Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Services : The Impacts Of Open Access Journals And E-Journals On A Changing Scenario


Bhaskar. Mukherjee
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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Burlington : : Elsevier Science, , 2010.
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1 online resource (319 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Services: The impacts of Open Access journals and e-journals on a changing scenario; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures and tables; About the author; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Changing scenario of scholarly communication: Journals, e-journals and Open Access journals; Introduction; Scholarly communication; Varieties of electronic/online journals; Debates on paper vs electronic journals; Some issues with e-journals; Open Access (OA) publishing; Some milestones towards Open Access; Flavors of OA. - 6 Web citation analysis of journals' contentsIntroduction; Web citations (citing references); Distribution of articles in various web citation strata by year; Citation life; Citations in various authorship pattern; Highly cited authors; Highly cited subjects; Impact factor; Immediacy index; Summary; Note; References; 7 Scholars' motivation for hyperlinking; Introduction; Scholars' motivation for hyperlinking in terms of language, top level domains, sources, and file formats; Journals' self-citation; Summary; References; 8 Summary; OA journals in LIS - availability. - Exhaustiveness of journalsPage format, availability of hyperlinks, currency, and updating policy of journals; Search facility of OA journals; Miscellaneous issues; Size of OA journals' websites; Summary; References; 5 Quantitative analysis of journals' contents; Introduction; Literature productivity; Literature growth; Publication pattern by journal; Core journals; Authors; Institutional involvement in publication; Pattern of collaborative research; Geographic distribution of contributors; Frequency of international authors; Subjects; Cited references; Summary; References. - Qualitative analysis of OA journals' websitesQuantitative analysis of OA journals' contents; Web citations analysis of journal articles; Impact factor analysis of journals; Scholars' motivation for hyperlinking; Suggestions; Towards further research; Appendix: Criteria of incorporating journals in the most popular databases, indexing/abstracting services; Bibliography; Index. - Quantum of OA journalsSummary; References; 2 Open Access journals in Library and Information Science; Introduction; Language distribution; Top Level Domain distribution; Space and time distribution; Brief outline of selected Open Access journals; Summary; References; 3 Qualitative, quantitative and webometric analysis; Introduction; Qualitative techniques; Quantitative techniques; Webometric techniques; Summary; Notes; References; 4 Qualitative analysis of journals' websites; Introduction; 'Availability', 'Authority', and 'Review Policy' of journals; Scope and coverage of journals. - This book has been written with a view to understand the validity of the perceptions of Open Access (OA) e-journals in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field. Using relevant OA journals this book presents and evaluates journals qualitatively and quantitatively. Over the last three hundred years scholarly journals have been the prime mode of transport in communicating the scholarly research process. However in the last few decades, a changing scenario has been witnessed in their form and format. OA is an innovative idea that attracts a fair amount of support and opposition around the w
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1843346265. - 9781843346265

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