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Pampel, Heinz. "Universitätsverlage im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wissenschaft und Literaturversorgung. Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme." Thesis, Fachhochschulverlag Frankfurt am Main. Zugl.: Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart, Diplomarbeit, 2006, 2007. http://eprints.rclis.org/9590/1/pampel.pdf.
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Departing from the serials crisis, this paper seeks to point out the areas of conflict, which are dominated by three principal agents: the scientific community, publishing
houses and libraries. In order to facilitate interaction between these agents the open access movement has been formed, which receives considerable support from the librarianship. Abutted to the Anglo-American university presses, it has been postulated in the scientific community that German universities engage in publishing activities too. The focal point of this work is - apart from an assessment of the current situation and an overview of the Anglo-American university presses - a critical account of the German university press. On the basis of qualitative interviews different publishing houses are critically assessed in terms of their services offered. In a short excursus this paper describes subject-related publishing activities in the context of the open access movement. In conclusion this paper will expound the problems of German university presses – and formulate an outlook as to what may be the future course of the industry.
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Costa, Sely Maria de Souza. "The impact of computer usage on scholarly communication amongst academic social scientists." Thesis, reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 1999. http://eprints.rclis.org/11724/1/tese_sely_completa.pdf.
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The study aims to see whether there are differences in the nature and patterns of computer usage for communicating research between disciplines in the social sciences in Brazil and, if so, whether they can be related to factors which can affect the process of communication. The theory embedded in the research model states that pressures
that accompany the introduction of information technologies into a university environment are significant factors in the use of such technologies. These pressures
produce differences in the communication process itself. Furthermore, there may also be a relationship between individual factors and the use of IT for communication.
The research data were collected via a survey using two instruments. Firstly, mailed questionnaires were sent to 760 academic researchers in sociology and economics in
Brazil, working in post-graduate programmes. A response rate of 64.1 percent was achieved. Secondly, 36 interviews were carried out with a sample of the most productive researchers in the two subjects studied. The interview sample included both respondents and non-respondents to the questionnaire. A small sample of 11 British academic researchers was included in the interview survey, in order to allow comparisons and see whether Brazilian academics lag behind IT front-runners. Data collected revealed that there is an impact of computer usage on the scholarly
communication process, especially in terms of informal communication. Such an impact can be related to changes in the social interactions that underlie knowledge creation among researchers, and also relates to differences in patterns and processes of computer usage between the chosen disciplines. Formal communication has experienced a gradually growing impact by electronic media on the well-established print environment, with the likely co-existence of the two media for some time to come. The results obtained showed that Brazilian researchers do not lag behind the British ones. Not many differences, but most similarities were found between economists and sociologists in both Brazil and the UK.
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Soto, Arley. "Digital preservation of scientific e-journals: Colombian case study." Thesis, 2015. http://eprints.rclis.org/31910/1/Soto_Arley_LMTHESIS_FINAL_OK.pdf.
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Largest publishers and biggest libraries around the world have treated the long-term preservation of scientific e
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Turnovsky, Petra. "Die Open Access – Bewegung und ihre Rezeption an wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken in Österreich." Thesis, 2004. http://eprints.rclis.org/6270/1/thesis_turnovsky.pdf.
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As a reaction to the serials crisis a movement has formed, which aims at open and charge free access to scientific literature in the internet. Open Access can be achieved by selfarchiving or by open access journals, which are financed by author payments. This master thesis provides a survey about the current state of the art of the movement, about the different conditions in the scientific disciplines and the networked initiatives. The situation is considered from the libraries’ point of view, focusing on science libraries in Austria. The instruments for retrieval were identified as a week point. An additional obstacle for Open Access is the importance of the citation rate when scientific publications are evaluated. Due to the installation of e-print-servers a new assignment for libraries has developed.
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Ruiz-Perez, Sergio. "La edición de revistas científicas en acceso abierto: características editoriales y modelos de negocio en el contexto del Proyecto SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing)." Thesis, 2010. http://eprints.rclis.org/14951/1/MasterThesis-SergioRuiz.pdf.
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Editorial aspects of Open Access scientific journals are analyzed. Business models in these types of publications are also examined.
A 2,838 journals sample from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is analyzed. Editors, subject, commercial interest, business models, copyright policies and impact factor are studied in detail.
