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Building A Future-Ready Workforce - Embedding Bibliometric Capabilities At Unsw Library, Jacinta Byrne
Building A Future-Ready Workforce - Embedding Bibliometric Capabilities At Unsw Library, Jacinta Byrne
Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences
The growing reliance of institutions, governments, funding bodies and world rankings schemes on quantitative indicators of research performance has increased demand from researchers and research administrators for advice, services and tools to measure and understand the impact of research activities. The pitfalls and potential perverse outcomes of the metrification of research management are well documented and a growing concern across the library and university sectors. This paper will explore how UNSW Library is equipping library staff to respond to the growing demand for advice and services in this area. A staff capacity building program, the Bibliometric Capability Framework, has been …
Bibliometric Services In Research Evaluation: A New Task Area Strengthening The Jurisdiction Of Academic Librarians, Sabrina Petersohn
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
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 …