Introduction: Academic liaison librarians play a pivotal role in supporting graduate students with their scholarly endeavors, particularly research dissemination. Researcher profile systems (RPSs) are important for promoting academic work; they ensure name attribution and facilitate research distribution. Academic librarians are advocates of these systems and provide support and instruction for them. This article reports on a pre–post survey evaluating a library workshop on RPSs for graduate students, as well as the changes made to the workshop based on the results of the survey. Methods: The authors co-taught a workshop about RPSs six times between 2021 and 2022. Pre- and post-surveys were distributed to all registrants and attendees. Based on the results of the surveys, the authors updated the workshop in Fall 2023. Discussion: Changes to the workshop included a broader discussion of the linkages among RPSs, less discussion about profile setup, and the inclusion of a self-reflection exercise to help students decide which tool(s) to use. The changes led to a refreshed workshop reflective of graduate students’ needs. Conclusion: RPSs are important tools in creating researchers’ online identities. Librarians play an important role in guiding graduate students through these tools to help them promote their work. Using a mixture of asynchronous and synchronous instruction encourages uptake of these tools at a scholarly institution and supports graduate students in their academic development. Further, ongoing workshop assessment is important to keep the material relevant to students. Data Availability: All research data, worksheets, and workshop presentations are available at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/F6KAR

The aim of this study was to investigate factors affecting the adoption of open access in research activities within Tanzanian public universities in order to device mechanisms of enhancing the use of this mode of scholarly communication. The study adopted the UTAUT model to formulate an open access research model comprising of six constructs and five moderators for guidance of this investigation. A triangulation approach for data gathering was adopted. In the first instance, a semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 398 respondents selected using the stratified random sampling from a population of 1088 university researchers from six public universities in Tanzania. The interview involving 63 policy makers and structured records review were also conducted to complement the questionnaire survey. The descriptive and binary logistic regression statistics of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) were used for data analysis. The study established that majority of the policy makers (90.5%) and researchers (72.1%) were aware of open access. Attitude, awareness, effort expectancy, and performance expectancy were established as the key determinants for researchers’ behavioural intention of open access usage while age, awareness, behavioural intention, facilitating conditions and social influence were found to significantly affect researchers’ actual usage of open access. It was concluded that researchers’ and policy makers’ general perceptions about open access were very positive signifying the acceptance of this mode of scholarly communication in the study area. Current poor research conditions and researchers’ low Internet self-efficacy such as inadequate information search and online publishing skills were cited as the main hindrances for researchers to use open access in scholarly communication. The study recommends institutionalisation of open access publishing in Tanzanian public universities and other similar research institutions so as to improve the dissemination of research output emanating from such institutions. Six areas for further research to establish more insights regarding the feasibility for open access development in the country are also recommended. / Information Science / D. Litt. Phil. (Information Science)

Emanating in a Swedish and British context, this study seeks to map and discuss contemporary performative tendencies within the countries’ respective open access movements. This is done through a Posthumanist and Material-Semiotic analysis of nine research funders policy documents for open access to scientific results. Using an actor-network-theoretical apparatus of concepts, the study seeks to assess actors, actants, intermediaries, mediators, agencies, connections and networks in the policy documents of the respective research funders. The study therefore aspires to illuminate the complexities of these networks, similarities and differences between the two countries’ networks and what these networks can say about contemporary tendencies within the Swedish and British open access movements respectively. Actors with their associated agencies and performative connections are analysed and compiled in tables according to the respective research funders. The output is thereafter visualised in a schematic network model and the performative tendencies are assessed. While Swedish council Vetenskapsrådet is defined as a ”spider in the web” of the research funder network, the British network is more fragmentary. As for Bioscientific networks, the Swedish network is of a more peripheral sort while the British consists of sprawling nodes. Within Health Science, there is for both countries a clear direction towards the fortification of infrastructures for data deposition. This can also be said regarding the deposition of monographs in Social Science and the Humanities. These tendencies are discussed in light of international open access research. It is proposed that research funders, libraries and other professionals active within the open access movements considers these tendencies in the forming of service activities. It is also emphasized that similar studies ought to be done in order to further map open access-networks. Two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.

