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To Boldly Go Beyond Downloads: How Are Journal Articles Shared And Used?, Carol Tenopir, Gabriel Hughes, Christian Lisa, Suzie Allard, David Nicholas, Anthony Watkinson, Hazel Woodward, Peter Shepherd, Robert Anderson

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With more scholarly journals being distributed electronically rather than in print form, we know that researchers download many articles. What is less well known is how journal articles are used after they are initially downloaded. To what extent are they saved, uploaded, tweeted, or otherwise shared? How does this reuse increase their total use and value to research and how does it influence library usage figures? University of Tennessee Chancellor’s Professor Carol Tenopir, Professor Suzie Allard, and Adjunct Professor David Nicholas are leading a team of international researchers on a the project, “Beyond Downloads,” funded by a grant from Elsevier. …

Are Electronic Journals Good For Science?, Carol Tenopir

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Most people accept the notion that e-journals, through library subscriptions or open access, are good for science. They save readers time in tracking down articles and help them identify relevant materials from a wide range of journal titles. However, the academic world was buzzing recently over a study that challenged this notion.

Electronic Journals, Carol Tenopir

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Scholarly journals, which include substantive research articles and other materials,including letters to the editor,book reviews,and announcements of meetings, trace their origins back to 1665,with Les Journal des Scavans (trans.,“Journal of the experts”) in Paris and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London in London. These journals developed to share scientific discoveries among interested parties and to establish who was first to have made a given discovery or to have advanced a given theory.

Peer review is an important part of publication in scholarly journals. It is a system whereby scholars who are experts in the same field as the author …

The Web: Searchable, Hidden, And Deceitful., Carol Tenopir

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THE BLURRING OF LINES among special librarians and other information professionals makes the tracks that some conferences use seem artificial. After all, many librarians work as online experts, knowledge managers, and builders of electronic libraries--often all in one day. This became clear at the recent Information Today (IT) meetings in New York in May, which combined three previously separate shows: National Online, KnowledgeNets, and E-Libraries (see also InfoTech, LJ 6/15/02, p. 23). While there were plenty of redundancies, there were several useful sessions on web searching and electronic publishing.

Information Today Stands Alone, Carol Tenopir

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MORE THAN A DECADE ago I wrote about three family-owned publishers that served online information professionals (see "The Database Press," LJ 3/1/89, p. 56-57). Online Inc., Meckler-Media, and Learned Information Inc. each focused on the online community through conferences, journals, books, and other publications.

Now, just a decade later, only Information Today Inc. (the name of Learned Information Inc. since 1995) has stuck totally with the online information professional. In fact, Information Today (see www.infotoday.com) has purchased many of the information professional products from its former competitors, while Online Inc. and MecklerMedia have gone in other directions.

Are There Too Many Meetings?, Carol Tenopir

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AFTER OVER 20 YEARS, the face of online meetings is changing. As of 2001, Online World is no more, the National Online Meeting sports a new name, and ASIS (now ASIST) continues to refocus its meetings. Is the traditional online industry in trouble or were too many meetings vying for our attention and budget?

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.

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 …

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.

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.

Expert Views Of The Future, Carol Tenopir

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While no one knows for sure what the future holds for libraries or the online industry, experts have their opinions. Tenopir buttonholed 17 of them for their views of coming changes in information science and delivery.

Electronic Journal Publishing: Economics Of Production, Distribution, And Use, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir

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Managing Scientific Journals In A Digital Era, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

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Special librarians would do well to examine present trends in electronic publishing. This would guide them in the efficient management of electronically published scientific journals and the avoidance of costly mistakes in the pricing and acquisitions of such scholarly studies.

Setting The Record Straight On Journal Publishing: Myth Vs. Reality., Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

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Attempts to expose some of the myths that stand in the way of a better future for scholarly publishing. Traditional print journals and electronic publishing; Showing the myth and the reality; The myth that libraries have become irrelevant to scientists; The myth that scientists cancel personal subscriptions because they do not need the journals; The myth that storage and communication of electronic journals are free; The dispelling of other myths.

Electronic Publishing, Carol Tenopir

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Discusses electronic publishing. What it is; Its two stages; The two `choices' of publication types; ASCII; Fulltext databases; Use of CD-ROM; The choice each library must make; Electronic publications that are original publications; Whether electronic journals will ever replace print.

Full-Text Retrieval: Systems And Files, Carol Tenopir

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Much of the development in the first 30 years of library automation has been in solving the problem of identifying relevant sources. Automation of the library's card catalog provides a finding tool for the library's collections. The books, journals, films, and other materials located through the catalog still mostly reside in their original form, with no direct connection to the automated finding tool.

Most of the early development in electronic publishing was also aimed solely at identifying information sources. Secondary publishers, notably publishers of indexing/abstracting serials, were the first to provide their resources in electronic form. Throughout the 1970s and …

Cd-Rom Goes Consumer, Carol Tenopir

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CD-ROM products have already been enthusiastically received by librarians and educators, but now CD-ROM publishers are seeking to make inroads in the consumer market.

What’S Happening With Cd-Rom, Part 1, Carol Tenopir

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It is expected that there will be an increase in the number of databases on CD-ROM during 1989. Directories for finding out what is available on CD-ROM and information on the companies that produce them are discussed.