This work has been carried out in the context of the SOAP Project (Study of Open Access Publishing), financed by the European funded by the European Commission under FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme), running from March 2009 to February 2011.
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Zan, Burcu Umut. "Derme Olgusu ve Elektronik Yayınlar." Thesis, 2006. http://eprints.rclis.org/9281/1/burcu_umut_zan_tez.pdf.pdf.
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The most important and true function of deposition practices making a contribution to knowledge sharing at uppermost level is to make it possible to present philosophy and art productions of the country by depositing to the advantage of the researches of present and future generation. But, deposition practices dated back ancient times don’t include electronic publication types occurred by the development of information technology. However, in our present day, most of the philosophy and art productions are produced and used in electronic medium. It is necessary to include electronic publications in legal deposit and to deposit in a legal dimension in order to ensure registered cultural productions to be deposited completely.
Because electronic publications have differences in comparison to printed ones, it is impossible for electronic publications to be deposited by antedated legal deposits. These differences cause methods and techniques different from printed ones to be used for electronic publications at the ranks of acquisition, preservation and serving that form the process of deposition. Electronic publications are evaluated in two categories as online and offline.
Because offline electronic publications have physical transporters, they resemble to printed ones. However, online publications’ being different regarding their structural features make it difficult for them to be included in deposition process of online publications. The countries considering online publications as a part of cultural existence start leading project enterprises for the deposition of online publications in order to see the problems that will be come across in the deposition of electronic publications and responsible units clearly. When these developments have being occurred in the deposition of electronic publications at international level, deposition practices cannot be performed sufficiently in our country. The reason for this is to try to perform legal deposit providing only printed publications dated in 1934 to be deposited. However, all the online and offline electronic publications as well as printed publications form a part of cultural existence belonging to our country. Consequently, it is necessary to take measures in this sense without allowing waste of much more time.
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Castelli, Marta C. "Requisitos Profesionales del Bibliotecario en Área de Salud : Análisis en Mar del Plata." Thesis, 2007. http://eprints.rclis.org/20645/3/Tesina_Castelli.pdf.
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The scientific documentation looms, together with access to information and management of their tools is fundamental in the training and development of professionals that enable scientific and technological progress. Particularly in the health sciences and medicine precisely this development is one of the most remarkable, considering the medical documentation the most complex of all. The highly computerized technological equipment and diagnostic techniques applied in the development of this discipline makes the accumulation of this information and run forward at high speed, requiring an information technology supports this development. Another reason is that doctors do not have the time to search, access, and read as much information circulating, not to have the resources and skills to track, making the documentary and the protagonists informationists direct access and selection information.
This is why the demands and requirements of the Librarian Specialized Health Medicine area must be consistent with the requirements and demands of the discipline.
It examines how the documentary preparation have when entering the workforce specialized in medicine and the difficulties faced when it comes to search, select and retrieve this type of information, to provide its users an accurate document, according to the professional requirements requested.
Mastering English, managing databases, medical vocabulary, knowledge of anatomy, and highly specific subject of the documentary require preparation and specialized academic training. Whereas to enter the labor market does not have these essential tools for good performance, higher education should be largely to provide an academic level commensurate with the needs of librarians.
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Termens, Miquel. "La cooperació bibliotecària en l'era digital. Consorcis i adquisicions de revistes a les biblioteques universitàries catalanes." Thesis, 2007. http://eprints.rclis.org/10813/1/Tesi-MTermens.pdf.
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The appearance of electronic journals as a new media has transformed academic publishing and the services offered by university libraries. The big publishing houses have tackled the change from paper-based scientific journal publishing to electronic formats by introducing a new marketing model: substituting traditional title-by-title subscriptions to a system of subscribing to licence packages, known as the "Big Deal". In answer to this, the libraries have joined forces to negotiate better terms for the joint acquisition of electronic content.
In the case of the University Library Consortium of Catalonia (CBUC), analysis has been carried out of the use of electronic journals to which libraries have subscribed.
Based on the usage statistics supplied by the publishers, analysis was conducted on the use of subscription to seven electronic journals packages (American Chemical Society (ACS), American Institute of Physics (AIP), Blackwell, Elsevier, Emerald, Springer and Wiley) amongst the seven universities that made up the CBUC –Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Universidad de Girona (UDG), Universitat de Lleida (UDL) and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)– in 2005.