O foco deste estudo é a Biblioteca Publicadora, modelo difundido em biblioteca internacional universitária ou de pesquisa para designar a biblioteca que atua em serviços de edição de conteúdos acadêmicos. Discute a produção do livro digital pelo serviço de publicação, diferente do modelo de publicação tradicional nacional voltado normalmente à produção de revistas digitais. Ao expandir seu campo de atuação, a biblioteca reafirma sua missão de preservação e circulação da informação através da reformulação e acréscimo da atividade de publicação de conteúdos digitais acessíveis irrestritamente. O trabalho destaca também a parceria Biblioteca Publicadora/Editora Universitária na construção de um modelo de publicação para conteúdos digitais, ressaltando suas dificuldades e ações por subsistência no meio acadêmico; envolvendo a busca por novos autores, leitores. Descreve a contribuição de entidades e associações, como o Library Publishing Coalition, voltadas à divulgação de práticas da publicação em formatos acessíveis via web e difusão de cursos para contribuir na formação de pessoas envolvidas na área. Este trabalho trata também das dificuldades do acesso aberto pelas vias verde, dourada, bronze, modelos híbridos, black ou piratas, além da importância do conhecimento sobre licenças de uso pela comunidade acadêmica. Apresenta estudos de caso provenientes de biblioteca de pesquisa e por editora da iniciativa privada apresentando fluxo de criação do livro digital por aplicativo de edição de conteúdo. Aponta alguns desafios da biblioteca publicadora no mundo editorial, como a relação editor/bibliotecário e as perspectivas para implementação e continuidade destas atividades. / The focus of this study is the library publishing model disseminated into international university or research libraries in order to designate the library which acts in services of academic content editions. It discusses the production of digital book by a publishing service which is different from the traditional national publication model usually aimed at the production of digital journals. By expanding its field of activity, the library reaffirms its mission of preserving and circulating information by reformulating and adding the activity of publishing freely accessible digital content. The work also highlights the partnership of the Library Publishing-University Press in the building of a model of publication for digital contents, highlighting their difficulties and actions for subsistence in the academic environment; involving the search for new authors and readers. It further describes the contribution of entities and associations, such as the Library Publishing Coalition, in order to propagate publishing practices in web-accessible formats and distribute courses to contribute to qualification for training people involved in the area. This work also deals with the difficulties of open access through green, gold, bronze, hybrid, black or pirate models, as well as the importance of knowledge about licenses for use by the academic community. It presents cases from a research library and a publishing house report as well as the workflow of production of digital books by content publishing software. In addition, it points out some challenges facing the library publishing world, such as the publisher/librarian relationship and perspectives for the implementation and continuity of these activities.

This study examined the effect of enhanced electronic access to information on patterns of scholarly communication. Using a panel typology, the academics at the Australian National University were surveyed in 1991 and again in 1994, with the data collected by means of mailed questionnaires. The research drew on the literature of scholarly communication and information-seeking behaviour. Principles of systems theory were used to explain the changes taking place within the academics' environments, including both the system of scholarly communication and the culture of the three disciplinary groupings: science, social science and the humanities. Three research questions directed the study focussing on the effect of enhanced electronic access to information on the academics' use of the library and on their patterns of information seeking and dissemination. Results found that between 1991 and 1994, while some aspects of communication technologies - such as email - had been almost universally adopted, overall, few changes had taken place in academics' information related behaviour. Scientists were more likely to have adopted the new technologies than social scientists or scholars from the humanities. However, there was strong evidence that a small group of academics were adopting the new technologies with enthusiasm suggesting that the overall pattern of use would change in the future.

