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Web Citation Availability: A Follow-Up Study, Mary Casserly, James Bird
Web Citation Availability: A Follow-Up Study, Mary Casserly, James Bird
James E Bird
The authors report on a study to examine the persistence of Web-based content. In 2002, a sample of five hundred citations to Internet resources from articles published in library and information science journals in 1999 and 2000 were analyzed by citation characteristics and searched to determine cited content persistence, availability on the Web, and availability in the Internet Archive. Statistical analyses were conducted to identify citation characteristics associated with availability. The sample URLs were searched again between August 2005 and June 2006 to determine persistence, availability on the Web, and in the Internet Archive. As in the original study, the …
Web Citation Availability: Analysis And Implications For Scholarship, Mary Casserly, James Bird
Web Citation Availability: Analysis And Implications For Scholarship, Mary Casserly, James Bird
James E Bird
Five hundred citations to Internet resources from articles published in library and information science journals in 1999 and 2000 were profiled and searched on the Web. The majority contained partial bibliographic information and no date viewed. Most URLs pointed to content pages with “edu” or “org” domains and did not include a tilde. More than half (56.4%) were permanent, 81.4 percent were available on the Web, and searching the Internet Archive increased the availability rate to 89.2 percent. Content, domain, and directory depth were associated with availability. Few of the journals provided instruction on citing digital resources. Eight suggestions for …
Do Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers Result From Meeting Abstracts Of The Biennial Conference On The Biology Of Marine Mammals?, James Bird, Mary Bird
Do Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers Result From Meeting Abstracts Of The Biennial Conference On The Biology Of Marine Mammals?, James Bird, Mary Bird
James E Bird
Peer-reviewed publication is at the core of scientific communication. However, with the exception of biomedicine, there has been little analysis of the rate of peer-reviewed publication resulting from conference abstracts. This study examined a random sample of abstracts from the 1989 and 1991 Biennial Conferences on the Biology of Marine Mammals to determine how many were published as peer-reviewed papers. Publication rates were 51.4% (±4.7%) and 51.2% (±4.6%), respectively. This low abstract-to-publication rate, coupled with editorial policies prohibiting citation of conference abstracts in some journals, limits access to recent research, and thus affects the vibrance of the discipline.
Authorship Patterns In Marine Mammal Science, 1985-1993, James Bird
Authorship Patterns In Marine Mammal Science, 1985-1993, James Bird
James E Bird
Authorship studies in such disciplines as physics and economics show that with the passage of time there has been an increase in the number of authors per paper, indicating a trend toward more collaboration. In this study, a search was run on the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts database to identify marine mammal science papers published from 1985 to 1993. A total of 1308 papers published in scientific journals was examined. There were weak but statistically significant trends in the increase in the number of authors per paper as well as in the number of multi-authored papers written by authors …
A Selected Annotated Bibliography Of Agricultural Information, James Bird, Jessie Smith
A Selected Annotated Bibliography Of Agricultural Information, James Bird, Jessie Smith
James E Bird
...In the selective annotated bibliography that follows. Emphasis has been placed on resources which discuss current and future trends in agricultural information and libraries, user needs, issues facing devel- oping countries, technology advances, and special problems. These documents provide a framework for understanding the current and future status of agricultural information and agricultural libraries. ...