The results showed that the universities, regardless of their size, had different levels of use of the journals. The results also showed differences between different scientific fields. These differences in use were referenced against each university's collection of back issues and with the institution's research activity. It was also seen that journals that were not previously subscribed to showed very low levels of use.
Finally, the analysis showed that the level of use of a scientific journals can serve as an indicator of the research a university carries out and for its own evaluation purposes. Use can be taken into account when distributing the cost of subscribing to electronic journals.
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Fernández, Gladys Vanesa. "Análisis de las características y los modos de publicación de la revista de Acceso Abierto (Open Access) PLoS Biology y de su presencia en la Web of Science y SCOPUS, durante el período 2003-2007." Thesis, 2009. http://eprints.rclis.org/19097/1/FernandezG_tesislic_2009.pdf.
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Electronic publications have allowed the exchange of scientific documentation and access increasingly faster and potentially easy to scientific knowledge. This has generated another way of understanding scientific communication. Open Access (Open Access) 1 is one of those forms of expression linked science initiatives or projects that promote access favorezcen and open, free and unrestricted access to the papers published by the scientific community. The OA has become in a short time, an alternative option for the publication and dissemination of research results international scientific community. This medium offers many advantages over the traditional system of scientific publication in journals kept by commercial publishers, providing a channel for the publication of research results: faster, because it favors the immediate visibility of publications; cheaper, because it allows universities and research centers have access to more sources, more complete, because it can, not only query results but also the data on which they were based, and transparent, because it allows institutions of a better way to control the results of their research. The OA has generated significant discussion and action nuclei around institutional and financial support to open access publications on the Internet. The concept of "Open Access" not only has to do with accessibility to scientific literature, but also with the idea of eliminating the requirement to transfer the copyright of the published articles, which facilitates greater and more rapid international dissemination. From this concept increasingly common, there are many initiatives with the premise of providing access to scientific publications electronically. Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a publisher of open access different scientific journals, all with a license that your articles can be reproduced, distributed and transformed to create new works even commercially. Access to the articles is free and therefore requires no subscription, but the economic model on which is to pay to publish. The first journal that published the publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS) PLoS Biology was in October 2003, from this year onwards the publication has shown a remarkable growth equated with other scientific publications with great experience in the area
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Fresco-Santalla, Ana. "Edición y comunicación científica: evolución y tendencias actuales." Thesis, 2013. http://eprints.rclis.org/24471/1/Scholarly_comm_and_publishing_Evolution_and_Trends_AFresco.pdf.
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The development of digital technologies has brought about great transformations on the scientific communication system. The traditional stagnation that has characterized the scholarly publishing process for centuries has now given way to a more dynamic and open system, which does not remain oblivious to the current context. The transformations undergone throughout this process go beyond the digital edition. Such changes, mediated to a greater or lesser extent by the spirit of the Web 2.0 or Social Web, encompass both novel publishing models as well as original methods of peer review and new scientific impact indicators. This study provides a descriptive analysis regarding the recent evolution of the scientific communication system, focusing on the aforementioned aspects. At the same time, a statistical analysis showing the degree of adoption of social technologies by scientific journals and the prevailing tools at article level has also been carried out. The results suggest the existence of differences regarding the publisher typology, while the scientific area and the quartiles are not –a priori and in the absence of a deeper study– decisive elements.
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Manco-Vega, Alejandra. "Early career researchers and PhD students from the social sciences use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for science communication: an affordances approach." Thesis, 2017. http://eprints.rclis.org/31922/1/Early%20career%20researchers%20and%20PhD%20students%20from%20the%20social%20sciences%20use%20of%20Social%20Networking%20Sites%20%28SNS%29%20for%20science%20communication.pdf.
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This research aims to understand the different practices and strategies early career researchers and PhD students from the social sciences have in Social Networking Sites (SNSs) for science communication in one particular country: Brazil. Following this purpose, the central research question is which are the motives and rationale of the researchers for using social networking sites for science communication. Two sub-questions arise from this general research question: How do practices and strategies relate to the academic system of this country? And How do the traditional science communication practices translate into the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS)? This research is empirically oriented building up on case studies in Brazil. This study makes use of the adaptation that Van Dijck (2013) made of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and the review of affordances of social media platforms (Bucher & Helmond, 2016) to apply it to the study of social media as the theoretical approach. The methodological approach of this research is qualitative, using both interviews and netnography as research methods.