The academic field of political science in Europe is studied in this thesis which examines the application of bibliometrics for domain analysis. It takes its point of departure in the domain analytic approach outlined by Birger Hjørland and Hanne Albrechtsen, which claims the study of domains as central for information specialists to be able to identify information needs in their fields of practice. Three features of the domain were studied by the use of bibliometric methods. Data was extracted from the Web of Science. Impact Factor was used to select 50 journals from each of the years 1999, 2004 and 2009. Only items published by authors with European addresses were included. Co-word analysis was used to study topics within the discipline and several kinds of citation analyses were conducted to examine citation patterns of the domain. Lastly core journals, authors and works were identified by the use of citation analysis and co-citation maps were drawn for the analyses.Several subfields within the domain, as well as some differences in citation patterns of the subfields, were possible to distinguish. The domain showed to be multifaceted, yet specific European research areas were identified. Some significant changes of the citation patterns were apparent between 1999 and 2009. In 2009 there were more references per article, journal articles were cited to a higher degree, relatively older publications were cited to a greater extent and the most cited journals received a larger share of the total amount of citations.The existence of a specific European domain within political science is discussed as well as the diverse characteristics of the subfields and their implications for the bibliometric methods. Finally suggestions are presented of how bibliometrics can be used for domain analysis within library and information science as well as by information service institutions.This paper is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science. / Det akademiska statsvetenskapliga fältet i Europa studeras i denna uppsats, vilken utforskar bibliometrins tillämpbarhet inom domänanalysen. Den tar sin utgångspunkt i det domänanalytiska perspektivet formulerat av Birger Hjørland och Hanne Albrechtsen, vilket hävdar studier av domäner som centrala för att informationsspecialister ska kunna identifiera informationsbehov inom sina verksamheter. Tre aspekter av domänen studerades med bibliometriska metoder, data hämtades från Web of Science. Impact Factor användes för att välja ut 50 tidskrifter för vardera av åren 1999, 2004 och 2009. Endast artiklar publicerade av författare med Europeiska adresser inkluderades. Co-word-analys användes för att studera disciplinens ämnesområden, flera olika citeringsanalyser genomfördes för att utforska citeringsmönster inom domänen och slutligen identifierades centrala tidskrifter, författare och verk genom citeringsanalys och co-citerings-kartor skapades för analyserna. Flera delfält inom domänen kunde urskiljas, samt några skillnader mellan delfältens citeringsmönster. Domänen visade sig vara multifacetterad, men specifikt europeiska forskningsområden kunde identifieras. Några betydande förändringar av citeringsmönstren var märkbara mellan åren 1999 och 2009. Artiklarna från 2009 innehöll fler referenser per artikel, tidskriftsartiklar citerades i högre grad, relativt äldre publikationer citerades i större utsträckning och de mest citerade tidskrifterna tog emot en större andel av citeringarna. Existensen av en specifik europeisk domän inom statsvetenskapen diskuteras samt hur de bibliometriska metoderna påverkas av skillnader mellan delfälten. Slutligen presenteras förslag på hur bibliometrin kan användas för domänanalys inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskapen samt av institutioner tillhandahållande informationstjänster.

Accepted for publication in Physics World (January 2007) / With the vast majority of scientific papers now available online, this paper (accepted for publication in Physics World) describes how the Web is allowing physicists and information providers to measure more accurately the impact of these papers and their authors. Provides a historical background of citation analysis, impact factor, new citation data sources (e.g., Google Scholar, Scopus, NASA's Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, MathSciNet, ScienceDirect, SciFinder Scholar, Scitation/SPIN, and SPIRES-HEP), as well as h-index, g-index, and a-index.

This presentation by the Director of the ARL Office of Scholarly Communication was given at the UBC Library on March 5, 2009, as part of the BC Research Libraries Group Lecture Series. The topic was a field study that she initiated involving the investigation of a range of new models of scholarly publishing and communication valued by scholars. There was a particular focus on works that push the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative by the faculty who use them. The findings were published in November 2008 and titled: Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication - Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries and can be found at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/current-models-report.pdf.

Peer review is considered the gold standard of scientific publishing. Trust in the traditional system of editor – blind-reviewer – author is still high, but it’s authority is in decline and alternative methods are on the rise. The current study investigates opinions of alternative peer review methods, the arguments for and against, and the reasons why academics are searching for new approaches. The opinions were analysed by applying qualitative content analysis to online discussions. The findings were interpreted using two different sociological theories: the Mertonian sociology of science and social constructivism. The results of the study show that the most discussed method was also the most traditional one: closed pre-publication peer review comprised of single blind, double-blind and open peer review (non blinded). Discussions of open peer review (both open publishing of reports and open discussions) were also common. All other alternative methods were discussed much less. But the discussions were lively and each method was discussed in both positive and negative terms. The reasons for preferring certain methods were also manifold, but dominant topics were bias and fairness, quality issues (regarding reviews and publications), issues concerning human resources and communication and exchange among people. The results of this study demonstrate that while ethical norms seems to be a scientific ideal, human nature makes it impossible to accomplish this goal.

