Pub Date : 2012-03-16DOI: 10.1108/00012531211215150
Younghee Noh
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the correlation between university libraries and academic research achievement and analyze if university library resources correlate with academic research achievement.Design/methodology/approach – The paper seeks to verify the correlation between university libraries and academic research achievement and to examine which university library resources relate to research achievement. A variety of research questions were posed concerning the relationship between a university's library resources and academic research achievement. Structural equation models (SEMs) were developed to answer the research questions. Most research questions posed were affirmatively answered using the SEM process.Findings – This study confirmed that labor and budget, investment in e‐resources and an investment in university libraries enhances academic research achievement.Research limitations/implications – An SEM for verifying the correlation between university libraries and aca...
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Pub Date : 2012-03-16DOI: 10.1108/00012531211215169
Younghee Noh
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an input‐output analysis of electronic resources in academic libraries by verifying evaluation indicators and applying them to the digital library environment.Design/methodology/approach – This study measures the performance of electronic resources in academic libraries in Korea. To measure the efficiency of the input‐output ratio, evaluation indicators were divided into inputs and outputs. Inputs refer to the e‐resource use environment as well as the acquisition of e‐resources such as web DB, e‐books, e‐journals, and so on. Outputs quantify the use of each resource.Findings – First, the results of this study show that a large share of academic library budgets is spent on e‐resource purchases and e‐resource environment improvement for better use. Second, the measurement shows that web DB subscription, annual e‐resource development, and education for e‐resource exhibit higher efficiency, while e‐resource use, web DB and e‐journal download exhibited relative...
{"title":"A study measuring the performance of electronic resources in academic libraries","authors":"Younghee Noh","doi":"10.1108/00012531211215169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531211215169","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an input‐output analysis of electronic resources in academic libraries by verifying evaluation indicators and applying them to the digital library environment.Design/methodology/approach – This study measures the performance of electronic resources in academic libraries in Korea. To measure the efficiency of the input‐output ratio, evaluation indicators were divided into inputs and outputs. Inputs refer to the e‐resource use environment as well as the acquisition of e‐resources such as web DB, e‐books, e‐journals, and so on. Outputs quantify the use of each resource.Findings – First, the results of this study show that a large share of academic library budgets is spent on e‐resource purchases and e‐resource environment improvement for better use. Second, the measurement shows that web DB subscription, annual e‐resource development, and education for e‐resource exhibit higher efficiency, while e‐resource use, web DB and e‐journal download exhibited relative...","PeriodicalId":55449,"journal":{"name":"Aslib Proceedings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85337292","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 : 2012-01-13DOI: 10.1108/00012531211196684
Eduardo Aguado-López, Gustavo Adolfo Garduño-Oropeza, Rosario Rogel-Salazar, María Fernanda Zúñiga-Roca
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the online information system Redalyc as an intermediary tool that provides Latin American scientific articles with international standards (mostly related to natural sciences and developed countries) as well as with specific areas to host local research.Design/methodology/approach – Redalyc is based on a semantic intersection model proposed by Russian semiologist Yuri Lotman. This model allows us to visualize the role played by Redalyc as a mediator between opposites, i.e. local science versus global science, and natural sciences versus social sciences. The paper presents some of the projects Redalyc has developed in conjunction with different countries and different scientific communities.Findings – The paper describes some characteristics that local projects, similar to Redalyc, must have in order to become an intermediary between scientific journal production indexes that link global parameters for scientific communication with local production. The ...
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Pub Date : 2012-01-13DOI: 10.1108/00012531211196738
Ernesto Priani Saisó
Purpose – This paper seeks to provide a description and reflection on some of the structural problems and challenges faced when developing a digital humanities (DH) project in a Mexican public university.Design/methodology/approach – As DH is a relatively new field and practice in Mexican academia, this article is based on a case study of developing the Biblioteca Digital de Pensamiento Novohispano (Digital Library of New Hispanic Thought). This is one of the few DH at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), the largest public university in the country.Findings – It was found that there were three central problems for developing a DH project in a Mexican public university: existing technical knowledge and abilities at the UNAM will be challenged by DH projects; projects are the place to train human resources in DH methodology; and researchers need to consider different long‐term infrastructure and hosting solutions, with or without using institutional infrastructure, at the same time researche...
