Pub Date : 2022-03-24DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2022.2018238
E. Elliott, Amy J. Carlson
ABSTRACT Accessing and preserving e-journals is critical for the scholarly record. Recording e-journal entitlements and determining e-journal preservation statuses help to maintain access for continued research. Emily Elliott introduced EDINA’s Entitlement Registry, a service designed to keep track of the e-journal titles and their holdings to which a library is entitled.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-24DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2022.2018231
Twanna Hodge, Courtney McAllister
ABSTRACT In her NASIG Vision Session, Twanna Hodge of the University of Florida Libraries addressed a wide range of questions and concerns: What does the future hold in regard to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)? Who are the responsible parties? What needs to be done? When are we done? Or better yet, can we ever be done? Where are we going? Why are we here now? The mission of NASIG is about working to advance and transform the management of information resources. What steps have we taken to advance DEI? What transformative steps still need to be taken? What would it take to transform our profession to where DEI is embedded into everything? What resources and efforts are required? What needs to be discarded? What needs to be changed? How do we define success? How do we hold ourselves accountable? How do we fail forward? We are envisioning and working to create a world that doesn’t exist. Creating an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming future requires acknowledging a dark, painful, and traumatic past and present rooted in exclusionary standards and practices, foundations of white supremacy culture, settler colonialism, and more. In her address, Twanna Hodge began to answer these questions and explained her cautious optimism about this work.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-24DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2018232
Andrea Imre, Lorraine Estelle
ABSTRACT COUNTER Release 5 introduced four new reporting metrics: Total_Item_Requests, Unique_Item_Requests, Total_Item_Investigations, and Unique_Item_Investigations. These new measurements allow librarians to compare use across different platforms and finally overcome the shortcomings of previous COUNTER releases where platform design strongly influenced usage statistics and often resulted in double counting PDF downloads and HTML views. The presenters explained the changes from Release 4 to Release 5 and the impact of the new metrics on more robust decision-making and easier comparison of usage across platforms. Special emphasis was placed on investigating the effects of the new reporting metrics, identifying providers most impacted by the changes in metrics, and assessing how much of the double counting in COUNTER 4 was eliminated by the standards change. The session also covered how Open Access usage data can inform librarians in decision-making and the impact of the global pandemic on 2020 usage statistics.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-24DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2030850
Eesha Parasnis
ABSTRACT Social media has evolved over time from the digital platforms that facilitated human connections they initially set out to be, to the extremely popular and influential channels of information exchange they are today, overrun with misinformation, propaganda, and sponsored content. Adolescents are particularly susceptible to the effects of social media, and the relationship between social media and adolescents has been researched heavily in several different contexts such as identity-formation, mental health, and social interactions, to mixed results. This research seeks to understand the effects of social media on adolescents through the lens of information and advertising literacy. This research reviews the existing literature on adolescents’ abilities to identify misinformation and sponsored content on social media, the two measures for critical thinking used in this research. The findings indicate that although adolescents’ critical thinking skills on social media are not activated in most instances, it is a complex issue with several influencing factors, calling for future research in this area.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-21DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2022.2018219
Amy Fry, Jamie Gieseck-Ashworth, C. Seiler
ABSTRACT This pre-recorded session consisted of two presentations. In one, Amy Fry, an e-resources librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, shared an analysis of print and e-book usage data from before and during the COVID-19 pandemic at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). In the other, Carol Seiler and Jamie Gieseck-Ashworth of EBSCO demonstrated the Excel plugin Fuzzy Lookup and explained how it can be used for data analysis projects.
{"title":"Loving Statistics & Excel Fuzzy Lookup in the Time of COVID-19","authors":"Amy Fry, Jamie Gieseck-Ashworth, C. Seiler","doi":"10.1080/0361526x.2022.2018219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526x.2022.2018219","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This pre-recorded session consisted of two presentations. In one, Amy Fry, an e-resources librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, shared an analysis of print and e-book usage data from before and during the COVID-19 pandemic at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). In the other, Carol Seiler and Jamie Gieseck-Ashworth of EBSCO demonstrated the Excel plugin Fuzzy Lookup and explained how it can be used for data analysis projects.","PeriodicalId":39557,"journal":{"name":"Serials Librarian","volume":"82 1","pages":"145 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47600203","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 : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2018211
Nat Gustafson-Sundell, Pat Lienemann, Luwis Andradi, Evan Rusch, Jeff Rosamond
ABSTRACT The presenters demonstrated the most recent results and insights from a long-running, iterative Collection Management Technology (CMT) project. Demonstrations included a journal package level analysis report, an interactive subject analysis report, several data visualization designs for journal package analysis, and a program to automate report production, including data visualizations. Finally, the current, cyclical journal collection review process was compared to a past cycle to highlight how the CMT team’s development priorities have changed. Instead of focusing primarily on efficiency and information yield in the tools they build, the team has now prioritized the development of tools that enable interaction with the data and broaden understanding.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2018206
Christine Tulley, Drew Balduff
ABSTRACT This article describes a program session covering the unique ways in which librarians can form increasingly collaborative partnerships with researchers at their institution. Specifically, session leaders drew from the six stages of the academic publishing lifecycle – Research, Write, Review, Publish, Distribute, and Read – to illustrate how librarians can assist tenure-track faculty throughout the publishing process beyond common practices in data access, discovery, and preservation.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2017673
C. Harrington, R. Scott
ABSTRACT This session continues the work of a 2019 survey that investigated library policies related to Open Access (OA). Specifically, this study sought to address the self-selection of participants by randomly selecting and directly contacting academic librarians at libraries within one of four different Carnegie classifications to request input on their library’s collection development policies and the existence of OA policies or informal practices related to library collections. The findings surface disparities in the documentation of OA collection practices among institution classifications and highlight concerns about both OA and policies in the collections strategies of academic libraries.
{"title":"Documenting an Open Future in a Post-Policy World","authors":"C. Harrington, R. Scott","doi":"10.1080/0361526X.2022.2017673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2022.2017673","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This session continues the work of a 2019 survey that investigated library policies related to Open Access (OA). Specifically, this study sought to address the self-selection of participants by randomly selecting and directly contacting academic librarians at libraries within one of four different Carnegie classifications to request input on their library’s collection development policies and the existence of OA policies or informal practices related to library collections. The findings surface disparities in the documentation of OA collection practices among institution classifications and highlight concerns about both OA and policies in the collections strategies of academic libraries.","PeriodicalId":39557,"journal":{"name":"Serials Librarian","volume":"82 1","pages":"113 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48128455","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 : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2022.2018210
Smita Joshipura, Pam Cipkowski
ABSTRACT This presentation illustrated a proactive approach carried out by the Electronic Resources Management (ERM) team at the Arizona State University (ASU) Library, which resulted in a reduction in the volume of tickets from users. The discussion included details about the systematic process of handling various e-resource projects carried out by the team, challenges encountered, and recommendations to assist institutions in providing uninterrupted access of e-resources to their library users.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1080/0361526x.2022.2018207
Heidi Zuniga
ABSTRACT The degree to which a library’s electronic resources meet accessibility standards varies depending on the platform or publisher. E-resources that do not meet these standards are not only problematic for users with accessibility needs, but they can also leave institutions vulnerable to legal action. Fortunately, there is growing awareness among librarians and publishers about the importance of e-resource accessibility. Because of this increasing awareness, some changes in library workflows are occurring. Accessibility compliance information can be recorded in library management system records, for example. Additionally, many publishers are proactively providing accessibility statements and documentation. This presentation provided basic information about accessibility and e-resources, why accessibility is important, and what actions can be taken to improve accessibility and e-resources.
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