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Open Access journals and scholarship share a new relationship as content has transitioned from a subscription commodity to rights management. As federal governments encourage and increasingly mandate sponsored research outputs be freely and widely available at the time of publication sustainability of such models led to varied ways of how OA could be made viable. Recent practices suggest successes and trials in changing the footprint of collections. Libraries accustomed to acquiring content for perpetual ownership, and those that created institutional repositories to allow authors when they didn’t retain intellectual property could distribute and repurpose their works are but examples of how collections have changed. Some disciplines expanded the preprint culture. Publishers must rethink whether to publish them after peer review. OA contributes to increased diversity as authors in developing countries and in emerging disciplines share their research findings as libraries eagerly seek this material. Disciplinary differences advance and restrict the OA marketplace and business models explore how to communicate to the next generation of authors what the future of scholarly publishing will be. Costs of knowledge creation suggest different models of transformative agreements and positions libraries and their academic affiliates with new options for submission and publication with publishers trying to offer social, economic, and sustainable incentives to maintain a competitive publishing landscape while influencing and responding to author behaviors. Instead of renewing subscriptions, many libraries seek strategies that offer how to demonstrate impact and encourage new business practices. This paper explores how libraries and publishers will communicate this evolution anticipating what changes will likely define library collections in the future. Speculating about what role transformative agreements have in libraries as they rethink the focus of collections is uncertain.

This paper examines the potential impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the press and in the production of books and academic journals. LLMs, such as OpenAI’s GPT-3, are trained on massive text corpora and can predict the next word in a given context through probabilistic methods. They have demonstrated autonomy and versatility in a variety of tasks, including question answering, translation, summarization, text classification, and code generation from natural language instructions. The paper discusses the trends, opportunities, and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) and LLMs in the publishing industries, as well as the existing research on these topics. It also conducts experiments and operations with GPT-3 to explore its potential benefits and limitations, and offers reflections on the medium- and long-term impact of LLMs in those sectors.

This paper examines the potential impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the press and in the production of books and academic journals. LLMs, such as OpenAI’s GPT-3, are trained on massive text corpora and can predict the next word in a given context through probabilistic methods. They have demonstrated autonomy and versatility in a variety of tasks, including question answering, translation, summarization, text classification, and code generation from natural language instructions. The paper discusses the trends, opportunities, and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) and LLMs in the publishing industries, as well as the existing research on these topics. It also conducts experiments and operations with GPT-3 to explore its potential benefits and limitations, and offers reflections on the medium- and long-term impact of LLMs in those sectors.

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Retorik dan penghasilan buku ilmiah yang diterbitkan oleh penerbit di unversiti awam dan institusi kerajaan atau Majlis Penerbitan Ilmiah Malaysia (MAPIM) boleh menjadi strategi penulisan dalam proses penerbitan buku ilmiah tetapi tidak mendapat perhatian umum. Malah, kajian tentang retorik dan penerbitan buku ilmiah di negara ini, masih kurang dilakukan dan kurang diberikan tumpuan walaupun genre ilmiah ini berfungsi merekodkan kepakaran dalam bidang yang khusus untuk dikongsikan sebagai keperluan golongan pembaca. Justeru, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti jenis-jenis retorik yang diaplikasikan dalam buku ilmiah berbahasa Melayu yang ada kaitannya dengan strategi penulisan dan menganalisis pengaplikasian retorik dalam buku ilmiah tersebut berpandukan Teori Retorik Moden oleh Enos & Brown (1993). Kaedah pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan membuat pemerhatian secara langsung di Penerbit MAPIM bagi meninjau secara langsung realiti penerbitan buku ilmiah yang berpotensi dipilih sebagai sampel kajian di penerbit ahli MAPIM yang terlibat. Kemudian, kaedah analisis teks digunakan untuk membuat pencerakinan dan analisis mendalam terhadap jenis ayat yang mengandungi pengaplikasian retorik dalam (2) buah buku ilmiah berbahasa Melayu terpilih. Seterusnya, (2) orang penulis buku ilmiah terbitan MAPIM ditemu bual sebagai informan bagi tujuan pengukuhan data analisis. Dapatan kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa buku ilmiah (1) telah mencatat sebanyak 59 (36%) pengaplikasian retorik Deskriptif, 80 (50%) retorik Eksposisi, 21 (13%) retorik Argumentatif dan 2 (1%) retorik Persuasif. Buku ilmiah (2) mencatat sebanyak 152 (60%) pengaplikasian retorik Deskriptif, 52 (21%) retorik Argumentatif, 41 (16%) retorik Eksposisi dan 8 (3%) retorik Persuasif. Dapatan kajian ini selaras dengan objektif utama penerbit ahli MAPIM untuk memastikan produk pengembangan kesarjanaan golongan sasaran dapat ditawarkan melalui buku ilmiah yang berkualiti.