目的:本文旨在描述和反思墨西哥一所公立大学在开发数字人文学科(DH)项目时面临的一些结构性问题和挑战。设计/方法论/方法-由于DH在墨西哥学术界是一个相对较新的领域和实践，本文基于开发Biblioteca Digital de Pensamiento Novohispano(新西班牙思想数字图书馆)的案例研究。这是墨西哥最大的公立大学墨西哥国立自治大学(UNAM)为数不多的DH之一。调查结果-研究发现，在墨西哥公立大学开展卫生保健项目有三个主要问题:卫生保健项目将挑战墨西哥国立大学现有的技术知识和能力;项目是培训人力资源采用卫生保健方法的地方;研究人员需要考虑不同的长期基础设施和托管解决方案，使用或不使用机构基础设施，同时研究……
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Pub Date : 2012-01-13DOI: 10.1108/00012531211196693
José Octavio Alonso-Gamboa, J. M. Russell
Purpose – Scholarly journals from Latin America have aspired to reach an adequate level of visibility and impact not only locally, but also in the international arena. Editors have not been alone in this endeavour, other actors in the information chain have also played their part. This article aims to examine the databases (indexing and abstracting services, directories, catalogues and electronic journal portals) produced in Latin America between 1970 and 2009.Design/methodology/approach – The paper begins with an historical review of the relevant regional initiatives and leads up to an assessment of the present day situation by analysing the contribution made by the databases in the identification, register, visibility, access and use of Latin American scholarly journals.Findings – The creation of Latin American databases has improved communication and knowledge on publications in the region as useful additions to the scant information provided by international sources. The recent adherence to the princi...
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Pub Date : 2012-01-13DOI: 10.1108/00012531211196701
J. A. Sánchez, María Auxilio Medina, O. Starostenko, A. Benítez, Eduardo López Domínguez, Ibañez Rivera, Ricardo Omar Chávez García, Adriana Gabriela, Ramírez De, La Rosa
Purpose – This paper seeks to focus on the problems of integrating information from open, distributed scholarly collections, and on the opportunities these collections represent for research communities in developing countries. The paper aims to introduce OntOAIr, a semi‐automatic method for constructing lightweight ontologies of documents in repositories such as those provided by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI).Design/methodology/approach – OntOAIr uses simplified document representations, a clustering algorithm, and ontological engineering techniques.Findings – The paper presents experimental results of the potential positive impact of ontologies and specifically of OntOAIr on the use of collections provided by OAI.Research limitations/implications – By applying OntOAIr, scholars who frequently spend many hours organizing OAI information spaces will obtain support that will allow them to speed up the entire research cycle and, expectedly, participate more fully in global research communities.Original...
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Pub Date : 2012-01-13DOI: 10.1108/00012531211196710
J. M. Russell, Shirley Ainsworth, Janet Díaz-Aguilar
Purpose – This paper aims to determine to what extent the scientific production and research activities of a group of National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) research institutes in the sciences, social sciences and humanities are visible on the internet with a view to identifying areas where web presence is not optimal so improvements can be made.Design/methodology/approach – The authors do this by analysing the relevant information on their web sites and by comparing institutional listings of scientific production between 2005 and 2006, with papers reported in the international, multidisciplinary online services of the Web of Science and Scopus, as well as in Clase and Periodica which cover production in Latin American journals.Findings – Results indicate general poor visibility of research activities and production in the institutional web sites with only limited access to full text articles. Web sites of the institutes in the sciences score better than those in the humanities and social science...
