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From The Gas: Congratulations, Publications, Presentations, Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D., Stacy L. Creel, Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

Updates from the students and alumni and faculty publications and presentations.

Chemistry And Biochemistry Affiliated Publications: Snapshot Of The Research Publications 2019-2022, Jeremy Smith, Lutishoor Salisbury

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This report highlights the chemistry and biochemistry faculty publications for the period 2019-2022.

It include tables identifying the types of publications, the JCR ranking of the journals in which they published and a listing of their publications, etc.

Improving Pubmed For The Novice At The Expense Of The Expert: Surveying Librarians 3 Years Post-New Pubmed, Tim Kenny Mls, Heather Kemp Mlis

Maine Medical Center

Background: In 2019 PubMed, the publically accessible search interface for the MEDLINE database underwent a user interface update and overhaul. MEDLINE is the primary component of PubMed, a literature database developed and maintained by the NLM National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)” (National Library of Medicine, 2022).

Methods: Using a brief web-based survey, comprised of both closed-ended and open-ended questions, health science library professionals provided feedback on the new PubMed.

From The Gas: Congratulations, Publications, Presentations, Stacy Creel, Ph.D. Usm Slis, Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D. Usm Slis

SLIS Connecting

Updates on USM SLIS alumni, faculty, and students.

Law Library Blog (April 2022): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

No abstract provided.

From The Gas: Congratulations, Publications, Presentations, Stacy Creel, Ph.D., Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

Words from the SLIS graduate assistants about what makes being a SLIS GA "a good thing" beyond the job duties: outreach, office work, recruitment, teaching, research, data collection, transcribing, course preparation, and social media creation. News, updates, and congratulations from students, alumni, and faculty.

A Scientometric Analysis Of Scientific Publications Related To Covid-19 In Library And Information Science Research, Zhahirah Indrawati Zainuddin, Safirotu Khoir

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: As part of social sciences, Library and Information Science (LIS) has experienced development in COVID-19 discussions through the academic lens. The increasing number of research related to COVID-19 across subject areas is a response by researchers to overcome this crisis, including research in the LIS field. This research aims to describe the characteristics and trends of the keywords. It also aims to describe the most productive journals, institutions, and countries related to COVID-19 in LIS research.

Methods: We analysed 250 documents related to “COVID-19” in LIS research area indexed in Scopus during 2020-2022. VOSviewer was used to analyse the …

A Scientometric Overview Of Authorship Pattern And Collaborative Measures In Global Leather Research, Shanthi B, Thanuskodi S

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A scientometric study to analyse the research output in the area of leather has been selected as the problem to be investigated. The research output is a good indicator which reflects the trend and structure in any discipline. The analysis of leather research over a period of time indicates the trends in the cognitive structure of the chosen field. The overall Degree of Collaboration for the study period was 19.64. The Degree of Collaboration ranged from 0.71 and 0.91 during the study period (1994 to 2018). The Degree of Collaboration was on the increasing trend throughout the study period. From …

Management Of Hypothyroidism Research Publications: A Bibliometric Analysis, Abhilashbabu Babu R, Umadevi L. N Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Endocrine and metabolic diseases are among the the most common contemporary human afflictions particularly in the United States and other developing countries like India and Srilanka. Hypothyroidism is due to the under activity of thyroid gland and results from its failure to secrete sufficient hormones into the blood stream. Hypothyroidism is a condition that reflects decreased concentrations of thyroid hormones due to any cause. This paper attempts to analyse management of hypothyroidism as reflected in publication output covered by Web of Science online database during 2018-2020 USA advanced with 156 (23.5 %) Articles and it occupies the first place in …

Visualizing Impact With Publication Data, Yimin Geng Msis, Ms, Tracy Stafford, Laurissa Gann Msls, Ahip

2021 Education Week Posters

Research Medical Library

Division of Education and Training

Mapping Of Research Publications On Ethnomusicology Through The Lens Of Web Of Science, Puspanjali Hazarika, Atrayee Kashyap

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study attempts to define ethnomusicology as the study of people making music through the lens of mapping of research publications. People make sounds that are in ways or other sometimes considered as “music,” stretching into a specific cultural domain. This study delves into the idea of different types of music publications as a contingent cultural category. The necessary data were collected from the Web of Science database during 1996-2020 and analyzed accordingly.

