Document delivery and resource sharing: A collaborative consortium approach by Indian agricultural libraries

Indian Agricultural Libraries are exploring new ways and collaborations to fullfil the information need of their patrons through resource sharing and delivering documents using online platform accessible 24X7. The article discusses Inter Lendig and Document Delivery Services (DDR) facilitated through a collaborative consortium Journal Gateway called CeRA under Indian National Agricultural Research System. CeRA the (Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture) provides a platform for online acess to e-journals and inter lending. DDR Services has been established to share resources subscribed by individual libraries as well as consortium journals using the web portal. The article also discusses of the use of DDR services by patrons of the first Indian Agricultural University in the country. Reports that the student community were most active in using the platform for inter library loan and document request in comparison to the faculty researchers who were less dependent on document from other libraries.     

Penetration of Nigerian predatory biomedical open access journals 2007–2012: a bibliometric study

This paper presents the bibliometric characteristics of 32 biomedical open access journals published by Academic Journals and International Research Journals – the two Nigerian publishers in Jeffery Beall's list of 23 predatory open access publishers in 2012. Data about the journals and the authors of their articles were collected from the websites of the publishers, Google Scholar and Web of Science. As at December 2012, the journals had together produced a total of 5,601 papers written by 5,599 authors, and received 12,596 citations. Authors from Asia accounted for 56.79% of the publications; those from Africa wrote 28.35% while Europe contributed 7.78%. Authors from Africa accounted for 18.25% of the citations these journals received, and this is about one‐third the number of citations by authors in Asia (54.62%). At country level, India ranks first in the top 10 citer countries, while Nigeria, the host country of the journals, ranked eighth. More in‐depth studies are required to develop further information about the journals such as how much scientific information the journals contain, as well as the science literacy of the authors and the editorial.     

我国图书馆联盟研究论文定量分析(2006～2010年)

文章对《中国学术期刊全文数据库》2006年～2010年5年间399篇有关图书馆联盟的研究论文进行了定量分析,对论文的发表时间、作者、发表期刊、论文主题、论文合著率等进行了分析,对我国图书馆联盟的研究现状进行了总结,并指出了目前我国在该领域研究中存在的不足。     

从SCOAP3模式看图书馆资源建设的范式转变

介绍SCOAP3资助联盟将高能物理学术论文转为开放出版的基本模式、内容范围和运行机制,指出它所代表的开放出版资助方式更适合数字网络时代,能更有效、更经济地保障知识获取,强调这种模式同样服务于图书馆保障信息获取的本质目标,并为图书馆扩展信息服务、提高自身地位和作用提供新的空间。     

中国科学院学术会议文献开放出版研究

本文分析了学术会议文献开放出版的优势,结合中国科学院科学数据、学位论文、科技成果、ARP、科技期刊开放出版等数字资源的相关研究,提出了建立中国科学院学术会议文献开放出版系统的设想,借鉴开放期刊的运行模式,以CC协议方式实现系统资源的版权保护,完善中国科学院的数字资源体系。     

Selling to the BRIC — Russia: scholarly e‐products and the Russian market

We present the history, a present‐day analysis and perspectives of the market for scholarly e‐resources (e‐journals, e‐books, etc) in Russia. Our study is based on 10 years' experience of the Russian national library consortium NEICON, which is one of the major players in the market. Indicators and trends of the economics, human resources, and scientific output of Russian science are presented. The NEICON consortium activities are described. The perspectives, peculiarities, and practicalities of entering the Russian market are outlined, as well as what a new publisher entrant might expect to achieve.     

论开放存取出版对科学信息交流和利用的影响

开放存取出版已经成为国际学术界、出版界、图书馆学界共同关注的重要话题。本文探讨开放存取出版带来的新的科学信息交流和利用模式,阐述它对科学信息交流和利用活动参与者的影响。     

集群化背景下科技期刊专刊专栏组稿路径实践探索

专刊专栏是科技期刊获取优秀稿源、提升期刊学术质量和影响力、增强期刊学术引领能力和话语权的重要抓手。随着科技期刊集群化发展,期刊集群为专刊专栏组稿带来了优质学术资源。本文以清华大学出版社期刊中心信息科学刊群专刊专栏组稿实践为例,阐述了集群化背景科技期刊专刊专栏组稿路径,总结了刊群资源互通互利、协同发展的重要作用。     

