Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2023.2235758
Ulia Gosart, Wend Wendland
ABSTRACTThe Director of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)’s Traditional Knowledge Division, Wend Wendland, shares his expertise in Indigenous Intellectual Property (IP) Rights. He introduces major IP instruments supporting Indigenous rights, and comments on significance of these instruments for the work of libraries and information professionals. He also shares current developments at WIPO that mark a major point in the history of IP policy and reflects on possible impact on these developments on Indigenous communities.KEYWORDS: Indigenous intellectual property rightstraditional knowledgeintellectual property Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. “Indigenous and Local Community Entrepreneurship,” World Intellectual Property Organization, https://www.wipo.int/tk/en/entrepreneurship/index.html (accessed October 17, 2022).2. “Protect and Promote Your Culture, A Practical Guide to Intellectual Property for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities,” World Intellectual Property Organization, last modified 2017, https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4195 (accessed October 17, 2022).3. Jane Anderson and Molly Torsen, “Intellectual Property and the Safeguarding of Traditional Cultures: Legal Issues and Practical Options for Museums, Libraries and Archives,” last modified 2012, https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/tk/1023/wipo_pub_1023.pdf (accessed October 17, 2022).4. Wend Wendland, “International Negotiations on Indigenous Knowledge to Resume at WIPO: A View of the Journey So Far and the Way Ahead,” WIPO Magazine, last modified February 2022, https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine_digital/en/2022/article_0001.html (accessed October 17, 2022).5. “Traditional Knowledge and Copyright: An Interview with Wend Wendland, Director of the WIPO Traditional Knowledge Division,” International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, last modified April 23, 2019, https://www.ifla.org/news/traditional-knowledge-and-copyright-an-interview-with-wend-wendland-director-of-the-wipo-traditional-knowledge-division/ (accessed October 17, 2022).6. “WIPO Visits the Ethnographic Museum of Geneva,” World Intellectual Property Organization, last modified July 2, 2021, https://www.wipo.int/tk/en/news/tk/2021/news_0015.html (accessed October 17, 2022).7. See the guide referenced in the Note 3.
世界知识产权组织(WIPO)传统知识司司长Wendland分享了他在土著知识产权(IP)权利方面的专业知识。他介绍了支持土著权利的主要知识产权文书，并评论了这些文书对图书馆和信息专业人员工作的重要性。他还分享了标志着知识产权政策历史上一个重要时刻的WIPO当前事态发展，并反思了这些事态发展对土著社区可能产生的影响。关键词:本土知识产权传统知识产权披露声明作者未发现潜在的利益冲突。“土著和地方社区创业”，世界知识产权组织，https://www.wipo.int/tk/en/entrepreneurship/index.html(访问日期:2022年10月17日)。2 .《保护和促进你的文化:土著人民和地方社区知识产权实用指南》，世界知识产权组织，2017年最后一次修改，https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4195(访问日期:2022年10月17日)。3. Jane Anderson和Molly Torsen，“知识产权和传统文化的保护:博物馆、图书馆和档案馆的法律问题和实际选择”，最近修改于2012年，https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/tk/1023/wipo_pub_1023.pdf(访问时间为2022年10月17日)。5. Wend Wendland，“关于土著知识的国际谈判将在WIPO恢复:对迄今为止的旅程和未来道路的看法”，WIPO杂志，最后一次修改于2022年2月，https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine_digital/en/2022/article_0001.html(访问于2022年10月17日)。5 .《传统知识与版权:对WIPO传统知识司司长温德·温德兰的专访》，国际图书馆协会和机构联合会，上次修改于2019年4月23日，https://www.ifla.org/news/traditional-knowledge-and-copyright-an-interview-with-wend-wendland-director-of-the-wipo-traditional-knowledge-division/(访问于2022年10月17日)。7.“WIPO参观日内瓦民族志博物馆”，世界知识产权组织，最后一次修改于2021年7月2日，https://www.wipo.int/tk/en/news/tk/2021/news_0015.html(访问于2022年10月17日)。参见注3中引用的指南。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2023.2245843
Grace Pickering
ABSTRACTThe following article analyzes the current wave of book bans in the United States of America. Book banning has a long history; the modern predominant focus on young people's reading materials grew around fifty years ago with the increased publication of realistic depictions of the lived experiences, identities, and personhoods of children and young people. Nonetheless, the current form of censorship is different: bigger, more politicized, and more targeted at those living with marginalized identities, particularly people of color and those with LGBTQ+ identities. This article argues that book banning places a unique burden on adolescent development and is particularly harmful to those living with marginalized identities.KEYWORDS: Book banscensorshiplibrariesadolescent developmentmarginalized communitiesschool librariesinequality in publishing AcknowledgmentsThis article was originally written for the course INFO-601: Foundations Information, taught by Dr. Irene Lopatovska at the Pratt Institute School of Information in New York City. The author thanks Dr. Lopatovska for her encouragement, enthusiasm, and insight; the author also thanks librarians serving children and fighting censorship everywhere.