Retorik dan penghasilan buku ilmiah yang diterbitkan oleh penerbit di unversiti awam dan institusi kerajaan atau Majlis Penerbitan Ilmiah Malaysia (MAPIM) boleh menjadi strategi penulisan dalam proses penerbitan buku ilmiah tetapi tidak mendapat perhatian umum. Malah, kajian tentang retorik dan penerbitan buku ilmiah di negara ini, masih kurang dilakukan dan kurang diberikan tumpuan walaupun genre ilmiah ini berfungsi merekodkan kepakaran dalam bidang yang khusus untuk dikongsikan sebagai keperluan golongan pembaca. Justeru, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti jenis-jenis retorik yang diaplikasikan dalam buku ilmiah berbahasa Melayu yang ada kaitannya dengan strategi penulisan dan menganalisis pengaplikasian retorik dalam buku ilmiah tersebut berpandukan Teori Retorik Moden oleh Enos & Brown (1993). Kaedah pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan membuat pemerhatian secara langsung di Penerbit MAPIM bagi meninjau secara langsung realiti penerbitan buku ilmiah yang berpotensi dipilih sebagai sampel kajian di penerbit ahli MAPIM yang terlibat. Kemudian, kaedah analisis teks digunakan untuk membuat pencerakinan dan analisis mendalam terhadap jenis ayat yang mengandungi pengaplikasian retorik dalam (2) buah buku ilmiah berbahasa Melayu terpilih. Seterusnya, (2) orang penulis buku ilmiah terbitan MAPIM ditemu bual sebagai informan bagi tujuan pengukuhan data analisis. Dapatan kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa buku ilmiah (1) telah mencatat sebanyak 59 (36%) pengaplikasian retorik Deskriptif, 80 (50%) retorik Eksposisi, 21 (13%) retorik Argumentatif dan 2 (1%) retorik Persuasif. Buku ilmiah (2) mencatat sebanyak 152 (60%) pengaplikasian retorik Deskriptif, 52 (21%) retorik Argumentatif, 41 (16%) retorik Eksposisi dan 8 (3%) retorik Persuasif. Dapatan kajian ini selaras dengan objektif utama penerbit ahli MAPIM untuk memastikan produk pengembangan kesarjanaan golongan sasaran dapat ditawarkan melalui buku ilmiah yang berkualiti.

This article analyses the review, acceptance and publication dates of a sample of 21,890 articles from 326 Ibero-American scientific journals from all subject areas and countries included in the Latindex Catalogue 2.0 and published between 2018 and 2020 (freely available as an open access dataset). The aim is to discover evaluation and publication times. The evaluation process takes a median of 110 days, the publication process, a median of 82 days, and the whole process, a median of 224 days. Statistical differences are found according to periodicity, subject areas, countries, existence of a printed version and article type (Call for Papers or General articles). From the data we find that the delay in publication is longer than publishers themselves report to the DOAJ. STEM areas present the most similarity in publication patterns, having a higher number of evaluation days (Ed) than publication days (Pd); Arts and Humanities present the opposite pattern, with a higher Pd than Ed. In the case of Social Sciences, the times are similar. General articles and Call for Papers articles differ in terms of Ed, but not Pd, indicating that Call for Papers revisions are faster.

An evaluative study of use of military library by military personnel is of utmost importance for libraries to positively impact on human race collective security. The ability to make informed and correct decision is in correlation with the availability of rich information sources, which is the stronghold of libraries worldwide. 2 Mechanized Division, Adekunle Fajuyi Cantonment, Oyo state Nigeria is used as a case study to unravel this phenomenon, to understand the type of information required by military personnel and use the outcome as a template to run efficient military library services. This research was conducted to ascertain if military personnel use their libraries or not. If not, find out the factors responsible for it and offer solutions. The research instruments used are questionnaire and observation. The gathered data revealed that time constrain, nature of the military personnel job, unawareness of the benefits that could be derived from the library, lack of interest, non-availability of new and current information materials, location of some units within the cantonment are responsible for the ineffective library use. Therefore, there is still much to be done for military libraries to reach its full potentials and the responsibility lies on the librarians within this base library to be proactive, create awareness and diversify the information sources to reflect the current trends in information technology.