Submitted by Priscilla Araujo (priscilla@ibict.br) on 2016-09-30T18:09:56Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) JAQUELINE BARRADAS 10 jan 2016 para impressao e distribuição.pdf: 3148491 bytes, checksum: 67ddc4ad19e9d9dd3dbd3604d589bc73 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-30T18:09:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) JAQUELINE BARRADAS 10 jan 2016 para impressao e distribuição.pdf: 3148491 bytes, checksum: 67ddc4ad19e9d9dd3dbd3604d589bc73 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-15 / O tema desta pesquisa é a comunicação cientifica no campo acadêmico-científico da Defesa Nacional. Trata-se de um estudo exploratório em que se identificou e analisou a produtividade científica dos docentes inseridos nos programas de pós-graduação em Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais, com áreas de concentração e linhas de pesquisa em defesa e segurança no Brasil, no triênio 2010-2012. O objetivo geral desta pesquisa é identificar, no processo de comunicação científica do campo da Defesa nacional, os seus componentes básicos relativos aos programas de pós-graduação, à produtividade dos docentes, às temáticas de pesquisa e aos canais de comunicação. Uma análise quali-quantitativa da produção técnico-cientifica dos docentes foi realizada a partir da contagem dos itens por ano; por tipo de publicação e por programa; o padrão de autoria; a endogenia e a publicação em canais de comunicação estrangeiros. Os resultados revelam que o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais San Tiago Dantas destaca-se pela expressiva produção científica, seguido do programa da UNB. Já o programa da PUC-Rio teve mais da metade (51%) de suas publicações em periódicos QUALIS A e o mesmo percentual em canais de publicações estrangeiros. Entre as características da produção científica, os canais de comunicação preferenciais para disseminação dos resultados das pesquisas estão os capítulos de livros e artigos de periódicos, em igualdade de condições; o padrão de autoria é a publicação individual e as publicações em canais de comunicação estrangeiros não se constituem um habitus do campo. A pesquisa revelou, entre os 90 docentes dos programas, os 20 mais produtivos. A média é de 8 artigos por autores no triênio, o que significa 2,6 de média anual, por autor, índice considerado satisfatório. São três as temáticas evidenciadas: Política Externa e Integração Regional, com 25% de frequência; Globalização, Governança e Desenvolvimento, com 17% de frequência; e Economia Política Internacional, com 13%. A pesquisa constatou que não há consenso sobre o conceito de Defesa, nem sobre em qual área deve estar hierarquicamente vinculada. Para que ocorra a institucionalização da Defesa como área do conhecimento, tornam-se urgentes esforços políticos, especialmente das políticas de ciência, tecnologia e inovação, a fim de conquistar espaço em cena. Os resultados apontam uma produção significativa no período no campo em construção. A área de Defesa, ainda incipiente como campo de conhecimento, precisa demonstrar seu potencial de crescimento por meio dos resultados que apresenta e os avanços conquistados até o momento. / This research theme is the scholarly communication in the academic-scientific field of national defense. This is an exploratory study that identified and analyzed the scientific productivity of teachers included in the programs of post graduate Political Science and International Relations, with areas of concentration and lines of research in defense and security in Brazil, in the triennium 2010 -2012. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the technical-scientific productivity of teachers was held from the count of items per year; by type of publication and program; the authorship pattern; endogeny and publication in foreign communication channels. The Graduate Program in International Relations San Tiago Dantas distinguished by significant scientific output, followed by the UNB program. But the PUC-Rio program had more than half (51%) of their publications in journals QUALIS A and the same percentage in foreign publications channels. Among the features of the scientific production, the preferred communication channels for the dissemination of research results are the book chapters and journal articles, on equal terms; the authorship pattern is the individual publication and publications in foreign communication channels do not constitute a habitus of the field. This research revealed, among the 90 teachers of the programs, the 20 most productive. The average is 8 articles by authors in three years, which means 2.6 annual average, by author, index satisfactory. There are three highlighted themes: Foreign and Regional Integration, with 25% attendance; Globalization, governance and development, with 17% attendance; and International Political Economy, with 13%. This research found that there is no consensus on the concept of defense, nor about which area should be hierarchically linked. For the occurrence of institutionalization of Defense as area of knowledge, become urgent political efforts, especially of science policy, technology and innovation, and how, in order to gain space on the scene. The results show a significant production during the construction field. The area Defense incipient as a field of knowledge, needs to demonstrate its growth potential through the results and presenting the progress made to date.