Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2023.2193613
S. Wan
ABSTRACT In the last decade, Sci-Hub has become prevalent among academic information users across the world. Providing thousands of users with millions of uncopyrighted electronic academic resources, this information pirate website has become a significant threat to copyrights in cyberspace. Information scholars have examined the unequal distribution of IP addresses of Sci-Hub users’ nationality and emphasized the high proportion taken by users from the developed countries. This study finds new evidence from Google Scholar. Searching “Sci-Hub.tw” in the academic search engine, the author finds 531 results containing the keyword. Considering the result, the author argues that academic users in South American countries may use Sci-Hub more frequently than their counterparts in the rest of the world. Moreover, users in the Global North also rely on Sci-Hub to complete their research as well. The new evidence on Google Scholar proves the universal use of Sci-Hub across the world.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2023.2212019
Lisa Romero
ABSTRACT Communication is an interdisciplinary subject area that relates to several other subject areas. Communication databases are important library resources since they serve as gateways to information for many researchers. While databases can be essential in connecting researchers to relevant resources such as newspapers, journals, magazines, and books, they can be one of the most expensive library resources. In an ongoing climate of increasing prices for library resources and shrinking library budgets, it is important that librarians have data that helps them evaluate resources and ultimately determine which one(s) is(are) best suited to meet user needs. Using a core list of communication journals, this study examines coverage of four communication and media databases and five general databases to determine whether the databases provide access to the journals necessary for communication research and provide librarians with information to assist in the collection development process.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2023.2191658
Adebowale Jeremy Adetayo
ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate the relationship between news sources and climate change attitudes among students at Adeleke University and its implications on libraries. The study utilized a descriptive survey design with a questionnaire to collect data from 688 respondents. The majority of the participants showed an unconcerned attitude towards climate change. The sources from which students obtained climate change news were NTA, AIT, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Cable News Network (CNN), TVC News, and Punch. It was found that sourcing climate change news from specific local and international news outlets such as Fox News, Al Jazeera, Euro News, Sky News, CNBC Africa, Channels, AIT, Vanguard, Nigeria Tribune, Guardian Nigeria, Silverbird Television, TVC News, Arise News, and NTA was strongly associated with an unconcerned attitude towards climate change. The study concludes that libraries should provide more news sources that can raise awareness about climate change in Nigeria to address the prevalent unconcerned attitude towards climate change.
{"title":"News Sources and Climate Change Attitude among Students: Implications for Libraries","authors":"Adebowale Jeremy Adetayo","doi":"10.1080/0361526X.2023.2191658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2023.2191658","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate the relationship between news sources and climate change attitudes among students at Adeleke University and its implications on libraries. The study utilized a descriptive survey design with a questionnaire to collect data from 688 respondents. The majority of the participants showed an unconcerned attitude towards climate change. The sources from which students obtained climate change news were NTA, AIT, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Cable News Network (CNN), TVC News, and Punch. It was found that sourcing climate change news from specific local and international news outlets such as Fox News, Al Jazeera, Euro News, Sky News, CNBC Africa, Channels, AIT, Vanguard, Nigeria Tribune, Guardian Nigeria, Silverbird Television, TVC News, Arise News, and NTA was strongly associated with an unconcerned attitude towards climate change. The study concludes that libraries should provide more news sources that can raise awareness about climate change in Nigeria to address the prevalent unconcerned attitude towards climate change.","PeriodicalId":39557,"journal":{"name":"Serials Librarian","volume":"83 1","pages":"215 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48102065","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 : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2022.2121799
Rebecca Teague
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Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2045244
J. Akeroyd, Eti Herman, D. Nicholas, A. Watkinson
ABSTRACT Changing business models in scholarly publishing means that researchers have increased choices as to where to submit their articles. Choices are made on the basis of perceived quality of the journal, the speed of publishing, and how close a match there is between the journal scope and the article topic. Additionally, there is an increasing concern as to whether the journals are predatory. This paper reports on a study which sought to understand how health researchers go about selecting where to publish and the support that they receive in this regard from librarians and related staff. The research confirms that knowledge of a specific journal is still the predominant factor for researchers and that they prefer to rely on their own judgment. Librarians are providing the tools such as databases and whitelists by which better choices can be made whilst exploring new roles in advising and training researchers. Predatory journals are being selected by some, chiefly as a consequence of a lack of awareness amongst researchers and the need for some to publish swiftly and at low cost.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2145414
M. Dadkhah, F. Rahimnia, A. Memon
ABSTRACT There are many misleading scientific metrics that are not known to the scientific community, particularly novice researchers. There is limited research in the area of misleading metrics, particularly related to business journals. Therefore, this research aims to examine the use of misleading metrics by business journals, the most popular misleading metrics, and countries contributing to the website traffic for such metrics. We used Scimago ranking for business journals and examined the website of each for the use of misleading metrics. Further, we used a domain-based approach by gathering data from Search Engine Optimization websites (i.e., Alexa and Ubersuggest). Only a few Scopus-indexed, low-quality business journals used misleading metrics on their website. The most common misleading metrics were International Scientific Institute, Open Academic Journals Index, CiteFactor, IndexCopernicus, and International Scientific Indexing. In addition, Indian authors were the most frequent visitors of the websites of misleading metrics.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2142722
Amanpreet Kaur, Ritu Sharma, Pooja Mishra, A. Sinhababu, Prof. Rupak Chakravarty
ABSTRACT The present study aims to highlight the features of Connected Papers, a visual tool that can help researchers find and explore academic papers in their literature search. The authors describe how Connected Papers allow to create a network of all the literature available related to a chosen paper. One can use Connected Papers to pull together related papers on a chosen topic and see prior and derivative works based on that topic. Using the Connected Papers tool authors attempt to visualize the key literature on the topic “Blockchain in libraries.” To date, most Blockchain technology applications in libraries are still in the conceptual stage. However, sooner or later, the development and implementation of the technology are expected to facilitate the transformation of how libraries provide services and organize information. This study contributes to examining the research being done to explore the potential of Blockchain technology in libraries through mapping and visualization. The paper is original in terms of the Visual tool used “Connected Papers.”