Research Productivity Of Journal Of Documentation: A Bibliometric Analysis, Dinesh Kumari Kundu, Nirmal Kumar Swain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study reflects the bibliometric analysis of 211 articles appeared in ‘JDoc’ from 2007 to 2011. Different parameters of bibliometrics such as the yearly distribution of publications; exponential growth rate, relative growth rate; doubling time of publications; authorship pattern; the degree of collaboration among authors; pagination pattern of publications; top ten keywords, countries, institutions & top ten most cited papers. The study reveals that the majorities of publications published in the ‘JDoc’ were research papers (87.05%) and rest were review papers (12.95%). The exponential growth rate remained between 0.97 to 1.04 with average relative growth rate (0.32) and with doubling …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Research Trends On Role Of Dispute Resolution Mechanisms In Family Law Conflicts, Himanshi Parekh, Yogesh Dharangutti

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper is a bibliometric analysis of research publications in the field of dispute resolution of family matters. The paper analyses the frequency of publications in this arena and identifying the research gaps. The paper utilizes literature published on this subject available at the Scopus database from 2011 to 2020. A total of 59 documents varying from books, chapters, articles, and journals have been extracted and analyzed for the purpose of this study. This data is further analyzed and presented in the forms of tables, maps, graphs, etc using VOSviewer and IMAPBuilder software. The study shows that even though there …

A Scientometric Profile Of Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh (Assam) Through The Lens Of Web Of Science, During 1989-2020, Pranjal Deka

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Dibrugarh University(DU) is a leading higher educational institution in NE India. It has a significant impact on research and development. This study covers the research productivity of the university from 1989-2020 through the Web of Science Database. The study reveals that research publications of the university are growing day by day in different dimensions. The year 2019 is the most productive year of the university. The department of chemistry is a significant department for research productivity. The university has proper international and intranational coordination among various institutions and researchers.

Law Library Blog (October 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

No abstract provided.

Mapping Of Scientific Literature On Islamic Economics, Banking And Finance 1955 To 2020, Mohammad Imdadul Haque, Shakil Ahmad, Mohammad Shakir Azad

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Islamic economics provides an Islamic viewpoint to a flourishing economic society. It promises to provide solutions to economic issues and challenges, but as a discipline is still in its nascent stage. This study attempts to appraise the present status of research in Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance using a bibliometric examination of research articles indexed in Scopus for the period 1955-2020. This research shows an increasing trend over the study period with Malaysia having the highest number of publications. United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and France are also major contributors to this discipline. The study finds Islamic economics as being …

Mapping Of Literature On Nanotechnology: A Bibliometric Study, Dr. Jayaprakash G. Hugar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to analyse the research output performance on the Nanotechnology subject. A total of 11825 research articles published in Web of Science database were analyzed to find the performance of Nanotechnology related scientists from all over the world in terms of growth during the period 2013-2017 (last five years). Annual growth rate, global publication share, and ranking among ten countries of the world, a prolific author in the field, high productive Institutions, Journals, etc. are studied in this article. This study reveals that the maximum numbers of funding agencies are from China. The average number of publications per …

Scientometric Study Of Nobel Laureate Of Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (Mit), Abhay Maurya

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study aims to bring out the contributions made by the Nobel Laureates associated with the Department of Chemistry, MIT at any time in their academic career. Further, it views the impact of the scholarly publications produced by these Nobel Laureates, all the publication data were retrieved from the Scopus database for analysis. The study focuses on Publication per year, Bibliographic forms of publications, Authorship pattern, Degree of collaboration, Co-Authorship, Citation analysis, Channel of communication, h-index and Language pattern of research publications.

From The Gas: Congratulations, Publications, Presentations, The University Of Southern Mississippi

SLIS Connecting

News and congratulations from SLIS Graduate Assistants for student, alumni, and faculty accomplishments, publications, and presentations.

