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A survey of digital information literacy (DIL) among academic library and information professionals
The key purpose of this study is to explore digital information literacy (DIL) possessed by South Valley University (SVU) library and information professionals. It also tries to identify the various types of DIL and find constraints affecting the related skills … Continue reading
Big Deal : Should Universities Outsource More Core Research Infrastructure?
Research universities have developed in symbiosis with a robust set of commercial providers that serve their needs. From food service providers to run dining halls to private equity firms to manage parts of the endowment, outsourcing has allowed universities to … Continue reading
What Can Altmetric.com Tell Us About Policy Citations of Research? An Analysis of Altmetric.com Data for Research Articles from the University of Sheffield
There is a growing interest in using and analyzing altmetric data for quantifying the impact of research, especially societal impact (Bornmann, 2014, Thelwall et al., 2016, Haunschild and Bornmann, 2017). This study therefore aimed to explore the usefulness of Altmetric.com … Continue reading
IMLS Presents New Strategic Plan for 2018-2022 – Transforming Communities
The Institute of Museum and Library Services today released a new plan to guide the agency’s programs and services over the next five years. Transforming Communities, the IMLS Strategic Plan 2018-2022, frames how IMLS will advance, support, and empower America’s … Continue reading
Mapping the future of academic libraries
The report highlights a number of challenges and opportunities for SCONUL members, including the development of AI and machine learning, datafied scholarship and the on-going challenges of blurred boundaries between the library and the rest of the institutions and the … Continue reading
The concept of research impact pervades contemporary academic discourse – but what does it actually mean?
The concept of research impact pervades contemporary academic discourse. Its prominence can be viewed as part of an increasing demand for academic institutions and individual researchers to demonstrate the practice and policy implications of their work. Yet, despite its widespread … Continue reading
Singapore’s powerhouses neglect local intellectual life
Singaporeans deserve more local impact from their top-ranked public universities, says Cherian George. Read More
Transformative? Integrative? Troublesome? Undergraduate Student Reflections on Information Literacy Threshold Concepts
In this exploratory study the authors ask students enrolled in a credit-bearing undergraduate research methods course to rank and evaluate the troublesome, transformative, and integrative nature of the six frames currently comprising the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. … Continue reading
The secret lives of ebooks : A paratextual analysis illuminates a veil of usage statistics
The paratextual study leads to a closer investigation of the usage statistics themselves and concludes that despite industry standards, they are not calculated consistently across vendor platforms and that while these data are invisible to researchers outside of the library, … Continue reading
Ask The Chefs: What Are Your Predictions For Scholarly Communications in 2018?
There are so many related threads in the scholarly communications ecosystem that it’s difficult to see what might be knit together or unwound in the coming year. Some trends observed in the past may take giant steps forward, while others … Continue reading