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. PEN America, “Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Ban Books,” September 19, 2022, https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/.2. OIF, ALA, “Challenge Support,” Text, Tools, Publications & Resources, December 8, 2016, https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport; See note 1 above.3. Anne Lyon Haight, Banned Books: Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons at Various Times and in Various Places, 3rd ed. (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1970), 3, 52, 64, 69, 74, 109; Wayne A. Wiegand, Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library (Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 86–87, 106–7, 147, 169–72. The Office on Intellectual Freedom (OIF) was created in 1967.4. Britannica Academic, “History of Publishing,” https://academic-eb-com.ezproxy.pratt.edu/levels/collegiate/article/history-of-publishing/109461 (accessed April 12, 2023); National Center for Education Statistics, “National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL),” (National Center for Education Statistics, 1993), https://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp#:~:text=However%2C%20in%20the%20late%2019th,percent%20of%20blacks%20remained%20illiterate.5. Wiegand, Part of Our Lives, 139.6. Trisha Tucker, “Dangerous Reading: How Socially Constructed Narratives of Childhood Shape Perspectives on Book Banning,” Public Library Quarterly (July 3, 2023): 4–5, https://doi.org/10.1080/01616846.2023.2232289; Mark I. West, Trust Your Children: Voices against Censorship in Children's Literature, 2nd ed. (New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1997), 18.7. West, Trust Your Children, vii–viii, 44–45.8. Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Lynne McKechnie, and Paulette
{"title":"<i>“Harmful to Minors”</i> : How Book Bans Hurt Adolescent Development","authors":"Grace Pickering","doi":"10.1080/0361526x.2023.2245843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526x.2023.2245843","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe following article analyzes the current wave of book bans in the United States of America. Book banning has a long history; the modern predominant focus on young people's reading materials grew around fifty years ago with the increased publication of realistic depictions of the lived experiences, identities, and personhoods of children and young people. Nonetheless, the current form of censorship is different: bigger, more politicized, and more targeted at those living with marginalized identities, particularly people of color and those with LGBTQ+ identities. This article argues that book banning places a unique burden on adolescent development and is particularly harmful to those living with marginalized identities.KEYWORDS: Book banscensorshiplibrariesadolescent developmentmarginalized communitiesschool librariesinequality in publishing AcknowledgmentsThis article was originally written for the course INFO-601: Foundations Information, taught by Dr. Irene Lopatovska at the Pratt Institute School of Information in New York City. The author thanks Dr. Lopatovska for her encouragement, enthusiasm, and insight; the author also thanks librarians serving children and fighting censorship everywhere.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. PEN America, “Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Ban Books,” September 19, 2022, https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/.2. OIF, ALA, “Challenge Support,” Text, Tools, Publications & Resources, December 8, 2016, https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport; See note 1 above.3. Anne Lyon Haight, Banned Books: Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons at Various Times and in Various Places, 3rd ed. (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1970), 3, 52, 64, 69, 74, 109; Wayne A. Wiegand, Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library (Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 86–87, 106–7, 147, 169–72. The Office on Intellectual Freedom (OIF) was created in 1967.4. Britannica Academic, “History of Publishing,” https://academic-eb-com.ezproxy.pratt.edu/levels/collegiate/article/history-of-publishing/109461 (accessed April 12, 2023); National Center for Education Statistics, “National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL),” (National Center for Education Statistics, 1993), https://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp#:~:text=However%2C%20in%20the%20late%2019th,percent%20of%20blacks%20remained%20illiterate.5. Wiegand, Part of Our Lives, 139.6. Trisha Tucker, “Dangerous Reading: How Socially Constructed Narratives of Childhood Shape Perspectives on Book Banning,” Public Library Quarterly (July 3, 2023): 4–5, https://doi.org/10.1080/01616846.2023.2232289; Mark I. West, Trust Your Children: Voices against Censorship in Children's Literature, 2nd ed. (New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1997), 18.7. West, Trust Your Children, vii–viii, 44–45.8. Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Lynne McKechnie, and Paulette","PeriodicalId":39557,"journal":{"name":"Serials Librarian","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135535426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2023.2245862