How Many Copies Are Enough Revisited: Open Access Legal Scholarship In The Time Of Collection Budget Constraints, Kincaid C. Brown

Law Librarian Scholarship

This article discusses the results of a study into the open access availability of law reviews, followed by a discussion of why open access has such a high rate of adoption among law reviews, especially in comparison to the journal literature in other disciplines.

Hot Topics In Recent Lis Publications, Guoying Liu

Leddy Library Presentations

No abstract provided.

Selectedworks: Library Services' New Researcher Profile Tool, Heidi J. Southworth

Library Services Publications

Launched in fall 2017, SelectedWorks lets you collaborate with Library Services to build on online scholarly presence that is reputable, sustainable, and comprehensive - and can be completed in just minutes! SelectedWorks is a companion tool to Cornerstone, the University's Institutional Repository, and SelectedWorks connects to Cornerstone to share and promotion your research and creative activities. Articles, presentations, video, white papers, or data sets - all your works can be gathered in one place and presented to the world in your very own, personalized researcher profile page. Use SelectedWorks to highlight your expertise, achievements, honors, and even post your resume …

Chinese American Librarians Association: Embracing Diversity And Outreaching To The Global Community, Sai Deng, Ying Zhang

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

From The Gas, Congratulations, Publications, Presentations, Teresa S. Welsh Ph.D., Mlis

SLIS Connecting

SLIS GAs, students, alums, and faculty congratulations, publications, presentations.

Tracking 50 Plus Years Of Growth In Scholarly Output In The School Of Medicine And Health Sciences, The Milken Institute School Of Public Health And The School Of Nursing, Anne Linton, Thomas Harrod, Paul Levett

GW Research Days 2016 - 2020

The Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library serves the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, the Milken Institute School of Public Health, and the School of Nursing. Over the last half century, the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the more recently incorporated Schools of Public Health and Nursing, have experienced substantial growth in their research enterprise and a corresponding increase in scholarly communications. Using statistics and metrics derived from bibliographic databases, this poster will track the growth in scholarly output from 1960 to the present. Number of publications will be tracked and additional metrics will be explored. These metrics include …

Law School Institutional Repositories: A Survey, Kincaid C. Brown

Law Librarian Scholarship

There has been a dramatic rise in the number of law libraries managing institutional repositories for their law schools. In 2011, there were some 30 law schools with such repositories; now, 80 of the top 100 law schools have their own or participate in a university-wide repository wherein the law school has an identifiable, school-specific collection or community. This article discusses a survey of the of the top 101 law schools, in hopes of facilitating an understanding of the breadth of material to be found in law school institutional repositories.

From The Gas, Congratulations, Publications, Presentations, Teresa S. Welsh Ph.D., Mlis

SLIS Connecting

No abstract provided.

Scholarly Publications By The Faculty Members Of Periyar University, Salem, India: A Scientometric Approach, Natarajan Radhakrishnan, Chandran Velmurugan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study aims to bring out the contributions made by the members of various departments of Periyar University, Salem. Further, it views the impact of the scholarly publications produced from Periyar University in India and the data analyzed for the study were retrieved from Web of Science (WOS) database for a period from 1998 to 2014. The study focuses on publishing trend, authorship pattern, and type of documents, country wise distribution of authors and individual authors’ research publications and their TLCS, TCLS, TLCR and so on.

Library 2.0: A Bibliometric Assessment Of Global Literature During 2004-14, Brij Mohan Gupta Dr, Surinder Mohan Dhawan Dr, Jivesh Bansal Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study looks at the composition and growth of world publications output on Library 2.0. The total world output on Library 2.0 during 2004-14 cumulated to 186 papers; and the world output witnessed 6.67% quinquennial growth from 2004-2009 to 2010-14, There were 1183 citations to 186 papers since their publication. In all 65.31% publications received 1 to 30+ citations per paper during 2004-14. Top 10 most productive countries, (out of forty) contributed 80.1% publication share and 94.77% citation share. Social sciences accounted for the highest publications share (79.57%), followed by computer science (46.77%), business, management & accounting, arts & …

From The Gas, Congratulations, Publications, And Presentations, Teresa Welsh Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

Find out about what our alum, students, and faculty have been doing.