Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization
The digitization of millions of books under programs such as Google Book Search and Microsoft Live Search Books is dramatically expanding our ability to search and find information. This paper examines large-scale initiatives to identify issues that will influence the availability and usability, over time, of the digital books that… Read More
Differences in impact factor across fields and over time
The bibliometric measure impact factor is a leading indicator of journal influence, and impact factors are routinely used in making decisions ranging from selecting journal subscriptions to allocating research funding to deciding tenure cases. This paper looks at whether the impact factors are going up, what aspect of the impact… Read More
How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content
This White Paper is published by Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger. The research repeats an earlier study performed in 2005 by Scholarly Information Strategies (for whom the authors were consultants) that asks researchers about their preferred start points. The subtle shifts in user preferences provide a valuable insight into user… Read More
Semantic Enrichment: The Key to Successful Knowledge Extraction from STM Literature
Scholarly research and the dissemination of research output are increasing at a rapid pace. This offers STM information providers the opportunity to expand their publishing, database development, and knowledge dissemination services. This white paper identifies the key trends that triggered the information explosion and how this resulted in a paradigm… Read More
A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures
The impact of scientific publications has traditionally been expressed in terms of citation counts. However, scientific activity has moved online over the past decade. To better capture scientific impact in the digital era, a variety of new impact measures has been proposed on the basis of social network analysis and… Read More
Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication
The networked digital environment has enabled the creation of many new kinds of works that are accessible to end users directly, and many of these resources have become essential tools for scholars conducting research, building scholarly networks, and disseminating their ideas and work. In the spring of 2008, ARL engaged… Read More
Maximizing Revenue and Minimizing Piracy
Article tools and the copyright notice can work in concert to greatly improve the usability of content and increase publisher revenue, while reducing piracy of copyrighted content. Most publishers are missing the boat. Article tools give readers the green light to do something with content besides read it. So does… Read More
Leveraging Web 2.0 for B2B Media – Ideas & Best Practices
This whitepaper seeks to help B2B media companies leverage Web 2.0 and social media tactics and technologies. Created by American Business Media’s Media Marketing Committee, it focuses on education for those B2B media executives who are not familiar with many of the latest Web 2.0 applications or whose companies have… Read More
Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow
Written by consultant Judy Luther, President, Informed Strategies, this white paper analyses the current state of metadata creation, exchange and use throughout the book supply chain. The white paper was commissioned by NISO and OCLC as a follow-up to the Symposium for Publishers and Librarians held by OCLC on March… Read More
Access by UK small and medium-sized enterprises to professional and academic information
This report explores issues around levels of access to research journals by SMEs, drawing on three sources: a literature review and primary data from an online survey, supported by qualitative interviews. There are 4.7 million SMEs in the UK representing 99.9% of all firms and responsible for 59% of private… Read More
