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Direct linkBarnett, Philip; Lascar, Claudia – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2012
The current journal titles in earth and atmospheric sciences, that are unique to each of two databases, Web of Science and Scopus, were identified using different methods. Comparing by subject category shows that Scopus has hundreds of unique titles, and Web of Science just 16. The titles unique to each database have low SCImago Journal Rank…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Periodicals, Science Materials, Bibliographic Databases
Gilmour, Ron; Cobus-Kuo, Laura – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2011
Reference management (RM) software is widely used by researchers in the health and natural sciences. Librarians are often called upon to provide support for these products. The present study compares four prominent RMs: CiteULike, RefWorks, Mendeley, and Zotero, in terms of features offered and the accuracy of the bibliographies that they…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Computer Software, Citations (References), Bibliographies
Lascar, Claudia; Barnett, Philip – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
The purpose of this study was to reveal influential journals used by life scientists; journals not currently included in "BIOSIS Previews," but included in either "PubMed" or "Science Citation Index Expanded". These 252 journals were revealed by the Eigenfactor, an iterative ranking scheme which quantitatively measures the scientific influence of…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Biology, Scientific Research, Bibliographic Databases
Gray, Edward; Hodkinson, Sarah Z. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2008
Impact factors for journals listed under the subject categories "ecology" and "environmental sciences" in the Journal Citation Reports database were calculated using citation data from the Scopus database. The journals were then ranked by their Scopus impact factor and compared to the ranked lists of the same journals derived from Journal…
Descriptors: Ecology, Periodicals, Databases, Sciences
Losoff, Barbara – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
The advent of large-scale digital repositories, along with the need for sharing useful data world-wide, demands change to the current information structure. The merging of digital scientific data with scholarly literature has the potential to fulfill the Semantic Web design principles. This paper will identify factors leading to integration of…
Descriptors: Librarians, Electronic Publishing, Databases, Semantics
