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(doi:10.1002/asi.20895) The authors use a novel method - the Author Affiliation Index - to determine whether faculty at the top 10 North American library and information science programmes have a disproportionate presence in the premier journals of the field. The study finds that these programmes may be both too small and too interdisciplinary for this measure to provide reliable results. Evans JA. Electronic publication and the narrowing of science and scholarship. Science 2008;321(5887):395–399. (doi:10.1126/science.1150473) Electronically available journals may portend an ironic change for science. As more journal issues come online, the articles referenced tend to be more recent, fewer journals and articles are cited, and more of the citations are to fewer journals and articles. Searching online is more efficient and following hyperlinks quickly puts researchers in touch with prevailing opinion, but this may accelerate consensus and narrow the range of findings and ideas that are built upon. Morgan P. Open data: the elephant in the room? Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries 2008;4(4):4–6. (www.eahil.net/journal/journal_2008_vol4_n4.pdf) Scientific research is based on data and the open access movement now incorporates the need for open access to research data, or Open Data. Research funding bodies are mandating the release and reuse of data, but small-scale research projects may lack the resources to implement Open Data management procedures. Libraries and institutional repositories, which have focused efforts on managing text resources rather than data, can help by collaborating with the research community. Norris M, Oppenheim C, Rowland F. Finding open access articles using Google, Google Scholar, OAIster and OpenDOAR. Online Information Review 2008;32(6):709–715. (doi:10.1108/14684520810923881) Shows the relative effectiveness of a range of search tools in finding open access versions of peer reviewed academic articles on the world wide web. For the moment at least, to find open access articles it is better to use the general search engines Google and Google Scholar rather than OpenDOAR or OAIster. Pinto M. Cyberabstracts: a portal on the subject of abstracting designed to improve information literacy skills. Journal of Information Science 2008;34(5):667–679. (doi:10.1177/0165551507086262) An academic portal specifically centered on abstracts and abstracting resources is proposed, with the aim of improving the information literacy skills of librarianship and information science students. The research to design it mainly consists of the selection, assessment, and web-display of the most relevant abstracts on knowledge management, information representation, natural language processing, abstract/abstracting, modeling the scientific document, information retrieval, and information evaluation. Lisée C, Larivière V, Archambault É. Conference proceedings as a source of scientific information: a bibliometric analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2008;59(11):1776–1784. (doi:10.1002/asi.20888) Examines the scientific impact and aging of conference proceedings compared to those of scientific literature in general. The relative importance of proceedings is diminishing over time, and that the scientific impact of proceedings is losing ground to other types of scientific literature in nearly all fields. Thus proceedings have a relatively limited scientific impact, their relative importance is shrinking, and they become obsolete faster than the scientific literature in general. © Copyright 2009 by European Association of Science Editors Top of Page |
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