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Elizabeth A. Brown; Kathleen H. Flynn; Amanda McCormick; Clara Y. Tran – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
Preprint articles are available on servers, such as arXiv and ChemRxiv, at no-cost to benefit the movement toward open access of research. However, the use of preprint research articles as a reference source in academia is not heavily documented. To examine if researchers are utilizing preprint articles, this paper examines citation trends in the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Doctoral Programs, State Universities
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Gunapala, Nirmala – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2014
Academic libraries seek to play a central role in supporting the research enterprise on their campuses. Postdoctoral scholars ("postdocs") make substantial contributions to academic research and are an important group toward which services can be marketed. They are also difficult to find on many campuses, with some studies referring to…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Postdoctoral Education, Researchers, Scientific Research
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Prescod, Janette; Leach, Sandra; Mack, Thura – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2011
Research librarians should be literate in locating government resources at both federal and state levels. Although assistance with policy research may not be as frequently requested as other subjects, librarians need to be knowledgeable in this subject area. Policy resources produced by federal and state legislative and executive agencies can be…
Descriptors: Fuels, Internet, Public Policy, Librarians