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Data News Information Ecological Chain Formation And Succession And Operation Value Analysis, Haiqun Ma, Zhongjun Li, Tao Zhang

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]From the perspective of informatics,analyze the theoretical roots of data journa-lism and the formation and succession mechanism of information chain,demonstrate its operation and value,promote the theoretical construction of data journalism, and provide empirical analysis for the theory of information ecological chain.[Method/process]Based on the theory of information ecological chain,analyze the formation and succession of the data news information ecological chain from four aspects:information subject, information ontology,relationship between information subjects,and information environment,and construct a data news information ecological chain operating mechanism model,Discuss the value of data news information ecological chain operation.[Result/conclusion]The operation of the data news information ecological chain promotes the upgrading …

Research On The Orientation Of Intelligence Studies Education From The Perspective Of Discipline Research Object Evolution, Shuqing Li, Zhen Su, Weiwei Jiang, Xia Xu

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]The key to understand a discipline education is to determine the discipline research object,and to clarify the characteristics and key points of the relevant research contents in all stages of historical development,especially the social and national needs that need to serve the current era background.[Method/process]This paper first analyzes the relationship between the research object and related concepts of intelligence studies.From the perspective of the positioning of the research object,the relationship between intelligence studies and related disciplines is analyzed with focusing on the information and data related disciplines closely such as information science,data science,etc.The paper finally completes the definition of the …

Application Process And Value Evaluation Of The Swot-Ahp-Topsis Analyzing Model In Military Decision-Making Analysis, Qianhui Xu, Jie Wen

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]The high risk and high confrontation of military system lead to the special complexity of military decision-making analysis compared with other fields,which also puts forward higher requirements for the scientificity and rationality of military decision-making analysis.Proper military decision-making analyzing tools can play an effective auxiliary role in strategy formulation and selection.Therefore, it is particularly significant to choose scientific and reasonable military decision-making analyzing tools.[Method/process]Based on previous studies,this article introduces the SWOT-AHP-TOPSIS analysis model,a latest development form of the SWOT analysis,into military decision-making analysis,expounds its method, principle and analysis process,and takes the sea power control strategy of the coast guard of …

Making Music In Music City: Conversations With Nashville Music Industry Professionals, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Making Music in Music City: Conversations with Nashville Music Industry Professionals. John Markert Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2021 ISBN: 9781621906445 218 p. $34.95 (Hbk)

Margaret Murray Washington: The Life And Times Of A Career Clubwoman, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Margaret Murray Washington: The life and Times of a Career Clubwoman. Sheena Harris. Knoxville: University of Tennessee. Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781621906193. 210 p. $55.00 (Hbk)

Patriots In Exile: Charleston Rebels In St. Augustine During The American Revolution, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Patriots in Exile: Charleston Rebels in St. Augustine during the American Revolution. James Waring McCrady and C.L. Bragg. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2020 ISBN: 9781643360799 248 p. $29.99 (Hbk)

Roadside Americans: The Rise And Fall Of Hitchhiking In A Changing Nation, A. Blake Denton

The Southeastern Librarian

Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation. Jack Reid. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020 ISBN: 9781469655000 264 p. $29.95 (Hbk

Sharks In The Shallows: Attacks On The Carolina Coast, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Sharks in the Shallows: Attacks on the Carolina Coast. W. Clay Creswell. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2021 ISBN: 9781643361802 184 p. $19.99 (Pbk)

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement Of New Orleans, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans. Macon Fry. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021 ISBN: 9781496833075 232 p. $25.00 (Hbk)

Plagiarism Detection Software: A Comparative Evaluation, Sunayana D. Jadhav, Shalini R. Lihitkar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Plagiarism detection software has become need of the hour. Academicians need to acknowledge this fact and should take some steps towards this new change towards research ethics and reliability. In this research paper, researchers attempt to cover the concept of plagiarism and analyses some of the plagiarism detection software with their features and functions, like-pricing and availability, user-friendliness, publisher checking, internet checking, language support etc. This evaluation of plagiarism detection software will help to enable researchers and academicians to understand the importance of plagiarism and the available functionalities of plagiarism checking tools.

