Some numbers reported from assignment 1:

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Some numbers reported from assignment 1

• 1/2
• 1/3
• Use of library resources
• 8
• 4
• 2

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INLS 180 Human Information Interaction

• Session 20 Scholarly Publication

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Cycle of Scholarly Publishing

• Process by which the benefits of research are
  published and disseminated
• Stakeholders include researchers, publishers,
  libraries, and various populations of users
• Each stage in the process may produce products
  that can be shared

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Idea may be shared with colleagues or
other researchers as it takes shape. Feedback
may reinforce and refine ideas. Formal proposal
may result.
Early results of research, refined idea presented
at conferences, documented in proceedings
Starts with an idea or theory Or perhaps to test
an existing theory
Results of research formally and
carefully described in a peer- reviewed journal,
reaching a broader audience. Preprints may be
shared in advance.
Ideas become more widely known and accepted and
appear in monographs where the audience may be
broader, more general
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The down side?

• Quality of the manuscript/ idea has been
  improved. Yet what are the down side?

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Bibliometric Research

• a research method used in LIS utilizing
  quantitative analysis and statistics to describe
  patterns of publication within a given field or
  body of literature used to
• determine the influence of an author
• describe the relationship between two or more
  authors or works
• identify categories of a discipline
• Major bibliometric laws
• Bradfords law describes the core journals in a
  field
• Lotkas law describes the frequency of
  publication by authors in a field
• Zipfs law is used to predict the frequency of
  words in a text

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Citation Analysis

• Citation analysis when one author cites
  another, a link is created between authors,
  scholarly works, journals, fields, nations, etc.
  Used commonly to determine an authors impact.
  (tenure promotion)
• Co-citation coupling when 2 papers are cited by
  the same paper. Significant when it happens
  often, suggesting a relationship.
• Bibliographic coupling links 2 papers that cite
  the same paper.

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Internet publishing

• Variety in types of electronic publishing and
  policies
• Optimizing impact the goal
• Trustworthiness Publicity Accessibility
• Technological influence on Scholarly publication
• Pros and cons?
• Economic and cultural factors
• especially in international situations

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Internet publishing

• V ariety in types
• O ptimizing impact the goal
• T echnological influence
• E conomic and cultural factors