Zoë Abbie Teel
ABSTRACTThis article delves into the complex and inseparable relationship between collection development in libraries and the interconnected factors of privacy, censorship, and government influence. Libraries, as guardians of information and knowledge, constantly strive to update their collections to meet the diverse needs of patrons. However, in doing so, they face intricate challenges that extend beyond merely acquiring materials. This article aims to shed light on the pivotal role librarians play in collection development. It highlights the need for librarians to consider a wide range of factors, both internal and external, before making informed decisions about their collections. By understanding the multifaceted nature of their responsibilities, librarians can better serve their communities and maintain libraries as vital centers for knowledge dissemination. This article ultimately offers insights that can contribute to the enhancement of collection development practices, ensuring libraries remain adaptive, inclusive, and conducive to the pursuit of knowledge in an ever-changing world.KEYWORDS: Privacy in librariescensorshiplegislationintellectual freedomacademic freedom AcknowledgmentsThis article was originally written for INFO5400: Information Resources Development. The author thanks the University of North Texas (College of Information) for this enriching academic experience.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. American Library Association, “Advocacy and Public Policy,” https://www.ala.org/advocacy/federal-resources (accessed July 15, 2023).2. Paula Wittmann and Nancy Fisher-Allison, “Intentionally Creating a Safe Space for All: The School Library as Refuge,” Knowledge Quest 48, no. 3 (2020): 42.3. Lisa Zhao, “Protection of Library Users’ Privacy: An Analysis of US State Laws,” Chinese Librarianship 26, no. 26 (2008): 8.4. Sandra J. Valenti, Brady D. Lund, and Matthew A. Beckstrom, Library Patrons’ Privacy: Questions and Answers (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2022), 11.5. Judith Rauhofer, “Privacy Is Dead, Get over It! Information Privacy and the Dream of a Risk-Free Society,” Information & Communications Technology Law 17, no. 3 (October 2008): 185–97. doi:10.1080/13600830802472990.6. American Library Association, “Privacy,” https://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy (accessed July 15, 2023).7. Ibid.8. Ibid.9. Debra Lau Whelan, “A Dirty Little Secret: Self-Censorship,” School Library Journal 55, no. 2 (2009): 26–30.10. Ibid.11. Jennifer Downey, “Self-Censorship in Selection of LGBT-Themed Materials,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 53, no. 2 (Winter 2013): 104–107. https://libproxy.library.unt.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/self-censorship-selection-lgbt-themed-materials/docview/1470878772/se-2.12. Ibid.13. Jennifer Elaine Steele, “Cases of Censorship in Public Libraries: Wichita Falls, TX,” Public Library Quarterly (2019). doi:10.1080/01616846.2019.1692324.1
{"title":"Guardians of Freedom: Examining Privacy, Censorship, and Government Legislation in Collection Development","authors":"Zoë Abbie Teel","doi":"10.1080/0361526x.2023.2245862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526x.2023.2245862","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article delves into the complex and inseparable relationship between collection development in libraries and the interconnected factors of privacy, censorship, and government influence. Libraries, as guardians of information and knowledge, constantly strive to update their collections to meet the diverse needs of patrons. However, in doing so, they face intricate challenges that extend beyond merely acquiring materials. This article aims to shed light on the pivotal role librarians play in collection development. It highlights the need for librarians to consider a wide range of factors, both internal and external, before making informed decisions about their collections. By understanding the multifaceted nature of their responsibilities, librarians can better serve their communities and maintain libraries as vital centers for knowledge dissemination. This article ultimately offers insights that can contribute to the enhancement of collection development practices, ensuring libraries remain adaptive, inclusive, and conducive to the pursuit of knowledge in an ever-changing world.KEYWORDS: Privacy in librariescensorshiplegislationintellectual freedomacademic freedom AcknowledgmentsThis article was originally written for INFO5400: Information Resources Development. The author thanks the University of North Texas (College of Information) for this enriching academic experience.