Knowledge Management Skills For 21st Century Library Professionals In India: A Study, Subaveerapandiyan A, Dharmavarapu Sindhu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In any kind of educational institute and organization, libraries are playing a crucial role. For the development of library services, skillful library professionals are indispensable. Without knowledge management skills, no one can provide essential services to the users. “Library is a growing organism” by S.R. Ranganathan (1931), based on his law, as library professionals have to adopt futuristic skills for better user services. The study investigates knowledge management skills and the chief strengths of library and information science professionals in India. For this study, data collected from the Institute of National Importance and Central Universities around India. The principal aim …

Roles Of Librarians In Combating Misinformation On Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19), Grace D. Pelemo Mrs., Millie Horsfall Phd, Onyinye Alexander Osedo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The outbreak of the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China and the attendant explosion of “fake news” brings to the fore the need for Librarians and Libraries as well as other information providers to offer access to dependable information resources for the consumption of their patrons and users. Giving access to reliable sources of information and resources with minimal barriers comprises cooperation among Librarians and Libraries. This article surveyed the roles of Librarians and Libraries in response to the problems of fake news and misinformation arising from the outbreak of COVID-19 focusing on how librarians and other information professionals …

Rebuilding Orcid Campus Outreach During A Pandemic, Christina M. Miskey

Library Faculty Research

Since 2017, ORCID outreach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has stagnated due to insufficient staffing. A new librarian was tasked in early 2020 with facilitating new ORCID campus outreach and education with campus researchers. Simultaneously, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the university campus to shut down, which significantly limited the ability to forge relationships and outreach. Despite these challenges, the new librarian managed to rebuild campus partnerships, establish relationships with library colleagues, and develop an outreach plan that focused on creating virtual services such as workshops and on expanding digital resources such as LibGuides and tutorials to reach faculty …

Do Search Engines Display All Search Hits?, Mufazil Ali, Fayaz Ahmad Loan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

Purpose: The web is used to gather information through Search tools globally. These search tools display results as HITS (Hyper-Text Induced Theme Search). This study aims to explore how accurate search tools are when search hits are counted and displayed.

Methodology: The paper began with search tools and search terms recognition. Academic search tools Google Scholar, BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), CORE (Connecting Repositories) were identified. Using the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), the subject areas were selected from the fields of Economics and Political Science. Search terms were selected from the Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH). The …

Simulating Subject Communities In Case Law Citation Networks, Jerrold Tsin Howe Soh

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

We propose and evaluate generative models for case law citation networks that account for legal authority, subject relevance, and time decay. Since Common Law systems rely heavily on citations to precedent, case law citation networks present a special type of citation graph which existing models do not adequately reproduce. We describe a general framework for simulating node and edge generation processes in such networks, including a procedure for simulating case subjects, and experiment with four methods of modelling subject relevance: using subject similarity as linear features, as fitness coefficients, constraining the citable graph by subject, and computing subject-sensitive PageRank scores. …

Mapping The Literature Of Health Care Management: An Update, Amber T. Burtis, Susan M. Howell, Mary K. Taylor

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Objective: This study aims to identify the core journals cited in the health care management literature and to determine their coverage in the foremost bibliographic databases used by the discipline.

Methods: Using the methodology outlined by the Medical Library Association’s Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section (NAHRS) protocol for “Mapping the Literature of Nursing and Allied Health Professions,” this study updates an earlier study published in 2007. Cited references from articles published in a three-year range (2016–2018) were collected from five health care management journals. Using Bradford’s Law of Scattering, cited journal titles were tabulated and ranked according to the …

From Principles To Practices: Open Science At Europe’S Universities. 2020-2021 Eua Open Science Survey Results, Rita Morais, Bregt Saenen, Federica Garbuglia, Stephane Berghmans, Vinciane Gaillard

