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Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Services: The impacts of open access journals and e-journals on a changing scenario

Bhaskar Mukherjee, Banaras Hindu University, India

 - first ever study to extensively evaluate LIS Journals’ Web site qualitatively by using a newly developed set of criteria
 - LIS OA journals are also evaluated quantitatively
 - counts citations of LIS OA articles in terms of formal citations by using Google Scholar
 - measures the impact factor of LIS OA journals by synchronous and asynchronous approaches
 - scholars’ motivations for creating hyperlinks have been evaluated in terms of TLD, language, file format and sources of citation

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 world because it bridges the gap between digitally divided scholars by solving the pricing and permission crises that have imbalanced the scholarly communication process. Some scholars are of the opinion that OA has led to a chaotic environment where anyone can publish anything. Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Services records, in detail, the impact by accessing the journals’ web site qualitatively and quantitatively in measuring the important elements such as articles, authors, countries, subjects, cited references. Finally the book calculates the impact factor using synchronous and asynchronous approaches.

ISBN 1 84334 626 5
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 626 5
July 2010
318 pages  234 x 156mm  paperback  
£49.50 / US$85.00 / €60.00

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About the author

Bhaskar Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. As a young science graduate and Doctorate in the field of Library & Information Science, Dr. Mukherjee has been serving this profession for the last 14 years at various positions. He has the exposure of various theoretical and technical aspects of library and information science teaching and working experience with various types of LIS centres. His publication history includes over thirty research articles in various journals like JASIST, Scientometrics, LISR, IFLA, and the Journal of Academic Librarianship. He is the recipient of Raja Rammohun Roy Foundation award for contributing the best article, Prabhakar Rao Gold Medal Award for positioning First Class in his BSc. (Geology) and UTD Gold Medal Award for positioning First Class in his Bachelors of LIS and MLIS. He currently serves as a reviewer for various journals in the field. His research interests are in Webometrics, Open Access, Information Storage and Retrieval, Knowledge Organisation.

Contents

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
 - Quantum of OA journals
 - Summary
 - References

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

Qualitative, quantitative and webometric analysis
 - Introduction
 - Qualitative techniques
 - Quantitative techniques
 - Webometric techniques
 - Summary
 - Notes
 - References

Qualitative analysis of journals’ websites
 - Introduction
 - ‘Availability’, ‘Authority’, and ‘Review Policy’ of journals
 - Scope and coverage of journals
 - Exhaustiveness of journals
 - Page format, availability of hyperlinks, currency, and updating policy of journals
 - Search facility of OA journals
 - Miscellaneous issues
 - Size of OA journals’ websites
 - Summary
 - References

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

Web citation analysis of journals’ contents
 - Introduction
 - 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

Scholars’ motivation for hyperlinking
 - Introduction
 - Scholars’ motivation for hyperlinking in terms of language, top level domains, sources, and fi le formats
 - Journals’ self-citation
 - Summary
 - References

Summary
 - OA journals in LIS – availability
 - Qualitative analysis of OA journals’ websites
 - Quantitative analysis of OA journals’ contents
 - Web citations analysis of journal articles
 - Impact factor analysis of journals
 - Scholars’ motivation for hyperlinking
 - Suggestions
 - Towards further research