This research work investigated the record management and services delivery of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Delta state chapter. The study was carried out by using descriptive survey research design. Three specific objectives, three research questions were formulated to guide the study. The population of the study comprises 452 staff of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Delta state chapter, with sample size of 213 staff. Questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. Data was analysed with descriptive statistics. The findings of the study revealed that INEC make use of online storage, such as website/webpage and email, and the use of online storage help to preserve record for long period, ensure timely retrieval of information and contribute greatly to effective service delivery. The study revealed that INEC employed degree holders in record management and library and information science to manage their record, and use of degree holders in record management department help in effective service delivery. Also, the study revealed that INEC have existing weeding policy, and existing weeding policy help the record keeper to know the record to dispose and those to keep, and this promotes effective service delivery. Based on the findings, recommendations were made as follows: that management of INEC should acquire more of the latest electronics gadget for record storage purposes. That more graduate from the field of library and information science and record management should be employed to handles INEC record. Also, that, record management staff should be trained periodically to acquire new skill to manage the organizational record for effective service delivery.

This study investigates the awareness and use of intellectual freedom policy in academic libraries in Ilorin metropolis. To accomplish its objectives, it raises four research questions while its scope is restricted to academic libraries within Ilorin metropolis. It uses descriptive survey research method to examine eleven academic libraries in Ilorin metropolis. Out of 195 staff of the selected academic libraries, 55 staff are purposively sampled as respondents among the academic librarians and staff of acquisition department of the selected academic libraries. Questionnaire titled “Awareness and Use of Intellectual Freedom Policy in Academic Libraries” is designed to obtain data from the academic librarians and staff of acquisition department of the libraries. The findings reveal that the respondents are aware of intellectual freedom, intellectual freedom is somewhat important to collection development of the academic libraries and also show that intellectual freedom concerns freedom of expression, access to information, confidentiality and privacy, while censorship and internet filtering are the major challenge to intellectual freedom in academic libraries.

This paper argues for the availability and accessibility of EIRs in academic libraries as predictors of academic performance of students of tertiary institutions. It raises the problem that the growing influx of EIRs has revolutionised academic libraries' operations and led to radical changes in libraries' services by making information available to students in new ways to support scholarly publications and identifies e-journals, e-books, e-theses and dissertations, databases, CDs/VCDs/DVDs, etc., as EIRs that can be made available and accessible to boost students' academic performance. It outlines space economy, ease of access through numerous metadata, search engines, online catalogues (OPAC), and protocols, cost-effectiveness, unhindered access and simultaneous use of EIRs as the benefits of EIRs; while it also discusses poor funding of academic libraries, coat of purchasing electronic gadgets, poor students' searching skills, infrastructure decadence and unreliable power supply as the factors Inhibiting academic libraries from making EIRs available and accessible to students. It recommends among others that academic libraries should be adequately funded by management so that they can be purchasing the necessary electronic gadgets needed for the availability and accessibility of EIRs to students.

The study aims at investigating the awareness and usage of electronic resources among undergraduates of Fountain University, Osun State, Nigeria. Three research questions were answered and three null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and systematic sampling technique was used to select 1000 undergraduates. Simple percentage and frequency table was used to analyse the research questions, while Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) was used for testing the hypotheses. The results obtained revealed that undergraduates of Fountain University are quite aware and highly use electronic information resources. The study also reported that undergraduates in Fountain University are skilled in the use of electronic information resources. Based on the findings, the study concluded that electronic information resources are essential tools for empowering undergraduate in Fountain University, Osun State, Nigeria.

This paper examined the awareness and usage of e-resources by the faculty members of Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College. The present study is based on primary data collected from the faculty members working in the various departments of Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College. This study is conducted using a total number sample of 277 Faculty Members were randomly selected from thirteen departments. The data were collected by using empirical method of the questionnaire. The study aims to analyze the awareness and purpose of e-resources, frequency of using e-resources, Utilization and Satisfaction level of e-resources. It is found that the majority of faculty members are highly aware on IEEE 218 (86.17%), Springer Open 128 (50.59%) and O’reilly Open book and Free Engineering books 91 (35.97%) and further found that majority of 203 (80.24%) faculty members fully satisfied with about NPTEL resources.

