Advent Of Electronic Resources Research Articles

Doctoral Dissertations in Chemistry and Physics: A Longitudinal Study

ABSTRACT A bibliometric analysis was conducted over the bibliographies of chemistry and physics doctoral dissertations between 1970 and 2020 to ascertain what types of documents are cited, average ages of cited references and overall changes of dissertation references that have occurred with the advent of electronic resources. The study reviewed 50 dissertations for each discipline with 10 dissertations from each decade (n = 100). Results measured 12,065 total references and found that the median age of journals increased in both chemistry and physics, doubling from 2010 to 2020. Only a few dissertation studies have been done on a longitudinal base to evaluate changes in publication trends. Similarities between the two disciplines with increases in the percentages of journal articles and declines in the number of books, other dissertations, and material types are calculated.

Usage pattern analysis of academic articles from Chinese journals

Usage metrics have become increasingly popular in scientometric with the advent of electronic resources. While most current researches relied on the usage data retrieved from English publishers. In this study, the usage data was extended to Chinese publishers. We collected and analyzed the usage data of six well-known Chinese OA (Open Access) journals in different fields from journals’ official websites and Chinese Academic Journals Full-text Database (CJFD) in China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). It was found that websites’ information architecture affected usage pattern. “Progressive rule”-based site guided users to view full-text articles more than download them and “parallel rule”-based site guided users to download full-text articles more than view them. CNKI proved its popularity in China. Although CNKI is a non-OA platform and has a time delay in indexing full-text articles, but they still attracted a large number of users. PDF tended to be the preferred format than HTML in most journals in the study. Also, CNKI citation were more skewedly distributed than usage data in most journals and it showed strong or moderate correlation between CNKI citation and CNKI full-text downloads in most journals. Finally, it depicted that usage data of most articles was at their peak around pagination month and at the bottom at very earlier or later months.

Digital vs Print resources at African University Institutions: A Discussion Document

Digital resources and the speed and ease with which researchers anywhere can now access vast amounts of information have transformed the nature of the research process. The advent of electronic resources and digital libraries and repositories has also dramatically changed the function of academic libraries in terms of organization, service delivery, and collection development, with much information and many resources now accessed online. Nowadays, librarians and information professionals are expected to provide services to library users who increasingly demand instant access to information on multiple digital platforms.The attraction of electronic resources and the archiving of these resources, is easy to understand: they are eco-friendly, time and cost saving, offer multi-access, round the clock availability, and provide a facility to access resources without requiring a physical presence in the library.

Building Your Licensing and Negotiation Skills Toolkit

The advent of electronic resources brought about the need for license agreements between libraries and publishers. Many librarians today are new to licensing and negotiating with publishers, or have received limited training and education. Based on her years of licensing and negotiation experience, Clair Dygert of the Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) provided librarians with practical advice and tools for working with licenses and negotiating with publishers, as well as encouragement for entering into these new areas. She included examples taken directly from FLVC’s licensing guidelines and negotiation proposals and encouraged attendees to use those documents in creating their own local documents. She also drew on the book Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury to describe principled bargaining as the most effective and constructive method of negotiation.

Multimedia Data Mining and its Integration in Information Sector and Foundation: An Overview

Information and Communication Technologies are one of the important component and toll. Virtually, the advent of Electronic resources and similar foundation use in Information Foundation and similar foundation has brought about significant changes in storage and communication of information. Data mining process consist of several process and stages, which are related to each other and interactive. This is the way of mining or extraction of data from the Database or Dataset. Extraction of Data with multimedia nature such as audio, video, images, text may be called as Multimedia Data Mining. In Information Foundation, Data Mining has wonderful role and importance. This paper is talks about Multimedia Information and Data Mining and its characteristics. Paper also talks about role and need of Multimedia Data Mining in Information and Similar Foundation.

Electronic Serials Cataloging Workshop (SCCTP)

Serials cataloging is a difficult specialty to master, often requiring the cataloger to grapple with changes in title, frequency, numbering, and whether or not a given title is current, ceased, or resurrected. Until relatively recently, one of the few constants about serial issues was that they were delivered in a physical medium, usually in print, but sometimes also in microform. The advent of electronic resources adds another layer of complexity to an already amorphous type of material by rendering it virtually. The Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program's (SCCTP's) Electronic Serials Cataloging Workshop is intended to help catalogers new to the challenges presented by electronic serials by providing a comprehensive overview of CONSER (Cooperative ONline SERials) practice; the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, second edition (AACR2); and MARC 21 tagging specific to electronic serials.

Historians and Their Information Sources

This article reports on a survey of historians and a citation analysis undertaken to revisit the questions treated in Margaret F. Stieg’s 1981 article published in College & Research Libraries. It examines which materials historians consider to be the most important and how they discover them. Their attitudes toward and use of electronic materials were also studied. Many characteristics of historians’ information needs and use have not changed in a generation: informal means of discovery like book reviews and browsing remain important, as does the need for comprehensive searches. Print continues to be the principal format. What has changed is that the advent of electronic resources has increased historians’ use of catalogs and indexes in their efforts to identify appropriate primary and secondary sources of information.