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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2000

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

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The States Of Online, Carol Tenopir Dec 2000

The States Of Online, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

STATE LIBRARY organizations generally gear their meetings to all types of librarians (although in some states there is a separate school library organization) and include a variety of topics on their programs. Judging from the number of sessions about online databases at state conferences these days, it is clear that, in the past decade, online has become a mainstream topic for all types of libraries.

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The Use And Value Of Scholarly Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King Nov 2000

The Use And Value Of Scholarly Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

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This paper summarized results of 13,591 readership survey responses of scientists and reviews of hundreds of other readership studies reported in a recent book: Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers (Tenopir & King, 2000). In particular, survey results reveal amounts and trends of reading and information-seeking patterns, such as how readers identify articles that are read and where they obtain them. The survey results also demonstrate the usefulness and value of scientific scholarly journals. Past results suggest that electronic journals and digital full-text databases will play a major role in the future of scientific scholarly journals …

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Linking To Full Text In Scholarly Journals: Here A Link, There A Link, Everywhere A Link, Jill E. Grogg, Carol Tenopir Nov 2000

Linking To Full Text In Scholarly Journals: Here A Link, There A Link, Everywhere A Link, Jill E. Grogg, Carol Tenopir

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Ovid [http://www.ovid.com] offers another example of internal linking with links between its bibliographic databases and the full text of articles available via Journals)Ovid, Ovid's aggregated fully SGML database of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals. Again, depending on license agreements with Ovid, the searcher seamlessly moves from a link on a bibliographic record to the full text, never leaving the Ovid service.

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Online Journals & Developing Nations, Carol Tenopir Nov 2000

Online Journals & Developing Nations, Carol Tenopir

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WE ALL KNOW HOW the escalating price of journal subscriptions takes a bite every year from our libraries' budgets. Still, if you are reading this in a library in the United States, the U.K., or any other developed nation, you may not realize the devastating effect the high costs of journals have on libraries in less developed nations. Barbara Kirsop, secretary of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development and director of Bioline Publications, says when she asked a librarian in a sub-Saharan African nation what journals that library would order this year, the answer was, "None."

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The Cost And Price Dilemma Of Scholarly Journals, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir Nov 2000

The Cost And Price Dilemma Of Scholarly Journals, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir

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This paper examines the overall cost of the scientific scholarly journal system and find that the relative system costs have not increased since the late 1970s. Why then have journal prices skyrocketed over this same period? We first describe typical scholarly publishing costs, because to understand journal prices one must understand the factors that affect these costs. We then describe some factors that have likely contributed to spiraling price increases and changes in journal subscription demand. Finally we discuss some alternative pricing policies that might help in the future. This paper summarizes results reported in a recent book: Towards Electronic …

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Trends For The Next Five Years, Carol Tenopir Oct 2000

Trends For The Next Five Years, Carol Tenopir

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Tenopir discusses major trends in the library marketplace in the next five years, including integration and aggregation, and linking indexing and full texts.

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Database Use Patterns In Public Libraries., Carol Tenopir, Eleanor Read Oct 2000

Database Use Patterns In Public Libraries., Carol Tenopir, Eleanor Read

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Database usage data from a random sample of ninety-eight public libraries and library systems in the United States and Canada reveal patterns of use. Library users at all sizes of public libraries tend to use research databases most frequently early in the week, at midday, and at times that correspond to the academic calendar (November in this six-month sample.) Peak usage varies with size of library, but a capacity of between one and ten simultaneous users will satisfy 99 percent of demand in every size of library. A questionnaire sent to these libraries revealed many other factors that might influence …

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Trekking Through Exhibit Halls, Carol Tenopir Sep 2000

Trekking Through Exhibit Halls, Carol Tenopir

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IT SEEMS AS IF THE exhibit halls at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the American Library Association (ALA) conferences get bigger every year, and it takes longer for me to get from one end of the hall to the other. Certainly the glitz of new systems, fancy interfaces, and new technologies is more impressive every year, and new Internet companies keep showing up.