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Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2139331
Ye Mun, Heidi Card, Kathaleen McCormick, Kristy White, Tracie Ballock, R. Behary
ABSTRACT This article proposes a methodology for systematically assessing the cost of journal subscriptions. The authors of the paper (hereafter “the researchers”) established ratios comparing the list costs of journal articles as advertised by publishers against the cost per article of journal articles available in aggregated collections in library databases (hereafter “aggregating databases”). The researchers propose that the ratios can be used by libraries wishing to apply a standard methodology for assessing journal packages containing full-text articles. The study may be helpful for those librarians who seek to supplement qualitative information and other quantitative data, such as usage statistics, in order to demonstrate the library's rationale for providing journal access either by purchasing articles directly from a publisher as needed or by continuing to subscribe to an aggregating database. The aggregating databases reviewed in this study included representative aggregating databases commonly associated with the following fields of study: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Health Sciences; however, the methodology described in this article could be applied to other disciplines as well. The results of the study indicated that the ratios for Mean Cost/Package Subscription Price (MC/PSP), Median Cost/Package Subscription Price (MED/PSP) could be used in evaluating journal collections. The researchers suggest that future studies should be conducted to assess resource sharing and the availability of open access resource versions of articles as possible contributing factors to the purchase decisions associated with scholarly journal articles.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2138683
G. Kotoroi, Nancy E. Tukae
ABSTRACT This study discussed challenges facing the Tanzania National Central Library (TNCL) in providing information services to prisoners. Data were collected using a structured interview and standardized questionnaire that were administered to 41 librarians. Face to Face interview was conducted with the Library Director and two Heads of Departments who were purposefully selected. Each interview lasted between 30 and 40 minutes. All 41 TNCL employees were included in the sample of the study. The quantitative data outputs were presented in the form of descriptive statistics, mainly in tabular form while qualitative data, which were subjected to content analysis were presented mainly in a narrative form. The findings indicated that TNCL uses various sources to disseminate information to prisoners. Moreover, they also indicated that TNCL faces several challenges including inadequate funds, poor infrasture systems, restrictive prison policies and lack of library buildings which is deterring provision of information services to prisoners. The study recommended that all of the raised challenges should be solved to facilitate information provision services to prisoners.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2143467
C. Bareh
ABSTRACT Privacy policy is crucial in educating librarians about how vendors handle patron's data and what are their current privacy practices? Fewer have studied the content of library vendors’ privacy policies for their readability score and privacy compliance. With this background, the study performed a comprehensive keyword-based, content analysis of 64 privacy policies from three category of library vendors (1) IT vendors (2) E-resource vendors (3) Publisher's cum bookseller's vendors. The study used the Flesch-Kinkaid grade level for readability score and evaluate their privacy compliance with the 11 privacy principles articulated from the India's Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (Referred to as “PDPB” in this study). The results indicate low availability of privacy policies (n = 64, 41.29%) out of 155 library vendors. Overall, the average reading grade level on all categories of vendors are similar; they are written for readers above 12 grades and are suitable for college readers. Their privacy compliance is low in all categories, with average compliance of 3∼4 out of the 11 privacy principles. Similarly, the privacy compliance in each vendor's category is the highest for data collection, processing, and sharing principles. In contrast, it is the lowest for accountability, data retention, safeguarding children's data, users’ consent and transparency. The article concludes with specific recommendations for vendors to overcome their readability and privacy compliance deficiency, thereby providing librarians with corrective measures when negotiating with vendors to protect patrons’ privacy.
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