科技期刊增强科普功能建设面临的问题与路径思考

在新媒体时代,公众阅读兴趣与习惯发生变化,科技期刊若要进一步发展,则可以从增强科普功能的角度来探索有效路径。本文通过分析科技期刊增强科普功能的意义与优势,阐述当前科技期刊所要承担的社会责任。通过分析科技期刊在科普功能建设方面的不足,提出了相应的建设思路:突发事件时进行应急科普;对专业论著进行科普化解读;开设科普专栏;发行科普增刊;充分利用新媒体平台的功能;采用视觉化的科普方式;获取国家政策支持——以此实现科技期刊的经济效益与社会效益的双丰收。     

Use of UGC-Infonet E-resources by Social Science Academics in Indian Universities: An Evaluation Study

UGC is providing access to scholarly electronic resources (e-resources) to Indian universities through the UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium. Access to subscribed e-resources is being provided free of cost to member universities. The whole program is funded by the UGC and executed by the INFLIBNET Centre. Now, the UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium is in its 11th year and it has been expected that privileged academicians are utilizing available e-resources extensively and optimally. In this paper an effort is being made to assess, how social science faculty working in Indian universities have been using e-resources, what are the problems they are facing in accessing them, and what are the efforts made by INFLIBNET to spread awareness about such an ambitious initiative of UGC among social science faculty members. This paper also highlights some important issues with respect to use, acceptance and planning of this consortium.     

国外学术期刊OA出版论文处理费(APC)调查

调查了国际知名出版商Elsevier、Springer、Taylor & Francis、Wiley-Blackwell、NPG和国际知名OA期刊社BMC、PLoS、Hindawi、MDPI等OA期刊的论文处理费(APC)的收费标准.2015年度主要商业性出版社完全OA期刊的APC主要分布在1 000 ～5 000美元之间,混合型OA期刊的APC相对高些,分布较窄,基本在3 000美元左右.以瑞士MDPI公司为案例,分析该公司OA期刊的创办、期刊载文量、期刊经营、APC收取策略等.还简要讨论APC和OA出版机制,以期为我国的科研管理部门和期刊管理部门提供参考.     

Measuring the Impact of Gold and Green Open Access

Using data from Web of Science, this research investigates how physical science researchers funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research complied with its open access policy, and compares the citation counts of articles published through gold and green models.It was found that, for articles published between 2008 and 2015, 9% were available through gold open access routes and 13% were available through green routes; most were not openly accessible. Citation rates were comparable for green open access and non-open access articles, but citation rates for gold open access articles were lower. After controlling for publication year, citation rates of gold, green, and non-open access articles were comparable. Among gold open access articles, citation rates were highest for open access journals with article processing charges, but after controlling for publication year, articles published in hybrid journals, followed by those in open access journals with article processing charges, achieved the highest citation rates. Articles published in free open access journals had the lowest citation rates. The results suggest that green open access is the most economical approach to comply with open access policies, and that it provides researchers with at least as much research impact as gold open access.     

近10年我国图书馆联盟发展现状与对策研究

通过对1999—2011年发表的图书馆联盟的相关论文进行核心期刊分布、被引频次和下载频次、关键词、研究层次定量分析发现:图书馆联盟的相关论文多发表于图书情报学专业的核心期刊,技术应用研究少于理论研究,等等。因此,我国图书馆联盟应继续寻求政府的支持,积极实施知识管理,尽快成立专门的联盟管理理事会,提高各成员馆间的信息交流水平,营造积极、健康和统一的联盟文化,以提升我国图书情报机构信息服务的质量和综合实力。     

对开放科学目录收录期刊可开放存取情况的调查

开放科学目录收录了迄今为止几乎所有的开放存取期刊。通过对该目录的调查发现,目前开放存取期刊的发展现状并不像人们宣传的那样好,有些期刊只向部分地区开放,有些则须经过一段时滞后用方能获取全文。开放存取期刊的发展尚处于起步阶段,并没有达到黄如花教授所讲的可以与传统期刊相抗衡的地步。本调查研究显示了目前开放存取期刊的整体状况是“部分开放存取期刊多,完全开放存取期刊少;延时开放存取期刊多,即时开放存取期刊少”。由于部分OA和延时OA存在着诸多缺陷,这给我们的启示是,图书馆在进行文献资源建设时既要利用免费的开放存取期刊以充实馆藏,又不能轻易放弃纸质传统期刊的订购。