Category Archives for Scholarly Publishing & Impact
Finding Open Access Articles – Tools & Tips
This guide is meant to help individuals, of any background, search more easily for open access articles.[Read More]
“Can’t you just say Yes?” Answering Copyright Questions About Fair Use for Faculty Colleagues
More frequently academic librarians are being sought-out by faculty for assistance in answering copyright questions, and many of these questions are about how the fair use exception found in Section 107 of US copyright law can be utilized when making … Continue reading
Breakout Session: How Networking on Campus Can Increase Copyright Education. Presented by Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Director of Center for the Advancement of the Digital Scholarship (CADS), Kansas State University Library and Rachel Miles, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Kansas State University Library.
As online academic interactions continue to become more complex in the digital age, interaction with online copyrighted content inevitably increases. As a result, university faculty, researchers, students, and staff have a responsibility to understand how to legally reuse content to … Continue reading
Path analysis of the relationship between visibility and citation: the mediating roles of save, discussion, and recommendation metrics
This study aimed to assess the mediating role of save, discussion, and recommendation measures in the relationship between visibility and citation in biomedical articles in 2009–2013. Path analysis method was used to assess the causal relationships between the variables in … Continue reading
Beyond citations: Scholars’ visibility on the social Web
Traditionally, scholarly impact and visibility have been measured by counting publications and citations in the scholarly literature. However, increasingly scholars are also visible on the Web, establishing presences in a growing variety of social ecosystems. But how wide and established … Continue reading
Factors affecting number of citations: a comprehensive review of the literature
The majority of academic papers are scarcely cited while a few others are highly cited. A large number of studies indicate that there are many factors influencing the number of citations. An actual review is missing that provides a comprehensive … Continue reading
Blogging/Microblogging for enhancing the research accessibility
Scholarly blogs and Microblogs such as Twitter are increasingly attracting attention as new channels of science communication. Blogs and microblogging services like Twitter get your research seen by more nonacademics than your peer reviewed papers will ever be. The importance … Continue reading
Visibility and citation impact
The number of publications is the first criteria for assessing a researcher output. However, the main measurement for author productivity is the number of citations, and citations are typically related to the paper’s visibility. In this paper, the relationship between … Continue reading
The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing?
Scholarly publishing has changed considerably in recent years. Perhaps the biggest transformation is one we now take for granted – the move to digital. Publishing and scientific R&D are not the only industries to have witnessed the remarkable impact of … Continue reading
Copyright & Digital Scholarship
This workshop will provide an overview of fair use as it applies to digital projects. It will particularly benefit anyone planning, attempting to fund (via a grant), or currently managing a digital project that is aimed at providing access to … Continue reading