Text Analysis of Communication Faculty Publications to Identify Research Trends and Interest

Text analysis has been widely used to identify research trends in many disciplines. However, little has been written about using this method to discover a department’s research trends and faculty research interests in the library setting. This study examined 107 faculty publications from the School of Communication at the University of Houston. It analyzed word and phrase frequencies from titles and abstracts using Voyant tools. The analysis was performed on both the department level and the individual faculty level. This article demonstrates a new way for librarians to understand faculty research. The method can be replicated by subject librarians to analyze their own departments.     

Faculty Services in the 21st Century: Evolution and Innovation

SUMMARY

Law faculty in the 21st century present new challenges for law librarians. Traditional services such as document delivery and interlibrary loan are improved. New services are developed to meet the needs of law faculty researching in disciplines other than law and facing a changing environment of publication of legal scholarship. Faculty services in 2000 and 2006 are compared and trends for the future analyzed.     

Effectiveness of a Liaison Program in Meeting Information Needs of College of Pharmacy Faculty

This article describes the creation and implementation of focus groups to evaluate the effectiveness of a health sciences library's liaison program of the College of Pharmacy faculty and to better understand the faculty's information needs in order to design new and improved library services. The liaison services support the teaching and research needs of faculty and students through literature research, classroom teaching, and an extensive library collection of pharmacy literature. Focus group results demonstrated a high level of satisfaction with library liaison services and collections. Opportunities exist for expanded interaction with graduate students and greater marketing of library services to increase faculty awareness of specific library programs.     

How Law Schools Benefit When Librarians Publish,Teach, and Hold Faculty Status

Many nondirector academic law librarians publish and teach legal research classes. Some hold faculty status as well. Law librarians have expertise in the development and delivery of legal research instruction methodologies and are developing a body of literature documenting their efforts to create and share a pedagogy of legal research instruction. Principles of shared faculty governance entitle library faculty to contribute to the development and delivery of a curriculum of legal research instruction. Encouraging law librarian participation in the shared governance of law schools should lead to increasing opportunities for the successful reform of legal education curricula with respect to legal research instruction.     

The Impact of Library Support on Education Faculty Research Productivity: An Exploratory Study

The authors surveyed college and university faculty members in the field of professional education to gauge their perceptions pertaining to the impact of library services on their research. The purpose was to illuminate faculty perceptions in a postsecondary education environment that emphasizes research productivity and requires libraries to provide ever more compelling evidence of their institutional value. Survey results showed that faculty members continue to rely on traditional discovery and collections-based library services, but that additional support for grant activity, data management, intellectual property management, and bibliometric analysis is needed. Implications for transforming library research support are discussed, and areas for further study are proposed.     

Expanding Library Support for Faculty Research in Historically Black Colleges and Universities

ABSTRACT

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance conducted a study to assess library services in support of faculty research. Funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant, and with support from LYRASIS, the study involved two different assessments. The first assessment was of faculty members and their support needs for research. The second assessment was of librarians to understand current capacity and needs related to support libraries provide to faculty. While the HBCU Library Alliance acknowledges that libraries do not have the capacity to address all the challenges to faculty research, the results from this study can serve as a tool to augment the academic infrastructure to support research.     

Aiding Faculty Research Through Convenience in the Interlibrary Loan Department

The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Department at Murray State University has developed convenient methods to aid faculty members in their research. Various means of communication and programs, such as Campus Delivery, Document Delivery, and “Free ILL,” have allowed faculty members to see the wide variety of research resources that are available through interlibrary loan. These methods have been used as key public relations tools to promote library resources and services, and have strengthened the relationship between faculty members and the Interlibrary Loan Department at Murray State University.     

A Librarian Research Consultation Requirement for University Honors Students Beginning Their Theses

Honors students represent a population for whom special library instructional services may be appropriate. The author describes a required librarian research consultation program for honors students starting work on their theses.     