The primary motivations for using different Social Networking Sites are all related to connectivity: communication with peers, to the public and research subjects, updating themselves about their research issue, dissemination of research, availability of papers, self-branding and participation in interest groups are the most mentioned. These motivations translate into cross-posting practices and integrated communication strategies -combining online and offline elements- on the different Social Networking Sites. These motivations translate into perceived affordances all related to social affordances, therefore, social capital processes: availability, scalability, visibility and multimediality. The academic system of the country has remained unchanged as it privileges traditional scholarly academic formats; therefore, early career researchers and PhD students from the social sciences only use the different Social Networking Sites (SNS) as a side aid but not as a primary means of communication. Social media is underused as a means of public science communication, even though these platforms offer a lot of advantages for pursuing such issue. Traditional science communication practices translate into the use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs). The most important issue that came out in this report was the fact that social affordances provided by Social Networking (SNSs) are still required to be endorsed by real life meeting to start further collaboration and the fact that English is the preferred language for such issues.
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Alhuay-Quispe, Joel. "Calidad editorial, impacto científico y visibilidad web de las revistas científicas de universidades peruanas." Thesis, 2020. http://eprints.rclis.org/40123/1/2020_Alhuay_Calidad-editorial-impacto-cientifico-visibilidad-web-revistas-cient%C3%ADficas-universidades-peruanas.pdf.
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Dynamization processes and channels of scientific communication is materialized in emergence on mechanisms to systems evaluation and qualification based on results of research and their producers of scientific information. In this study, the magnitude of compliance with certain quality standards in Peruvian scientific journals is determined, and a distinction is made with indicators for measuring scientific impact and web visibility according to the type of university and presence of journal in evaluation plattforms and indexes. Approach of bibliometric and cybermetric analysis is used, using scientific journals as units of analysis selected by their country of publication: Peru, and registered in the most known regional systems of evaluation and classification of journals. Among the results found, it is worth mentioning that the majority of Peruvian journals (53%) meet 29 criteria or less of editorial quality; as for H-index, highest proportion corresponds to journals with an H-index equal to or less than 3 (59%); also, in terms of web visibility, the results are much lower than expected: only three out of five articles are found in the academic web.
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Delhaye, Marlene. "ERM is good for you : Pistes de réflexion pour l’acquisition d’un outil de gestion des ressources électroniques dans un cadre interuniversitaire." Thesis, 2008. http://eprints.rclis.org/12577/1/pppdelhaye.pdf.
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A short description of the context is followed by the definition of what en ERM is and what is can be used for. A review of the existing software is provided, as well as several scenarios for the implementation of an ERM solution for the 3 universities' libraries.
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Borges, Claudia de Oliveira. "A importância dos periódicos de acesso aberto para o desenvolvimento da ciência e tecnologia do país." Thesis, 2010. http://eprints.rclis.org/14653/1/CLAUDIA_DE_OLIVEIRA_BORGES-E-LIS.pdf.
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This is about the importance of open access journals to the advancement of science and technology in this country. It presents definition, purpose and evolution of Brazilian scientific journals. It demonstrates through literature review how investments applied in human resources and research (input) and in scientific journals (output) over the years were important for the strengthening of Brazilian scientific journals. It shows the evolution of Brazilian scientific journal in the international arena by means of quantitative data collected in the Qualis system and citation indexes of ISI in a sample of 31 journals. It displays the increased number of Brazilian scientific journals indexed in the ISI and the gradual evolution of the impact factor. It discusses the need to publish the results of research in open access journals as a way to speed the process of disseminating information, increasing the visibility of scientific production and return on public investment for society.
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Flórez, Mazo Carlos Esteban. "Buenas prácticas editoriales de revistas de Ciencias Sociales de acceso abierto en América Latina." Thesis, 2017. http://eprints.rclis.org/32667/1/Buenas%20pr%C3%A1cticas%20editoriales%20de%20revistas...%20Monograf%C3%ADa.pdf.
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More than three centuries after the creation of the first scientific journal this type of publications are the means par excellence to spread and disseminate avant-garde knowledge, allowing the propagation of the theoretical and empirical advances of science. With the emergence of the Internet, journals have found in the open access movement a paradigm that since the 1990s has significantly altered scientific communication, allowing a worldwide and simultaneous reach for all types of audiences. Curiously, Latin America is the region with the greatest growth in open access, therefore, delineating good editorial practices in the context of the twenty-first century is fundamental for the social, cultural and scientific advance, and so that the editors of the region manage better journals and increase the quality and impact of these.