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

This report presents the outcomes of the 2020-2021 EUA Open Science Survey and provides evidencebased recommendations for institutions, researchers, research funders and policymakers on the transition towards Open Science. The 2020-2021 EUA Open Science Survey focused on the level of development of Open Science in Europe‘s universities, addressing the role of Open Science in institutions’ strategic priorities and its implementation in institutional practices. In addition, the survey transversally addressed both the established (Open Access, research data) and emerging (e.g. citizen science, open education) fields of Open Science. This survey was open to all interested European higher academic institutions from October …

Exploring The Current Status And Emerging Trends Of Digital Scholarly Communication: A Citation Analysis Of “Australian Journal Of Chemistry”, Sana Zia, Sudharma Haridasan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the current status and emerging trends of digital scholarly communication through the distribution of citations. It specifically identifies the usage framework of digital research works by the citation analysis of “Australian Journal of Chemistry”. Articles published in “Australian Journal of Chemistry” were chosen as a sample source for data. The data were collected from the time of 2011-2020 i.e. the period of 10 years. The references of every article from each issue of the “Australian Journal of Chemistry” were searched on May 19, 2021. Total of the 42126 citations were retrieved, …

Perceived Usefulness Of Social Media Tools In Research: A Survey Of University Lis Postgraduate Students, Ahmad Nawaz, Dr. Rais Ahmad Samdani

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The intense penetration of ICT through the application of social media in society, particularly in communications, has altered the ways of social interaction, business, education and research. Being a bandwagon concept, postgraduate (PG) students are also heavily influenced by the use of SMTs in their research. Thus, the present study assesses the extent and perceived usefulness of SMTs for communication, collaboration and, multimedia/Interactive media services in addition to find influential factors to use SMTs in research. The study has employed census taking enumerative approach to collect data on a structured questionnaire from the LIS postgraduate students (M.Phil and Ph.D) enrolled …

Leveraging Bepress’S New Api For Metadata Transformations, Aaron Retteen

Sandbox Series

Getting metadata and content into our Digital Commons institutional repository was always straightforward, but getting information from the repository was always limited and challenging. With the recent release of an API, Digital Commons repositories can be engaged with in exciting new ways. For this series, I’ll discuss my summer project of taking metadata stored into the repository and transforming it into clean metadata for importation to our university’s research information system.

The Value Of Republishing Scientific Literature In Institutional Repositories, Sue Ann Gardner, Linnea Fredrickson, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Background: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln University Libraries institutional repository was founded in 2005 on the Digital Commons platform. It currently contains more than 118,000 full-text scholarly works that have been downloaded over 73,000,000 times.

Problem that drove the project: Older scientific literature may only occasionally circulate from university library collections or be purchased by readers from remaindered publishers' stock.

Methods: This research will employ statistical analyses to demonstrate the value of making available four series of scientific literature in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln University Libraries Digital Commons: Insecta Mundi, the Nebraska Bird Review, the Transactions of the Nebraska …

Interested In Institutional Open Access Policies? Coapi Can Help!, Arthur J. Boston, Jere Odell, Mona Ramonetti, Alainna Wrigley

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Open access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Institutional open access policies serve as a pledge by institutional authors to make their works open access in a repository to ensure that anyone can access and use their research—to turn ideas into industries and breakthroughs into better lives. Librarians that support policy implementation connect readers from far and wide to research—getting to the heart of what an academic library should be. Often trained in providing faculty guidance and familiar with scholarly publishing, librarians are well …

What’S The Big Deal? How Researchers Are Navigating Changes To Journal Access, Danielle Cooper, Oya Y. Rieger

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The dominant mode by which research libraries have provided maximum journal access as cheaply as possible—subscription bundles or “Big Deals”—is giving way to new approaches. This transition is taking place through a combination of negotiations, activism, business modeling, user needs research, and decision support, among other factors. To support these processes, Ithaka S+R partnered with 11 academic libraries to understand researcher perceptions to help inform their ongoing strategic decision making about Big Deal journal subscriptions.