Experiments and Experiences in Liaison Activities: Lessons from New Librarians in Integrating Technology,Face-to-Face,and Follow-Up

As is the case in many university libraries, Albertsons Library at Boise State University, has hired many new librarians to replace retiring librarians. These newer librarians, typically with less than 3 years’ academic library experience, are actively engaged in meeting the opportunities and challenges of subject liaison responsibilities using innovative Web-based tools. This article addresses liaison experiences with faculty-directed blogs, personalized faculty research pages, a wiki-based liaison manual, and the use of LibraryThing as a collection development tool. An overview of these efforts confirms that new technologies are only as good as the face-to-face communication and the follow-up that accompany their implementation. Much of the content in this article was presented at the 2007 and 2008 Acquisitions Institute conferences at Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood, Oregon.     

Information Use in Communication Research: A Citation Analysis of Faculty Publication at the University of Houston

Citation analysis provides valuable information on researchers' information use behavior, and helps librarians make evidence-based collection development decisions. However, no citation analysis of faculty publications in the field of communication has been performed to study communication researchers' information use behavior. This study examined communication faculty publication from 2006 to 2014, analyzing format, age, most frequently cited journals, and their subject areas. Analysis of local holdings provides evidence for the library's role in support of faculty research, and helps librarians articulate the value of libraries.     

Tenure Metrics: Bibliometric Education and Services for Academic Faculty

Bibliometric indicators can assist biomedical researchers in determining the nature of their influence and impact of their research. In recent years, demands by academic faculty for bibliometric analyses have risen considerably at the University at Buffalo (UB). Consequently, library staff at the Health Sciences Library (HSL) began to offer bibliometric services, a series of workshops and consultations to meet faculty requests. This column highlights the implementation, assessment, and challenges of UB HSL's “Tenure Metrics” program.     

基于关键词共现的研究前沿识别方法研究

[目的/意义] 研究分析已有研究前沿识别方法的利弊,建立一套相对比较合理的研究前沿识别方法模型,高效快速地辅助科研管理者和政策制定者识别研究前沿。[方法/过程] 在总结研究前沿的定义、归纳研究前沿特性的基础上界定研究前沿的内涵,进而提出识别研究前沿的两个指标:研究主题年龄和研究主题关注作者数量,构建基于关键词共现的研究前沿识别方法,并在LED领域进行应用分析。[结果/结论] 研究结果表明该方法不仅可以识别研究前沿,而且可以有效地跟踪研究前沿的产生、成长、消退、消失过程。     

编辑距离算法在科研基金名称数据分析中的应用

通过对科研基金名称数据特点和文本数据聚类方法的分析,提出并实现了基于编辑距离算法（Levenshtein Distance）的科研基金名称数据分析方法,该算法首先通过设定相似度方式对科研基金名称数据进行聚类形成数据分组,再对分组数据进行二次聚类计算出组的相似度之和,并据此判定数据聚类中心。该方法已经成功应用于中国医学科学院医学信息研究所的医学文献基金数据处理。     

结合本体与社会化标签的用户动态兴趣建模研究

以博客、即时通讯、社会网络、社群共享、社会化标注等为代表的Web 2.0应用技术,使用户、信息、资源构成关系紧密的web网络。目前将本体应用到社会化标签用户动态兴趣的研究资料极为稀少,尚无法满足平台对用户兴趣精准把控的需求。本研究从此角度出发,探讨兴趣模型的构建方法。在《中国分类主题词表》和《中国图书馆分类法》对词语的约束规则和关系定义的基础上,构建豆瓣读书用户的兴趣标签本体;并根据再现率、覆盖度、热度率指标对标签的兴趣强度、稳定性进行预测实验,确定兴趣的表示形式,以此构建初始兴趣模型,并提出相应的兴趣节点更新流程。本研究提出的基于本体的用户兴趣模型及更新流程在用户兴趣表示的深度及广度上有了一定程度的提升,在标签资源推荐、检索等实践应用上其适用性更强。     

Integrated Design of a Mergers and Acquisitions Finance Course Using a Specialized Trading Lab: A Collaboration Between Management Faculty and the Library

This article describes a collaboration between the Department of Management and the Li Koon Chun Finance Learning Centre in the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre at the University of Toronto Mississauga. It describes the planning and delivery of a new 4th-year course on Mergers and Acquisitions for the 2011 winter term, along with practical tips on how to build successful collaborations between different organizational units within a university. The strong positive student feedback indicates that this faculty–library collaboration was a success. This experience and partnership can be modeled at many other academic institu- tions.     