Based on a comparative study of ten journals included in the Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ, SciELO, Redalyc, Latindex, Biblat, and Redib databases, the criteria and policies that can guarantee optimal editorial management facing the international positioning of Social Sciences journals in open access in Latin America are delineated, and compliance with these criteria is verified in each of the selected journals.
After analyzing the data, it is concluded that open access is a fundamental component of this type of publications in the region and that their editorial process do not deviate from international standards, despite the low professionalization and specialized training of directors and editors, hence, their visibility and impact depend on additional variables that do not categorically determine the scientific quality of the journals. With this in mind, a guide of good editorial practices for Social Sciences journals in open access in Latin America is proposed, so that both publishers and publishing institutions can comprehensively and appropriately address the editorial processes, in an effort to contribute to the quality of the journals in the region.
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Das, Anup Kumar. "An Evaluative Study of Some Selected Libraries in India Undergoing the Process of Digitization." Thesis, 2008. http://eprints.rclis.org/22918/1/Anup_thesis.pdf.
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Digitization of collections enables wide dissemination of content from our documentary heritage and increases access to rare documents and current research literature in library collections. Indian digitization initiatives have produced a vast amount of digitized documents. They are made accessible through intranets or Internet channels. However, maintaining an Internet-based online digital library system has several problems such as availability of web server for 24X7 timeframe, robust broadband connectivity, efficient retrieval engine, ownership of digitized documents, etc. This study address such issues affecting Indian initiatives. It also documents the digitization and digital preservation practices by many national and institutional initiatives. The study gives special reference to India’s largest digitization initiatives – Digital Library of India, theses and dissertations in universities, heritage items of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, National Mission for Manuscripts, and digitization of Indian journal collections. The study found that many Indian institutions have established a defined path of capacity, competency and capability development in digitization of documentary heritage. They have secured support from concerned stakeholders, parent bodies and various funding agencies. While multi-stakeholder participation is secured in digitization projects, self-sustainability of the project was also ensured. Every information system project has a life cycle. After completion of digitization project and establishment of an online or intranet-based retrieval system, normally digitization work gets discontinued. Information retrieval system needs to be continued to achieve project goals and objectives, and to serve the target audiences on long-term basis. Institutional support is also necessary for self-sustainability of such projects. Open Access to knowledge and information proves to be an efficient diffusion model for scholarly literature. Study observed that some Indian projects have established Open Access repositories at institutional or national level for worldwide dissemination of information. These repositories enhance international visibility of India’s research output
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Tarlan, Mine. "Türkiye'de Akademik Tıp Kütüphanelerinde Kullanılan Elektronik Kaynakların Analizi." Thesis, 2005. http://eprints.rclis.org/6468/1/mine_tarlan_yuksek_lisans_tezi_tamami.pdf.
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This research is composed of, the history and the definitions of medical libraries as well as the variations and the definitions of the electronic resources that used in academic medical libraries. Regarding the research a survey has been applied to the libriaries which belong to the medical faculties throughout the country's state and private universities. In this survey under the following headlines data is obtained; variations of e-resources that used, library staff's background, published document's status, which e-resources mostly preferred and which qualifications of e-resources mostly stressed in making the preferance. After having the survey results, the outcome of the survey has been evaluated and inferences drawn. Following the first survey one year later second successive survey has been applied, recent results of the second survey has been comparetively evaluated and additional inferences drawn regarding the changes occured within one year.
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Besimoğlu, Can. "Akademisyenlerin Elektronik Dergi Kullanımında Disiplinler Arasındaki Fark." Thesis, 2007. http://eprints.rclis.org/10576/1/Besimo.pdf.
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Electronic journals are the most efficient scholar communication tools for academicians searching, keeping up with current affairs and publication of their works. Scientific journals are published in the 17th century for the first time. It is seen that the publishing of electronic journals is formed with technological developments in the 1990’s. Projects of many universities and professional groups begin to attribute publising of electronic journals. With the effect of open access electronic publishing begins to gain a different dimension
These developments cause many researches on electronic journals. However, studies upon the features of electronic journals and usage causes affecting them are few. It is seen that especially with the development of the electronic journal publishing, studies on users in this subject began to increase. But still, there is not a study which aims to use the sources of different academicians from different disciplines.