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. American Library Association, “Advocacy and Public Policy,” https://www.ala.org/advocacy/federal-resources (accessed July 15, 2023).2. Paula Wittmann and Nancy Fisher-Allison, “Intentionally Creating a Safe Space for All: The School Library as Refuge,” Knowledge Quest 48, no. 3 (2020): 42.3. Lisa Zhao, “Protection of Library Users’ Privacy: An Analysis of US State Laws,” Chinese Librarianship 26, no. 26 (2008): 8.4. Sandra J. Valenti, Brady D. Lund, and Matthew A. Beckstrom, Library Patrons’ Privacy: Questions and Answers (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2022), 11.5. Judith Rauhofer, “Privacy Is Dead, Get over It! Information Privacy and the Dream of a Risk-Free Society,” Information & Communications Technology Law 17, no. 3 (October 2008): 185–97. doi:10.1080/13600830802472990.6. American Library Association, “Privacy,” https://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy (accessed July 15, 2023).7. Ibid.8. Ibid.9. Debra Lau Whelan, “A Dirty Little Secret: Self-Censorship,” School Library Journal 55, no. 2 (2009): 26–30.10. Ibid.11. Jennifer Downey, “Self-Censorship in Selection of LGBT-Themed Materials,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 53, no. 2 (Winter 2013): 104–107. https://libproxy.library.unt.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/self-censorship-selection-lgbt-themed-materials/docview/1470878772/se-2.12. Ibid.13. Jennifer Elaine Steele, “Cases of Censorship in Public Libraries: Wichita Falls, TX,” Public Library Quarterly (2019). doi:10.1080/01616846.2019.1692324.1","PeriodicalId":39557,"journal":{"name":"Serials Librarian","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135535424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2023.2192021
Ronique Gillis
ABSTRACT Neutrality in librarianship is a nonsensical concept that libraries of all kinds (e.g., public, academic, special, etc.) should not strive to embody in any shape or form. The following paper investigates the intricate relationships between neutrality and racism as they are demonstrated by tangible and intangible forms in library and information science (LIS) spaces. Ian Williams’ book chapter, “More Than Half of Americans Can’t Swim”, from his book, Disorientation: Being Black in the World (2021), is utilized to critically reflect on Blackness as identity and some ways in which antiracist practices clash with neutrality within LIS spaces. I conclude with urgent reminders of how detrimental neutrality can be if it is not thoroughly rooted out and supplanted with antiracist practices that the LIS field is in dire need of.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2023.2173357
Z. A. Teel
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Pub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2023.2173356
Gina Devincenzi
ABSTRACT Oral tradition is a temporally contingent information medium predicated upon the present, which requires preservation efforts be predicated upon such as well. Despite being the oldest information sharing method in human history, its preservation remains dangerously overlooked, deprioritized, and misunderstood among information professionals. Since the advent of written language, oral tradition’s authority has been subjugated and eclipsed in favor of the stability availed by newer documentation methods, and as languages and cultures continue to go extinct, it is increasingly urgent to renegotiate the field’s approach to the medium and its preservation. By applying an interdisciplinary, narrative lens to the history of information, the means of ameliorating information science’s problematic relationship with oral tradition can be found in the same documents and ideologies that caused it, as written by four forefathers of modern thought. Through this, oral tradition’s significance is crystallized as the Father of Information – an essential pillar of the information field that if handled with care, holds great potential for communities, history, and information as it is known.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-13DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2023.2172515
N. Wood
ABSTRACT The following article is a composite review and critique of copyright systems in the United States and their impacts upon creators and individuals alike. The public domain is rapidly dwindling due to changes in copyright law that have greatly prolonged the length of copyright protections. The primary beneficiaries of these increased protections are the large entertainment corporations that can easily afford to contest what, in many cases, would otherwise be considered fair use of copyrighted material. This article argues the substantial need for collective action and stewardship of publicly owned information in order to generate a better and stronger public domain.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-01-17DOI: 10.1080/16066359.2023.2167982
Charles T Orjiakor, John Eze, Methodius Chinweoke, Michael Ezenwa, Ijeoma Orjiakor, Obinna Onwujekwe, Joseph Palamar
Background: There has been an increase in methamphetamine use across the globe, despite widespread control of the drug, prevention, and treatment. Community-based approaches have proven effective in tackling diverse health-related challenges including substance use; however, little is known regarding community programs targeting methamphetamine use. We conducted a systematic literature review on community programs aimed at tackling the use of methamphetamine across the globe.