目的-本文旨在确定一组墨西哥国立自治大学(UNAM)在科学，社会科学和人文科学方面的研究机构的科学生产和研究活动在多大程度上在互联网上可见，以确定网络存在不理想的领域，从而可以进行改进。设计/方法/方法——这组作者通过分析他们的网站上的相关信息，并通过比较2005年至2006年科学产出的机构列表，与web of Science和Scopus的国际多学科在线服务以及Clase和Periodica上报道的拉丁美洲期刊产出的论文进行比较。研究结果-结果表明，在机构网站上，研究活动和成果的可见性普遍较差，只有有限的全文文章。科学研究所的网站得分高于人文和社会科学研究所的网站。
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Pub Date : 2012-01-13DOI: 10.1108/00012531211196729
Juan Voutssas
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarize the current situation of digital preservation and describe the additional main challenges and issues faced in Latin American countries within the framework of the factors of digital preservation.Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews the literature on existing digital information preservation around the world, and then focuses on Latin American countries. It proposes a framework in which to analyze the situation in developing countries, particularly in Latin America, and summarizes the issues in six preservation factors and seven principles of preservation.Findings – The amount of digital information has increased geometrically without proper knowledge, theories, strategies, policies and proceedings to preserve it. Developed countries and regions have started to create this knowledge and know‐how, as well as setting the basis to manage their digital collections within libraries, archives, and other organizations with the aim to preserve them in...
{"title":"Long-term digital information preservation: challenges in Latin America","authors":"Juan Voutssas","doi":"10.1108/00012531211196729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531211196729","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarize the current situation of digital preservation and describe the additional main challenges and issues faced in Latin American countries within the framework of the factors of digital preservation.Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews the literature on existing digital information preservation around the world, and then focuses on Latin American countries. It proposes a framework in which to analyze the situation in developing countries, particularly in Latin America, and summarizes the issues in six preservation factors and seven principles of preservation.Findings – The amount of digital information has increased geometrically without proper knowledge, theories, strategies, policies and proceedings to preserve it. Developed countries and regions have started to create this knowledge and know‐how, as well as setting the basis to manage their digital collections within libraries, archives, and other organizations with the aim to preserve them in...","PeriodicalId":55449,"journal":{"name":"Aslib Proceedings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91320865","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 : 2011-11-22DOI: 10.1108/00012531111187252
V. Z. Gavgani
Purpose – The main aim of the study is to determine whether information therapy (Ix) services are rendered in hospital/medical libraries in Iran and India and to identify the role of librarians in providing health information to patients in the context of information therapy (Ix) services, and the problems and prospects for rendering Ix services in hospital/medical libraries.Design/methodology/approach – An exploratory survey was conducted using a questionnaire to collect data. Librarians were selected by a simple random sampling method from the membership list of the Iranian Medical Library Association and the Medical Library Association of India. In total, 100 questionnaires were distributed through mail and e‐mail to each of the sampling frames. A total of 71 and 84 valid responses were collected from Iran and India, respectively. Simple descriptive statistical analysis was utilized using SPSS version 15.5. A Chi‐square test or Fisher's exact test was used to compare variables.Findings – Information th...
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Pub Date : 2011-11-22DOI: 10.1108/00012531111187234
A. Farajpahlou, Faeze Tabatabai
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the indexing quality and ranking of XML content objects containing Dublin Core and MARC 21 metadata elements in dynamic online information environments by general search engines such as Google and Yahoo!Design/methodology/approach – In total, 100 XML content objects were divided into two groups: those with DCXML elements and those with MARCXML elements. Both groups were published on the web site www.marcdcmi.ir in late July 2009 and were online until June 2010. The web site was introduced to Google and Yahoo! search engines. The indexing quality of metadata elements embedded in the content objects in a dynamic online information environment and their indexing and ranking capabilities were compared and examined.Findings – Google search engine was able to retrieve fully all the content objects through their Dublin Core and MARC 21 metadata elements; Yahoo! search engine, however, did not respond at all. Results of the study showed that all Dublin Core and MARC 2...
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