Purpose In this study, we conducted quantitative analysis of 1706 scholarly literature published in Journal of Documentation during the period of 1970 to 2019 (fifty years) using a series of scientometric indicators. Annual scientific production, most local cited sources, the ranking of authors; profiles, contributions, correlation, collaboration and authorship pattern, most contributed countries, most cited articles, frequently used search terms/keywords, and the legend of historiographic mapping were analysed in detail to measure the impact of the source. Design/methodology/approach We used the Scopus database for retrieving the desired sample data. In total, 1,706 numbers of publications records were considered for the literature analysis considering their relevancy. Biblioshiny data visualization tool is used to create the various maps. Findings The present study found that annual scientific production and average citations constantly have had an uptrend. The journal's had tremendous impact with an h-index of 80, with a g-index of 148, total citations of 37,161 within the studied period. Although Bawden D contributed the highest number of research papers (n=78), the work published by Hjørland B received the highest citations. Lotka's Law reveals that about 75.04% of the authors (1319 authors) have one publication, and approximately 12.73% of the authors (225 authors) have two publications. The United Kingdom was the dominant country in terms of number of papers and citation count whereas University of Sheffield topped with 128 publications. The thematic map consists of eleven clusters and ‘information retrieval’ found to be the largest cluster comprehending 56 subthemes occurring 995 times. Co-citation network identified four clusters with revealing Wilson TD as the most cited authors. The study also indicates the most collaborative authors are from the United Kingdom. Research limitations/implications The study exclusively deals with 1732 published research lit

Multimedia has a significant role in communicating the information and a large amount of multimedia repositories make the browsing, retrieval and delivery of video contents. For higher education, using video as a tool for learning and teaching through multimedia application is a considerable promise. Many universities adopt educational systems where the teacher lecture is video recorded and the video lecture is made available to students with minimum post-processing effort. Since each video may cover many subjects, it is critical for an e-Learning environment to have content-based video searching capabilities to meet diverse individual learning needs. The present paper reviewed 120+ core research article on the content based retrieval of the lecture video repositories hosted on cloud by government academic and research organization of India.

A web online public access (OPAC) is an online interface of a library that allows users to make transactions online globally. This study aimed to explore the online library services offered by university libraries of Lahore, the level of user’s satisfaction with web OPACs and to compare the users’ satisfaction with web OPACs public and private sector university libraries in Lahore Punjab. The data was collected on self-developed and self-administrated peer reviewed questionnaire from 16 university library users via survey. The study revealed that both public and private sector university libraries provide basic and advance searching options, different types of search filters and Multifactor services, the t-test results at combined level factor found no significant different (sig=.000) in level of uses’ satisfaction with web OPACs of public and private sector university libraries of Lahore Punjab.

Knowledge cannot be separated from the people holding it and the best way to make it appreciated is to present it in a way that represents the beliefs, customs and norms of its origin. This submission makes this paper attempts to find the perfect word between indigenisation and decolonisation as a way of developing Indigenous Librarianship in Nigeria. It settles for indigenisation because indigenisation focuses on the exploitation of the native, local resources to create, share, transform and retain knowledge. It ponders on the historical antecedents of Librarianship in Nigeria to proof that the Nigerian library practices were purely nurtured in the waters of colonialism. It argues that since the practices of Librarianship within any culture are not universal, though they may be normative within that culture, the practices of Indigenous Librarianship can be used for reflecting culturally conditioned notions of the Nigerian IK and its representations through the Nigerian Librarianship. It suggests bibliographic citation and compilation, cataloguing and classification and library automation as areas of Librarianship that can be indigenised. It concludes that libraries thrived in societies where their practices are hinged on IK and recommends that Nigerian librarians should devise a system of describing, codifying and representing local knowledge and its channels of communication in a way that depicts their original contents as against the artificial description and representation imposed on them by the foreign subject organisation and document description schemes.

The paper explains the importance of research for development of society. It describes meaning of plagiarism, types of plagiarism and also discussed commercial and open-source plagiarism software which are available in the market. More importantly it talks about Google-Originality check process, Its Advantages and disadvantages of originality check, Importance of plagiarism in research or correlation of plagiarism and research methodology and its implementation and use for research integrity in higher educational institutes. This paper will be useful for teachers, students and librarians for testing the plagiarism report and making the research integrity. This is a best tool for the beginners.

The paper examined the information and communication technology (ICT) tools for dissemination of covid19 information: a usage analysis among information professionals in Kwara state. The descriptive survey design was adopted. The population of the study comprised of 120 information professionals in Kwara State. Four (4) research questions guided this study. The total enumerative sampling technique was used, and questionnaire was used to collect data for this study. Data was analyzed with descriptive statistics such as simple percentages, frequency count, mean and standard deviation. The findings revealed that most of the information professional use ICT tools for dissemination of covid-19 information daily. Majority of the respondents agreed that laptops and social media are most ICT tools used for dissemination of covid-19 information, follow by desktops, printers, scanners, software programs, conference tools and data projectors. The findings also revealed that ICT help information professional to provide and share information quickly. Based on these findings, epileptic power supply is the most challenges encounters by information professional in getting information about covid-19 followed by poor infrastructure, inadequate funding, low band width and lack of search skills.