So our research aims to show the place of electronic journals in communication, the development of these sources up untill today and the effects of differences among disciplines on use of electronic journals. Furthermore, the findings which we obtain are compared with similar studies in literature. In this respect, the hypothesis of our research is as follows: “The academicians use of e-journals varies depending on
-the discipline they are associated with,
-the knowledge and experiments of the users and
-the local factors.”
In our research, literature survey, survey and interview techniques have been used. While the capacity of universe is 1428 academicians, sampling is made up of 249 persons. Sampling is divided into four disciplines which are science , engineering, social science and humanities.
As a result of our study, it is seen that there are similarities and differences in the features of Ankara University academicians usage of electronic journals. It is found that engineers and sciencists use e-journals more excessively when compared to other disciplines. The human scientists are observed to be the group of academicians who use e-journals least. User preference in scientific journals, their attitutes towards the weak and strong sides of journals, their knowledge about open access, the states of benefiting from open access sources and the things which they pay attention while publishing an article change according to the discipline which they are associated with.
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Alemu, Getaneh. "The role of open access in fostering knowledge sharing and collaboration in Ethiopia: a case study." Thesis, 2012. http://eprints.rclis.org/16555/1/The%20Role%20of%20Open%20Access%20in%20Fostering%20Knowledge%20Sharing%20and%20Collaboration.pdf.
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This study adopts a qualitative approach and uses the case study method. Fourteen researchers and librarians were interviewed in four organizations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The responses based on the semi-structured interviews provide information about the current status of scholarly communication, the awareness of researchers and librarians about open access and the actual and potential challenges in implementing open access strategies in Ethiopia. This research is believed to illuminate the practicalities and procedures of how open access scholarly communication models could foster and support knowledge sharing and collaboration among Ethiopian researchers.
The results of the study show that Ethiopian researchers suffer from lack of adequate access to scholarly literature. There is also lack of scholarly communication outlets to publish and disseminate their research results. This study reveals that the current scholarly communication system in Ethiopia is faced with technological and social challenges. Open access is proposed as a viable alternative for Ethiopia. The research indicates that if Ethiopian universities and research institutions adopt open access policies and strategies, it would help them improve the access and dissemination of scientific research results. A concerted effort is required from administrators, librarians, researchers, funding agencies and government to implement and fully harness open access in Ethiopia.
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Alosi, Benedetta. "Dalla crisi della comunicazione scientifica alle strategie Open Access: nuovi modelli di circolazione del sapere." Thesis, 2005. http://eprints.rclis.org/6740/1/AlosiOA2005.pdf.
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The "serial pricing crisis" that has hit the Scholarly Communication system generated a great deal of initiatives and projects designed to transform radically the ways in which knowledge circulates. The first reaction to this crisis was new forms of cooperation between libraries which led to the creation of consortia for the shared purchasing of electronic resources. The academic community, resorting to sustainable electronic Publishing and Open Access to scientific literature, then sought new channels of communication able to satisfy the demand for widespread and rapid circulation of ideas and research findings. Open models of scientific communication achieved by the two strategies of "Open Access Publishing" and "Open Access Self-Archiving" represent an innovative approach that is capable of guaranteeing the dissemination of research literature. Some Open Access Journals, a new generation of freely accessible electronic periodicals, are already acclaimed. However, the affordability of their business model and their financial and other repercussions has generated a lively debate that still rages within the international community involved in the evolution of new models of Scholarly Communication.
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Rodríguez-Yunta, Luis. "Ciencia y Documentación en español en el espacio virtual iberoamericano : Rol de las revistas científicas y desarrollo de nuevos productos electrónicos de información bibliográfica." Thesis, 2010. http://eprints.rclis.org/15402/1/Tesis_LuisRodriguezYunta.pdf.
