo – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
Open innovation makes an open, collaborative process of creating new or improved ideas, methods, or products, based on the exchange of information and knowledge between different agents. Several Web-based platforms have been developed to support this collaborative process. These platforms act as "innovation markets," virtual meeting…
Descriptors: Databases, Cooperation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Kohn, Karen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This study investigates how article downloads from ScienceDirect changed after Temple University Libraries downsized its all-inclusive Elsevier big deal bundle to a selective custom package. After the libraries lost current-year access to nearly half of Elsevier's active journals, the total downloads from Elsevier journals declined by 16.2 percent…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Electronic Journals, Access to Information, Users (Information)
Chad E. Buckley; Rachel E. Scott; Anne Shelley; Cassie Thayer-Styes; Julie A. Murphy – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study reports faculty experiences regarding the discovery of scholarly content, highlighting similarities and differences across a range of academic disciplines. The authors interviewed twenty-five faculty members at a public, high-research university in the Midwest to explore the intersections of discovery, browsing, and format from diverse…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Scholarship, Writing (Composition), Periodicals
Bahde, Anne – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
This paper explores possibilities for marrying data visualization to online archival finding aids, which have continually suffered from usability issues in their long history. This paper describes a project in which two different data visualization models were built to replace sections of an archival finding aid. Users were then shown the models,…
Descriptors: Visualization, Archives, Data, Usability
Wiersma, Gabrielle; Tovstiadi, Esta – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
This article presents the results of a study of academic e-books that compared the metadata and search results from major academic e-book platforms. The authors collected data and performed a series of test searches designed to produce the same result regardless of platform. Testing, however, revealed metadata-related errors and significant…
Descriptors: Metadata, Search Strategies, Electronic Publishing, Accuracy
Archambault, Susan Gardner – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018
This case study describes the development of CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), an open educational resource (OER). CORA, available at www.projectcora.org, was developed through a Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) grant. The grant proposed to use a "recipe" metaphor to envision shared information…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Instructional Materials, Assignments, Electronic Libraries
Burnette, Margaret H. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
The increasing interdisciplinarity of scientific research creates both challenges and opportunities for librarians. The liaison model may be inadequate for supporting campus research that represents multiple disciplines and geographically dispersed departments. The identification of units, researchers, and projects is a first step in planning and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Biomedicine, Medical Research, Scientific Research
Stigberg, Sara; Guittar, Michelle; Morse, Geoffrey – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
Assessment and supporting data have become of increasing interest in librarianship. In this paper, we describe the development and implementation of the Northwestern University Library Acknowledgments Database tool, which gathers and documents qualitative data, as well as its component reporting function. This collaborative project and resulting…
Descriptors: Special Libraries, Database Design, Library Development, Program Implementation
Rempel, Hannah Gascho; Buck, Stefanie; Deitering, Anne-Marie – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2013
Students today perform research in a disintermediated environment, which often allows them to struggle directly with the process of selecting research tools and choosing scholarly sources. The authors conducted a qualitative study with twenty students, using structured observations to ascertain the processes students use to select databases and…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Information Seeking, Qualitative Research
Rekdal, Ole Bjørn – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
An explosion in access to electronic databases and digital information is changing the way we view source citation. While the original purpose of referencing--showing the reader exactly where the author got his or her input--is clearly more important than ever, citation is increasingly taking on other roles, ones that have little to do with good…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Citation Indexes, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing
Hofer, Amy R.; Townsend, Lori; Brunetti, Korey – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
Librarians regularly encounter students who struggle to understand and apply information literacy concepts. A qualitative survey administered to information literacy practitioners asked about troublesome content and analyzed results using the threshold concepts pedagogical framework first described by Jan Meyer and Ray Land. A threshold concept…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Library Science
Manoff, Marlene – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
Digital media increase the visibility and presence of the past while also reshaping our sense of history. We have extraordinary access to digital versions of books, journals, film, television, music, art and popular culture from earlier eras. New theoretical formulations of database and archive provide ways to think creatively about these changes…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Figurative Language, Electronic Libraries, Databases
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