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Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

2014

Bibliometrics

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Bibliometric Services In Research Evaluation: A New Task Area Strengthening The Jurisdiction Of Academic Librarians, Sabrina Petersohn Jun 2014

Bibliometric Services In Research Evaluation: A New Task Area Strengthening The Jurisdiction Of Academic Librarians, Sabrina Petersohn

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Science policy framed by audit culture relies heavily on performance measurement. This changing research environment affects higher education institutions and their scientific libraries. As service providers for research and teaching libraries need to demonstrate their added-value in front of various stakeholders. Some Library and Information Science (LIS) scholars and practitioners thus promote evaluative bibliometric services as a new service area. The question rises whether this trend to engage in evaluative bibliometrics will consolidate into a recognized professional task area in academic librarianship. Using Abbott’s theoretical framework the paper asks whether academic librarians claim a professional jurisdiction on bibliometric expertise in …


The Effect Of Open Access On Citation Rates Of Self-Archived Articles At Chalmers, Lars Kullman Jun 2014

The Effect Of Open Access On Citation Rates Of Self-Archived Articles At Chalmers, Lars Kullman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Open Access (OA) proponents argue that OA increases the visibility and accessibility of research articles, and therefore increases the citation rate of these works. During the last decade numerous studies have been made on the possible citation advantage of OA on scholarly publications. At Chalmers University of Technology (Göteborg, Sweden) an OA policy was adopted in 2010, mandating all of its publications to be self-archived in the university repository Chalmers Publication Library (CPL). One of the arguments of the then vice chancellor was that OA would increase citations. In this study, a possible OA citation advantage of articles self-archived in …