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The thesis analyzes the role taken by both scientific journals and bibliographic information products, in the new relations between Spain and Latin American. The combination of technological development with the promotion of cultural and scientific relations in the Iberoamerican Community of Nations, form a virtual space, which defines the framework of the study. The research methodology is based on both quantitative and qualitative techniques. Despite the growing importance of scientific and academic relations, there is considerable room for improvement to seek greater inter-Iberoamerican scientific community. Internet facilitates scientific cooperation and online higher education in their own language. The publication of scientific journals is a communication channel which can be enhanced scientific exchange further by the international contribution of Hispanic, Iberian and Latin American Studies. Documentary resources focused on the national and regional scientific publications, make a wide range of products. Iberoamerican coverage, encompassing the sources of Spain, Portugal and Latin America, is emerging in the design of new sources of scientific documentation, enhanced by the facilities for dissemination via Internet. In the production of different resources from literature in Spanish language, the thesis highlights the work of the UNAM in Mexico (especially CLASE and PERIODICA databases) and the CSIC in Spain (ISOC, ICYT and IME databases). It also analyzes the system Latindex, Virtual Health Library, SciELO, Redalyc and Dialnet. These products are compared, concluding that the major databases are complementary and therefore there are possibilities for cooperation. Scientific information systems are essential to build the target of a Iberoamerican Area of Knowledge.
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Ríos-Ramírez, Santiago. "Estudio de los criterios utilizados por los medios de comunicación del Ecuador en la selección de información (seguimiento diario Ecuador en vivo entre el 18 de noviembre y el 16 de diciembre de 2011)." Thesis, 2013. http://eprints.rclis.org/32297/1/R%C3%ADos%20Ramirez%20Santiago%20Israel.pdf.
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The current research conducted in traditional and digital media in Latin America, evidence that Ecuador, lacks content in terms of the application of the thematic agendas of the media and public opinion that is being generated in the country. In this sense, the present investigation is framed in the analysis of the criteria used by the digital newspaper ecuadorenvivo.com for the selection of the information it disseminates. Information was collected during 5 weeks, using the method of content analysis, applied in fact sheets that collect the most relevant points regarding the journalistic content of the news publications of a medium, in this specific case of digital type. For the analysis, the following variables were considered: origin of the information, nature of the sources and the protagonists, identification of the protagonists of the information, structure of the information and format of the news, treatment of the contents, focus, informational imbalances and the values that are transmitted. In the results of this investigation, the successes and shortcomings of the study medium are reflected, for a later analysis regarding the journalistic practice in Ecuador.
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Назаровець, Сергій. "Інфометрична діагностика потоку веб-публікацій українських бібліотекознавців." Thesis, 2014. http://eprints.rclis.org/23963/1/nazarovets_avtoreferat.pdf.
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The thesis represents research of theoretical and methodological basis for providing satisfactory infometrics analysis of the flow of Ukrainian web-based library and information science research articles. The origins and historical survey of the infometric technique is presented and the up-to-date infometric classification research methodologies is developed. As the result of the research, the necessity of multiple infometric diagnostic methods implementaton for better understanding of the scientific web communication status and efficiency in Ukrainian library science is developed.
The extent of open access web publications being used by library scientists is determined by webometrics monitoring and the structure and dynamics of libraran scientists` web publications is analysed. A conceptual model of infometric online diagnostics was developed to identify perspective directions of the online publications flow. Semantically this model is divided into multi-disciplinary, specialized and individual directions.
The importance of the theoretical and methodological foundations for enhancing the infometric diagnostics as the base for improving communication, representation of the Ukrainian library science professionals` scientific accomplishments in the global web, as well as the base for intensifying scientometric statistics and forming profound and high-quality web source in the field of library science and related disciplines, is pointed out.
Open access consolidated web source for library scientists with effective webometric tools for monitoring scholar activity of individual library professionals, academic institutions and others` research activities is used to ground new conceptual model of Ukrainian library scientists' online publications infometric diagnostics.
A number of management decisions and policies, as well as technical and technological factors that can intensify the level of open access movement by Ukrainian library scientists are pointed out.
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Chiang-Martín, Daisy. "Análisis de las citas en las tesis depositadas en la Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) durante el año 2011." Thesis, 2012. http://eprints.rclis.org/39552/1/dchiangTFM2012mem%C3%B2ria.pdf.
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The aim of this research is to detect different sources that researchers use most frequently in their doctoral theses and assess the local needs of library users.
Analysis citations in academic publications is a very interesting method when you need to know how the information is used by researchers. Bibliographical references of thesis can offer us a very detailed view of the use of the library collection. This method has been complemented with users opinion collected in a questionnaire. Combination of these two techniques has helped reduce the subjectivity inherent in data analysis.
The study shows that the authors of the doctoral theses cite almost in the same proportion both magazine articles and monographs. PhD's students at the University of Balearic island do not use much the library catalog but instead they use the Internet as a valuable source for writing their thesis.