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User studies and risks for research libraries?

July 8, 2013September 9, 2020 - by Jennifer Schaffner - 2 Comments.

This is the first in a series of posts that synthesize conclusions of published user studies about desires and needs for research support. I’ve collected quite a stack of them. …

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Measurement and Behaviors / Supporting Scholarship

OCLC Research 2011: “Seeking Synchronicity,” insights into virtual reference

December 22, 2011 - by Merrilee Proffitt

At the end of 2011, we are doing a mini series of blog postings to reflect on some of the year’s highpoints. This posting is the second in the series. …

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Libraries / Measurement and Behaviors / Modeling new services / Supporting Scholarship

National systems of research assessment and implications for libraries

December 22, 2009September 3, 2020 - by John MacColl

Research assessment is a very big deal in some countries. Countries whose university systems are largely publicly-funded routinely check up on the research quality of individual universities to ensure that …

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Libraries / Measurement and Behaviors / Modeling new services / Supporting Scholarship

Climate change for libraries

November 30, 2009September 3, 2020 - by John MacColl - 1 Comment

At the RLG Partnership Annual Meeting in 2007, Timothy Burke told the assembled research librarians ‘you have to figure out how to be hydraulic engineers of information flow rather than …

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Measurement and Behaviors / Supporting Scholarship

Mendeley scrobbles your papers

September 24, 2009September 24, 2009 - by John MacColl - 10 Comments.

Mendeley is a social web application for academic authors that has been receiving quite a lot of attention recently. Victor Keegan wrote about it in The Guardian last week, likening …

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Measurement and Behaviors / Research support

Journals and the tainting of science

August 21, 2009September 18, 2020 - by John MacColl - 1 Comment

The main feature article in last week’s Times Higher, A threat to scientific communication: do academic journals pose a threat to the advancement of science?, by Zoë Corbyn, examines the …

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Special collections and university rankings

August 6, 2009September 3, 2020 - by John MacColl - 1 Comment

The University of Leeds has made two prestigious acquisitions recently which have been deemed worthy of announcing from the university’s own news page. In early June, the university acquired the …

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Measurement and Behaviors

Things that happen elsewhere – user studies say

June 5, 2009October 12, 2020 - by Jim Michalko - 5 Comments.

OCLC Research just completed a symposium on user studies for the RLG Partnership. The symposium, Hearing Voices, was held at The Boston Public Library and had a good roster of …

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Collective Collections / Libraries / Measurement and Behaviors / Supporting Scholarship / Systemwide Organization

Impact Measures and Library Selection

May 14, 2009September 19, 2014 - by Constance Malpas

I have just been reading a recent article by Kathy Enger* published in Library & Information Science Research that examines the potential value of citation analysis as a selection tool …

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Measurement and Behaviors / Supporting Scholarship / Systemwide Organization

Efficiency and scholarly information practices

March 31, 2009September 19, 2014 - by Constance Malpas - 1 Comment

There is a good article* in the most recent issue of JASIS&T by a group of Canadian scholars who challenge James Evans’ controversial claim that the increase in online availability …

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