Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2121798
Mariella Pilgrim, Arlene Dolabaille
ABSTRACT Evidence-based acquisition (EBA) programmes have been gaining momentum in academic libraries over the past 5–10 years. This paper examines our experience implementing one of these programmes at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. In 2019, The Alma Jordan Library of the St. Augustine Campus partnered with Wiley Publishers to administer the Usage Based Collection Management (UBCM) programme. The results at the end of this first year were very encouraging and therefore, the decision was taken to extend the programme for a second year, and it has been continued for a third year. This paper describes the process of selecting a provider of a user-driven eBook acquisition model, implementing the programme, and gathering usage statistics. An analysis of the data was conducted at the end of the programme, and then criteria developed and used for identifying titles for purchase. In the analysis, the authors explore the following: usage based on titles not owned, usage based on subject areas; return on investment to the library; continued use of UBCM- purchased titles. Also included are the benefits of implementing such a programme, challenges experienced, and recommendations for libraries wishing to embark on such a project.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2138682
Pooja Mishra, S. Rout, Sarita Gulati, A. Sinhababu, Prof. Rupak Chakravarty
ABSTRACT The present study aims to investigate the trend and growth of Open Access (OA) journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) portal. The authors found that there are 17,379 indexed journals in 80 languages from 130 countries covering all fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The study presents findings on the contribution to DOAJ by subjects, country, DOAJ seal, article processing charges (APC), and author publishing rights. The study found that medicine journals were highest in this portal and the majority of contributions came from Indonesia. It was also found that the majority of the journals allow the author to hold publishing rights and only 8% of OA journals received the DOAJ seal. The maximum numbers of OA journals have Creative Commons Attribution licences and the highest APC is Rs. 3,97,985. DOAJ is the main source of information in facilitating organized access to OA literature. It is recommended to raise a DOAJ special seal for practicing extra high-level commitment to OA publications.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2065406
Simona Sivkoff-Livneh
ABSTRACT Classes and workshops for children are a core part of the service provided by many public libraries to their communities. But are libraries offering the kind of classes that children and parents are most interested in? Can libraries offer a compatible alternative to paid online platforms like Outschool? In this study, I attempt to answer these questions by looking at trends from an online virtual class marketplace. Outschool is an online marketplace of virtual classes for children. As of November 2021, Outschool offers over 140,000 virtual classes. To help users discover classes they might like, Outschool makes it possible to list classes sorted by popularity. In this project, I will look at the top 50 most popular classes offered by Outschool. By reading class descriptions and identifying common themes and subject matters, I will provide a taxonomic breakdown of the most popular topics on the site. I will then compare this to the class and workshop offerings for children provided by the largest public library system in North America, the New York Public Library. By comparing the offerings of the online marketplace with those provided by the NYPL, I will identify gaps in the library’s offerings and suggest subject matters that are likely to have a broad appeal to the communities they serve.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2089949
R. Vragov
ABSTRACT This article models the rational incentives involved in providing an informative evaluation for a knowledge management system when the evaluation has some consequences to the evaluator. The analysis is carried out in the context of the peer review process that is currently used to select articles for publication in scientific journals. The article uses the model to evaluate some proposed and implemented improvements to the peer review process. In conclusion, the article outlines other approaches that can result in improvements to the peer review process and invites further empirical research. While the article focuses on academic publishing in the sciences, there is some discussion on how its conclusions could be extended into the humanities or inter-disciplinary scholarship.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2078924
F. Otike, Asmaa Bouaamri, Á. Hajdu Barát
ABSTRACT This paper critically analyses the effects of predatory publishing as a major contributor to misinformation and disinformation amongst academicians and learners in developing countries. The paper notes that predatory publishing poses a major hindrance in the struggles to enhance academic excellence. This paper established that predatory publishing has great consequences in the spread of misinformation and disinformation amongst academicians and Learners in Developing Countries. Some of the reasons that necessitate the increase in predatory publishing in developing countries are; the lack of proper policies or guidance on where research articles should or should not be published, the failure to embrace open access initiatives for visibility and dissemination of research outputs so as to discourage academic malpractice and unethical behaviors, lack of funds, poor or limited information literacy among other factors. The paper is unique in that it comprehensively analyses the concept of predatory journals with misinformation and disinformation in academic circles in the developing world, putting into consideration that most academic staff or researchers assume that whatever is on the web is genuine and absolute true information.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2078922
H. Memari, Somayeh Hashemi
ABSTRACT COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on individual and social activities, at the beginning of 2020, this pandemic led to the closure of social activities. After that, with the limited resumption of these activities, the activities of many social institutions took on different forms. Among these social institutions, we can mention the libraries that were closed in the first few months of Pandemic and continued their cultural activities through cyberspace, and now serve a small percentage of their users to maintain the health of members. In this regard, the National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI), according to its duties and missions, has taken effective steps in developing strategies to increase the level of services and optimize services by using new technologies. One of the duties of the National Library is to distribute and make available information to all users. The NLAI, with the slogan “National Memory in the Home of Every Iranian,” has placed a part of its digital resources on the library’s website for public access to these resources. These services include “Iranian National Memory System,” “Iranian Periodicals System,” “Digital Children’s Library” and “Digital Library.”
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Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2078923
Kishor John, B. Tater
ABSTRACT This study attempts to comprehend the reading habits of faculty members of the higher education sector in India during the lockdown period and a comparative analysis of the reading habits of faculty members prior to the lockdown and during the lockdown. The study used an online survey approach to gather information using a Google form. The study population was composed of teachers from the higher education sectors in India. The study revealed the change and the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown state on faculty members’ reading habits in India’s higher education sector. An online survey was conducted of the unknown population using WhatsApp received 734 responses. The responses were analyzed by the study’s objectives and tested a simple null hypothesis, i.e., “There is no significant change in the reading habits of the faculty members of the higher education sector in India during the lockdown period.” The study discovered that faculty members had spent more time for reading, reading habits have considerably increased, a positive impact on reading habits, utilized their lockdown time to satisfy their information needs, the change in reading habits is observable, and there is an inclination towards the utilization of digital and online information. The study would be helpful for librarians, libraries, and information centres to prepare future strategic plans, develop a system for crisis management in libraries, and provide better information services after knowing the opinion of faculty members of higher education. The study is original since no study combining variables such as teachers, higher education sector, India, and reading habits has been undertaken. This study would also guide future studies in this field.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2040886
T. Hazen, Julie Zhu, Richard R. Guajardo
ABSTRACT The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) recently revised the Open Discovery Initiative Recommended Practice (https://www.niso.org/publications/rp-19-2020-odi), which outlines best practices for discovery service providers. It streamlines the process by which libraries, content providers, and discovery service providers work together; defines models for “fair” linking; and suggests usage statistics that should be collected for libraries and for content providers. The recommendations in this document, created by members of the Open Discovery Initiative Standing Committee, enable libraries, discovery service providers, and content providers to work together to the full extent of their abilities – thus providing an effective and rich experience to end users.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2022.2028501
Fobazi Ettarh, Chris Vidas
ABSTRACT Fobazi Ettarh presented a cautionary tale regarding the future of libraries in her Vision Session at the 2021 NASIG Conference. Rather than painting an unrealistically optimistic picture of the future, Fobazi highlighted numerous concerns surrounding libraries and the increasingly lofty demands placed on library workers. Between the pandemic and growing societal concerns surrounding race and equity, libraries need to unite to form a better future that emphasizes individual care and self-love which will ultimately go further in achieving goals that positively impact the communities they serve.
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