学科领域生命周期中作者研究兴趣演化分析

[目的/意义]为揭示作者研究兴趣的演化特征,结合生命周期理论和Author-Topic（AT）主题模型提出作者研究兴趣演化分析框架。[方法/过程]收集CNKI数据库中锂离子电池领域的期刊论文数据,通过文献信息增长规律对学科生命周期发展阶段进行划分,利用AT主题模型抽取分析作者-主题、主题-词项以及文档-主题概率分布,通过追踪学科领域生命周期中主题强度和作者研究兴趣度的变化趋势进行演化分析。[结果/结论]实证研究选择核心作者作为分析对象,结果显示国内锂离子电池领域的核心作者的研究兴趣度普遍在成长期达到最大值,对学科发展起到促进作用。核心作者的研究兴趣演化趋势与相应的主题演化趋势一致时,能够引领该研究主题的发展。但也存在一些研究主题,其演化趋势并不同于核心作者的研究兴趣演化趋势,这部分主题往往强度值较大,涉及的研究方向比较广。     

关键词共现方法识别领域研究热点过程中的数据清洗方法

[目的/意义] 针对关键词共现方法识别领域研究热点过程中数据清洗进行理论研究与探索,以辅助科研工作者准确识别领域研究热点。[方法/过程] 在文献调研的基础上,阐述数据清洗的定义和对象,并分析脏数据产生的原因和影响,进而制定数据清洗的步骤和方案,并采用实证研究方法对数据清洗的效果和方案的可行性进行验证。[结果/结论] 研究结果表明该数据清洗方案能够提高研究热点识别的准确性,从而证明了该方案的可行性。     

Academic Library Outreach Through Faculty Partnerships and Web-Based Research Aids

Summary

Electronic library services and myriad online resources are shifting the roles and workloads of academic reference librarians. Reallocation of staffing through a differentiated reference desk service model provides time to author curriculum-centered online research guides and tutorials, bibliographies, and webliographies. The expanding electronic information environment also opens new opportunities for teaching partnerships with university faculty. This article showcases a librarian's collaborative work with a history professor, noting student benefits/reactions and implications for future collaboration.     

Faculty perceptions of librarian value: The moderating relationship between librarian contact,course goals,and students' research skills

Faculty perceptions of librarians' contributions to students' research skills has been linked to frequency of librarian contact in the extant literature. Yet, to date, no studies have tested this hypothesis via a large-scale nationally representative data set. In addition, the hypothesis that faculty perceptions of librarians might also be a function of faculty course goals has yet to be tested. This current study analyzed the most recent Ithaka S + R US Faculty Survey responses to evaluate the relationship between librarian contact, course goals, and faculty perceptions of librarians' contributions. The analyses support the conclusion that perceived frequency of librarian interaction and faculty course goals are both associated with faculty perceptions of librarians' contributions to students' research skill development. Furthermore, this study unveiled a moderating effect between perceived frequency of librarian contact and faculty course goals; that is, one is contingent on the other.     

学部制下学科服务创新模式探索与思考——重庆大学图书馆学科服务的拓展与深化

［目的/意义］面对高校学部制的改革,研究与探索重庆大学图书馆在学部制下的学科服务新模式,以便能更好地为本校学部用户的科研和学习提供更专业的学科信息与知识服务。［方法/过程］ 重庆大学图书馆构建学部制下的学科服务创新模式,以服务学部用户为导向,创建学部制下的学科服务机制,搭建学部制下的学科服务交互平台,并依托该平台重点深化拓展学科服务的五大范畴：信息素质教育、资源建设、科研支撑、学术评价、学者库建设。［结果/结论］重庆大学图书馆学部制下学科服务创新模式的实践显示,该模式能够大范围覆盖学部用户,挖掘用户的隐性需求并提供多层次的创新服务,更好地支撑学部用户科研和教学。