Method: Relevant literature from peer-reviewed and gray literature sources were systematically identified. A grid template was used to extract and synthesize findings from retrieved literature regarding themes of actors, actions, and outcomes related to identified programs.
Results: A total of 19 documents met our inclusion criteria. Some of the dominant actors in efforts to reduce methamphetamine use in communities were local councils, drug enforcement units, influential persons in the community, people who use or had used methamphetamine, business corporations, and already-existing health promoting platforms. Actions taken were typically education/awareness/information campaigns. Drug enforcement agencies appeared to make little gains when acting alone, and appeared to drive dealers and users underground. Many of the efforts made at the community level were alluded to be beneficial; however, it was difficult to quantify the impact of programs. Community-level efforts also tended to cascade to other drugs.
Conclusion: Community-based actors and actions are diverse and critical to the prevention of methamphetamine use. There is a need to better coordinate and integrate different actors and interventions so that outcomes can be better monitored and evaluated for greater effectiveness in reducing methamphetamine use.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2023.2183926
N. Barik, Puspanjali Jena
ABSTRACT The present study aims to determine the current status of open access journals published in India in terms of numbers, yearly growth, funding organizations, major subject area, indexing, and abstracting status, publication charges, and open access licensing models of such journals. The study used the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as the source database and retrieved the bibliographic records of selected 306 Open Access (OA) journals published in India from 2003 to May 20, 2021. Further, the study referred to other web sources such as Web of Science, and Scopus to examine the indexing status of 306 open access journals and Journal Citation Report (JCR) database was referred to know the impact factor (IF) status of these journals. As per DOAJ database records, India ranks 16th as an OA journal publishing country across the globe. The yearly growth of open access journals in India was found to be 22.36%. Among these 306 open access journals, about 44.11% of journals are indexed in Scopus, 34.96% of journals are indexed in Web of Science, and 7.18% of journals with impact factor (IF) are indexed in JCR. Almost 74% of open access journals published in India do not charge Article Processing Charges (APC). The quality and quantity of OA journals published in India will surely attract authors, researchers, and academicians to rethink open access journals and their extensive use will boost the impact of research in India.
摘要本研究旨在确定印度出版的开放获取期刊的数量、年度增长、资助组织、主要学科领域、索引和摘要状态、出版费用以及开放获取许可模式等方面的现状。该研究使用开放获取期刊目录（DOAJ）作为源数据库，检索了2003年至2021年5月20日在印度出版的306种开放获取期刊的书目记录。此外，该研究参考了其他网络来源，如web of Science和Scopus，以检查306种开放获取期刊的索引状态，并参考了期刊引文报告（JCR）数据库，以了解这些期刊的影响因素（IF）状态。根据DOAJ数据库记录，印度在全球OA期刊出版国排名第16位。印度开放获取期刊的年增长率为22.36%。在这306种开放获取期刊中，约44.11%的期刊在Scopus中索引，34.96%的期刊在Web of Science中索引，7.18%的具有影响因子（IF）的期刊在JCR中索引。在印度出版的开放获取期刊中，近74%不收取文章处理费。在印度出版的OA期刊的质量和数量肯定会吸引作者、研究人员和院士重新思考开放获取期刊，它们的广泛使用将提高印度研究的影响力。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2023.2227660
Christian. Mubofu, H. Mambo
ABSTRACT Despite the presence of well-equipped libraries and committed librarians in higher learning institutions, the rate at which academicians produce and publish their work has slowed significantly in recent years. This is concerning since publication is important in decisions about promotion and contracts in academic and specialized settings. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of librarians in the publishing process within academic institutions, the level of awareness among academicians regarding the research support services provided by librarians, the factors impeding academicians from actively engaging in writing and publishing, academicians' perceptions of the services offered in academic libraries, and, finally, academicians' recommended services that could improve their publication rate.
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