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The power of digital literacy Comprehensive user education to successfully navigate the Internet Part 4- Scholarly communication Course developed by University Library of Debrecen
Comprehensive user education to successfully navigate the Internet Part 4- Scholarly communication Course developed by University Library of Debrecen
Comprehensive user education to successfully navigate the
Internet Part 4- Scholarly communication Course developed by
University Library of Debrecen
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Topics covered Scientometrics: citaion index and impact factor
Process of scholarly communication Open access publishing
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Elements: Research (data search, trial,etc.) Conferences,
correspondence Writing a scholarly paper/article (manuscript,
preprint Publisher evaluation, peer review Final version
(postprint) Editing Publication of the article Dissemination
Reading the article: citation, reviews New research results
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Benefit to users Independent of space and time Interact with
other electronic resources Save users time (Ranganthansfourth Law)
Provides value addition such as searcheability, supplements,
formats unavailable in print formats Accelerated publication Can be
read by multiple users simultaneously Can not be mutilated, stolen,
lost vandalized etc etc. S ENDING COPIES Funding agencies A UTHORS
L ECTORS E DITORS LEKTORORK PUBLISHERS A ENCIES LIBRARIES R EADERS
PRODUCING CONTENT P REPARING AND DISSEMINATIING ELECTRONIC AND
PRINTED VERSIONS S ENDING COPIES U SING RESEARCH RESULTS
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Benefit to users Independent of space and time Interact with
other electronic resources Save users time (Ranganthansfourth Law)
Provides value addition such as searcheability, supplements,
formats unavailable in print formats Accelerated publication Can be
read by multiple users simultaneously Can not be mutilated, stolen,
lost vandalized etc etc. S ENDING COPIES Funding agencies A UTHORS
L ECTORS E DITORS LEKTORORK PUBLISHERS A ENCIES LIBRARIES R EADERS
P REPRINT (M ANUSCRIPT ) P OSTPRINT (P EER - REVIEWED VERSION ) P
UBLISHER S V ERSION E- PUBLISHING, PRINTING COPIES
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pre-print: the version of the paper before peer review
post-print: the version of the paper after peer-review, with
revisions having been made and before publishing dissemination:
action of spreading, diffusing research results Effective
dissemination: Reach targeted audiences Inspire future research
Provide opportunities for further re-use
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A process of measuring and analysing science, evaluating the
quality of research outputs The quality of a scholarly work is
meausred by its assessment and its integration into science. Goals:
Identify sources that are reliable Informing selective funding
allocations, Stimulating better research performance, Demonstrating
effectiveness
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SUBJECTIVE Qualitative evaluation (peer review): research
products submitted by institutions are evaluated by appointed
panels of experts. OBJECTIVE Quantitative evaluation: mainly based
of various ways of counting citations Impact factor - a measure
reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in
science and social science journals Immediacy index Number of
publication Citation index h-index Eigen factor
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INSTITUTIONS For money - Tenders Institutional ranking Shanghai
list (2003) Providing data INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHERS Personal prestige
Career Financial resources
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Transparency, education and communication are key to ensuring
that appropriate metrics are used to measure individual scientific
achievement. Bibliometrics is a quantitative method that is used to
measure different publishing and author citation patterns and
which, in turn, is used to measure ("quantify") scholarly impact.
As such, bibliometrics offers important advantages over other
evaluation methods and can be used to generate quantitative
indicators of collaboration and interdisciplinarity. As analytical
tools improve, they can be used to develop indicators of quality
and excellence.
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1.Impact Factor Journal Impact Factor is published in Journal
Citation Report (JCR), a product of Thomson ISI (Institute for
Scientific Information). The impact factor is a quantitative tool
for evaluating journals. It is a measure of the frequency with
which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a given
period of time.
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2. Immediacy index The Immediacy Index is the average number of
times an article is cited in the year it is published. Published in
the Journal Citation Report. The journal Immediacy Index indicates
how quickly articles in a journal are cited. The aggregate
Immediacy Index indicates how quickly articles in a subject
category are cited.
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3. Eigenfactor The Eigenfactor score is intended to measure the
importance of a journal to the scientific community, by considering
the origin of the incoming citations, and is thought to reflect how
frequently an average researcher would access content from that
journal. However, the Eigenfactor score is influenced by the size
of the journal, so that the score doubles when the journal doubles
in size (measured as published articles per year). The Article
Influence score measures the average influence of articles in the
journal, and is therefore comparable to the ISI impact factor.
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Factors to consider: Length of the publication list Which
journals did the researcher publish in? (IF) Citation index
Hirsch-index
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Each ademic work is related to a previous research Citations
are the links to connect research to other scholarly works A
citation index is a kind of bibliographic database, allowing the
user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier
documents. Scientific Information (ISI) introduced the first
citation index for papers published in academic journals..
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Web of Science Cited Reference Search Scopus
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An index that quantifies both the actual scientific
productivity and the apparent scientific impact of a scientist. An
alternative to total citations which can be disproportionately
affected by a few very highly cited papers. Calculating: a h-index
of 20 means the researcher has 20 papers each of which has been
cited 20+ times.
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Benefits o Covers a wider range of sources, (especially
conferences, technical reports and eprints). o Easier to calculate
some of the less proprietary data thus more innovation) o Free
Disadvantages o May be considered a less authoritative than Web of
Science o More difficult to search where there are multiple authors
with the same family name & initials limited options to refine
Sources: Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar Using Google
Scholar
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Reasons : Demonstrating the research capacity of an institution
Data provision for accreditation (institutional, departmental) Show
excellence for grant applications Higher education rankings: The
Times Higher Education
http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-
university-rankings/2009/results Shanghai rangsor
http://www.arwu.org/ Webometrics http://www.webometrics.info/
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Emereging problems in scholarly communication: copyright issues
scholars should retain more control over the ownership of their own
publications crisis of scholarly communication increasing
subscription prices are affecting access and services technical
problems: increasing digital gap
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22 C ONTENT A UTHOR Visibility Q UALITY ASSURANCES Visibility L
ECTOR E DITOR P UBLISHER Individual subscriber Library users
Subscription fee Q UALITY INFRORMATION
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23 Transactions OPEN ACCESS KIAD OPEN CHOICE OPTIONAL OPEN
ARTICLE C ONTENT A UTHOR Visibility Q UALITY A SSURANCE Visibility
L ECTOR E DITOR P UBLISHER Individual subscriber Library users
Subscription fee R EADER Article processing fee Q UALITY
INFORMATION
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Open Access stands for unrestricted access and unrestricted
reuse Objectives: Ensuring access Increasing visbility Accelerating
discovery
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Two primary ways of open access publishing: 1.Gold OA Authors
publish in an open access journal that provides immediate OA to all
of its articles on the publisher's website 2. Green OA Authors
publish in any journal and then self-archive a version of the
article for free public use in an institutional repository or a
personal website.
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Archives of digital or digitized documents A repository
established by a particular university or other research
institution is known as an institutional repository. A repository
established to collect and preserve material in a particular
discipline or subject is called a disciplinary repository or
subject repository. Tasks: collecting, providing access,
archiving
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arXiv (1991) - physics, mathmetics, information sciences, 700
000 PubMedCentral - medical ~ 2.2 milli RePEc - economics ~ 1 milli
SSOAR social sciences > 18 000 CogPrints - psychology, biology
~4 000
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The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by
providing timely information about the growth and status of
repositories throughout the world.