Recognizing that libraries must also undertake case-by-case assessments prior to making decisions about any particular journal package, in this report we share findings from the …

The Malaysian Journal Of Library & Information Science (2007-2020): A Bibliometric Study, Gyanajeet Yumnam, Ibohal Singh Ch Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science (MJLIS) is an indexed journal of the Web of Science. Researchers from across the world are found to contribute articles and other communications to the same. It plays a crucial role in disseminating scholarly communications in the field of Library and Information Science. The present bibliometric study attempts to visualise the journal's data contents published during 2007-2020 using the bibliometrix R-package Biblioshiny tool, HistCite, and VOSviewer software. For the analysis, data has been extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection Database. Analysing the dynamics of the trends of publication pattern, …

Automation Using Metadata Filters & Leveraging Research Assistants, Rachel Evans, Savanna Nolan

Sandbox Series

The first sandbox session will feature Rachel Evans, Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian, and Savanna Nolan, Faculty & Instructional Services Librarian, from UGA Law Library: As part of larger efforts university-wide to highlight diversity leading up to the 60th anniversary of desegregation at UGA, the law school focused on identifying materials including photographs, class directors and news articles related to the school's earliest minority graduates. Although a physical exhibit began to take shape in the summer of 2020, limited building access presented challenges in sharing aspects of the exhibit with the community. Rachel and Savanna will share the method …

Copyright In A Post-Covid World: How Remote Teaching Has Informed Copyright And Licensing Support, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Lightning Talk presented at the Kraemer Copyright Conference 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly changed the teaching environment and has provided both challenges and opportunities for copyright and licensing support. This lightning talk will reflect on the public health crisis’ impact on online teaching, explore copyright and licensing challenges faced by educators, share examples from the University of Central Florida, and provide best practices and tips for outreach and support for those who facilitate copyright information at their institution. It will also reflect on how the pandemic has provided increased interest in open access materials, including openly licensed works and open …

Science Research Output Pattern Of University Of Delhi (2015-2019), Rajesh Singh Dr, Avijit Mahala Dr, Shreya Yadav

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The current research has been conducted to tress out the science research output of University of Delhi (DU) in the last five years (2015-2019) after using Web of Science (WOS) database. The present study has used Web of Science databases to collect the science research output of University of Delhi for the specified period. The retrieved data were analyzed using specific parameters. This study investigates the most productive institutes, countries, authors the impact of their output in terms of Relative Citation Impact (RCI) and Citation per Paper (CPP). For visualizing purposes, VOS Viewer has been used. We retrieved 6500 papers …

Electronic Theses: Why Pakistan Is Lagging Behind, Abid Hussain Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose

The paper aimed to extract and analyze the work of Pakistan Research Repository (A theses portal of Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. Quantitative research has been carried out to describe the purpose and scope of the Pakistan Research Repository and its contribution to the research arena. A center measurement has also been brought into use to make it more effective and efficient to inquire about the contents being shown to the researchers of Pakistan and abroad.

Design/methodology/approach

The article focuses on quantitative and critical analysis of Pakistan Research Repository. A multi-tier research design was used to know about PRR. The …

Thinking Politically About Scholarly Infrastructure: Commit The Publishers To 2.5%, Arthur J. Boston

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Maybe it’s unsurprising that I think about scholarly communication in terms similar to U.S. politics. I originally drafted this article for the Library Publishing Coalition blog before the 2020 election and revised it for C&RL News during the weirdly long interregnum period before the actual inauguration. The 2016 Republican National Committee was the backdrop to my becoming a scholarly communication librarian in February of that year. That’s also when I joined Twitter, to better follow politics and librarianship, and maybe that’s to blame.

Global Analysis Of High Cited Papers On “Impact Of Covid-19 On Mental Health” During 2020-21, Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur Mr., Brij Mohan Gupta Dr., Sandeep Grover Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A bibliometric analysis based on 160 highly cited papers extracted from the Scopus international database was carried out to provide insights into literature characteristics and publication performances of various participating actors on “Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health”. Quantitative and qualitative Indicators were applied to measure the productivity and citation impact of most productive participating countries, organizations, authors, journals and significant keywords and to visualise and measure collaborative interaction among them using VOSviewer software. Results obtained from this study can provide valuable information for researchers and policy-makers to identify present and future hotspots in research on “Impact of COVID-19 on …