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Moving Toward Electronic Journals, Carol Tenopir Jul 2000

Moving Toward Electronic Journals, Carol Tenopir

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PRINT STILL PREDOMINATES in journal publishing, but that role may soon fade. Too slowly or too quickly, steadily or in fits and starts (depending on your perspective and patience level), scholarly journals are moving toward reliance on digital forms. This is happening in part because librarians, scholars, and even some publishers are unhappy about the current state of print journals.

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A Name (Un)Like Any Other Name, Carol Tenopir Jun 2000

A Name (Un)Like Any Other Name, Carol Tenopir

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WHAT'S IN A NAME? Plenty, judging from the time, thought, and expense that go into picking a new name for an online company. Can you name the new company monikers for Dow Jones Interactive, Reuters Business Briefing, Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive, UMI, Bell & Howell Information and Learning, the Dialog Corporation, and WLN? Don't be discouraged if you can't. Only close observers can keep up with the continual name changes.

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The Database Marketplace 2000: Are Online Companies Dinosaurs?, Carol Tenopir, Jeff Barry May 2000

The Database Marketplace 2000: Are Online Companies Dinosaurs?, Carol Tenopir, Jeff Barry

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No player in the fee-based information industry can ignore the Internet, but many see it as an opportunity to expand services to their library customers rather than as a threat. Some companies that started in the CD-ROM business have adapted by offering web versions as well and are seeing much more growth in their web-based services. Gale Group is one that has successfully shifted its emphasis from CD-ROM to web versions. Gale's Beth Dempsey says, "The web has been a boon for Gale.

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Online Goals Before There Was Online, Carol Tenopir May 2000

Online Goals Before There Was Online, Carol Tenopir

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Suggests that digital resources and telecommunications give librarians the best chance in decades to reexamine and achieve many of their fundamental goals. Discusses the goals of providing the right information in appropriate formats, keeping the intellectual record, providing personalized information services, and serving as educators, and cites references to each in the library literature dating back to the late 1800s. (AEF)

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Patterns Of Database Use In Academic Libraries., Carol Tenopir, Eleanor Read May 2000

Patterns Of Database Use In Academic Libraries., Carol Tenopir, Eleanor Read

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Database usage data from a random sample of academic libraries in the United States and Canada reveal patterns of use in selected types of libraries. Library users tend to use commercial online databases most frequently early in the week, at midday, and at times that correspond to the academic calendar (November in this six-month sample). On average, relatively low numbers of users are simultaneously logged on to research databases at any size of library. A questionnaire sent to these same libraries identified many other factors that might influence database use, including level of instruction, availability of remote log-in, and placement …

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I Never Learned About That In Library School: Curriculum Changes In Lis., Carol Tenopir Apr 2000

I Never Learned About That In Library School: Curriculum Changes In Lis., Carol Tenopir

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Professional organizations are concerned that programs in Library and Information Science (LIS) may not be teaching up-to-date skills to prepare new information professionals for their first jobs. But good schools also need to provide the broader knowledge that will allow graduates to adapt and continue to function in a constantly changing information world. Due to these concerns, the Special Libraries Association, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Medical Library Association, American Library Association, and others are all looking into what LIS curricula includes now and ought to include in the future, to ensure that the educational programs are keeping …

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Finding Full Text For Articles, Carol Tenopir Apr 2000

Finding Full Text For Articles, Carol Tenopir

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OF ALL THE TOPICS I've written about recently, the one that gets the most requests for updates is information about full texts of journal and magazine articles. I am still getting e-mail about last year's column "Should We Cancel Print?" (LJ 9/1/99, p. 138, 142), which discusses the completeness and characteristics of various versions of online journals.

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Are You A Super Searcher?, Carol Tenopir Mar 2000

Are You A Super Searcher?, Carol Tenopir

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MILLIONS OF PEOPLE around the world consider themselves to be good online searchers, and probably hundreds of thousands of them rate themselves as experts. College librarians and professors notice that a growing number of undergraduates and graduate students feel confident in their online abilities. Everyone who works in a library knows at least the library's online catalog system and probably many other online, CD-ROM, and web search systems. If everyone is above average, as in Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, what makes an online searcher stand out?

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Getting What You Pay For?, Carol Tenopir Feb 2000

Getting What You Pay For?, Carol Tenopir

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The old adage "you get what you pay for" doesn't always apply to the World Wide Web. The number of authoritative sites grows daily.

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