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Albertsons Library Data Management Strategic Agenda, Margie Ruppel, Megan Davis, Michelle Armstrong, Amber Sherman Jan 2016

Albertsons Library Data Management Strategic Agenda, Margie Ruppel, Megan Davis, Michelle Armstrong, Amber Sherman

Data Management Services

Albertsons Library Data Management Strategic Agenda outlines areas of emphasis and specific activities that the library will engage in over the next two years (January 2015 - December 2016) in support of its data management services initiative. These activities will help define an evolving framework where the library serves as an active partner throughout the scholarly and research lifecycle. The foundation for this framework is a commitment to collaboration, open information sharing and discovery, and a focus on providing point of need services.


Open Peer Review In Scientific Publishing: A Web Mining Study Of Peerj Authors And Reviewers, Peiling Wang, Sukjin You, Manasa Rath, Dietmar Wolfram Jan 2016

Open Peer Review In Scientific Publishing: A Web Mining Study Of Peerj Authors And Reviewers, Peiling Wang, Sukjin You, Manasa Rath, Dietmar Wolfram

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Purpose: To understand how authors and reviewers are accepting and embracing Open Peer Review (OPR), one of the newest innovations in the open science movement.

Design: This research collected and analyzed data from the Open Access journal PeerJ over its first three years (2013-2016). Web data were scraped, cleaned, and structured using several Web tools and programs. The structured data were imported into a relational database. Data analyses were conducted using analytical tools as well as programs developed by the researchers.

Findings: PeerJ, which supports optional OPR, has a broad international representation of authors and referees. Approximately 73.89% …