Joe Lenkart is International Reference Librarian, Thomas H. Teper is Associate University Librarian for Collections and Technical Services, Mara Thacker is South Asian Studies Librarian, and Steven W. Witt is Head of the International and Area Studies Library in the Main Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], mthacker@illino...

Introduction. This paper reports on a study undertaken for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which explored the economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models. Rather than simply summarising the study’s findings, this paper focuses on the approach and presents a step-by-step account of the research process, highlighting the combination of process mapping, acti...

This paper reports on a survey carried out at the University of the West of England (UWE) into the use of electronic journals (e-journals) by academics and their attitudes towards them. The study is set within the context of the rapid expansion of e-journals and their potential impact on scholarly communication, and compared with previous user surveys reported in the literature. The findings su...

As astutely noted by the authors of this provocative article, it is time for evolutionary psychology (EP) to be incorporated into clinical and educational interventions. However, two issues from this article are raised in the current commentary: some historical misconceptions of the evolutionary label and a lack of clear and specific guidelines for developing or improving interventions based on...

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AESTRACT LARGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES FACE particular challenges in selecting information resources, organizing them, and providing direct services to support interdisciplinary scholarship. The tension between generalization and specialization is manifested in these core activities and in the debate over branch versus centralized libraries. External factors affecting library strategies include th...

Introduction Altmetrics has been a shelter for all possible alternative indicators corresponding to traditional citation-based indicators, with extra focus on online indicators. Altmetrics has been discussed in variety of contexts, such as open science (Mounce, 2013), institutional depositories (Adie, Francois, & Nixon, 2014), publishing industry (Piwowar, 2013) and scholarly communication refo...

Traditional journals, even those available electronically, are changing slowly. However, there is rapid evolution in scholarly communication. Usage is moving to electronic formats. In some areas, it appears that electronic versions of papers are being read about as often as the printed journal versions. Although there are serious difficulties in comparing figures from different media, the growt...

Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we investigated whether and how scholars cite on Twitter. We conducted interviews and harvested 46,515 tweets from a sample of 28 scholars and found that they do cite on Twitter, though often indirectly. Twitter citations are part of a fas...