The present study analyzed 441 global publications on library management and administration indexed in Scopus database. Very few bibliometric studies were found on varies aspects of library management but not as whole library management and administration which made author to analyze globally. Methods and Martials: The data was analyzed using biblioshiny app, presented three fold relation viz, authors, countries and keywords, authors and source impact, word count and word growth with thematic presentation and collaborative network of documents. Findings: The highest contribution in library management and administration research is published in the form of journal articles and the publications are steadily growing. The top 10 most productive countries were identified and USA topped the list with highest publication (108) followed by China (81) and India (74). The top cited countries includes UK (404), USA (178) and India (138). The prolific authors were Bissels G. Shatte A., Holdsworth J., Liu Y., Rousseau R. Information management, digital management, management tools and systems are the some trending topics. Conclusion: very few studies were found on the library management and administration globally compared to the past decades which is much needed aspect in the present digital world. We are finding separate management techniques for digital content, for library staff and content management and so on but one need to understand that all these aspects comes under one roof called library, so there is need to find the framework or system or tool or technique to manage library as a whole.

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become a common place in all areas of life. It is a necessary part of today's world. It provides the opportunity to accelerate, enrich and expand your skills; motivates and engages learners in learning. In fact, culture and society must be adapted to the challenges of the age of knowledge. The spread of ICT has resulted in rapid technological, social, political and economic transformation, which has emerged in a network society organized around ICTs. The 21st Century is the age of ICT. Throughout the world, there is a tendency to use ICT in teaching learning processes. Educator and learner must gain access to technology to improve learning skills and academic development. The ICT in teaching learning process involves the use of computers, computer software and other devices for processing, transmitting and retrieving data and related services. In this paper it is emphasized on the previous studies conducted on ICT competence and Attitude of faculty members towards using ICT in teaching and learning activities in higher education institutions.

This study tries to determine the current Institutional Repository (IR) scenario in the central university libraries of Assam. A systematic questionnaire for the respondents was developed to capture the primary data. The surveys were handed out or sent to the target groups, and they were returned by hand or e-mail. Many conditions must be satisfied to properly establish IRs. According to the current study, the main hurdles to IRs in central university libraries of Assam are lack of technical assistance and high-speed internet connection. Why are certain academics allowed to see their work while others are not? What would make it possible for teachers to share their knowledge resources to help knowledge societies thrive? The Open Education Resources (OER) movement promotes the free and open sharing of educational resources. This study monograph demonstrates the positive attitude towards others among higher education instructors in India, which is driven to use the resources and distribute them for altruistic motives.

Religious publishing is not strange to the knowledge production community of the human race. However, Islamic publishing has been problematic either in Nigeria or elsewhere in the globe. Literature has shown a slow response to scholarly publishing from the Muslim world generally. This study seeks to evaluate the performance of religious publishing between 2011 and 2018 in Nigeria and the quantum of contributions of Islam to this productivity. The data for the study was obtained from the National Bibliography of Nigeria which aggregates the bibliographic records of publications produced in the country annually. A total of 1,992 entries within the period of 2011-2018 was extracted from the NBN representing the entire publications recorded for religious publications for the period under review. The 1,992 entries were later collated for subsequent interpretation and further analysis using descriptive statistics. The findings show a decrease in the publishing activities of religious organizations and authors of religious books in Nigeria within the period, the extremely low performance of Islamic (Other) Religious Publications, and domination of the scene by CRP. Therefore there is an urgent need for sensitization of potential authors of Islamic books, training for Muslim publishing houses on the technicality of book production.

This presentation will share the results of a new initiative developed by the ETD Librarian at Florida International University (FIU) to develop a personal connection between students and the ETD Librarian. The goal is threefold; to provide a personal contact and open communication channel within the library to whom students can address publishing best practices and concerns with, to better inform and engage students in the metadata process of submitting theses and dissertations, and to spur the growth of knowledge and usage of ORCID. A previous initiative that added an ORCID and a license option to the metadata fields had resulted in a growth in licensing usage but the use of ORCID continued to remain flat at approximately 30%.A study was conducted to determine whether students understood when and why to use the ORCID and embargo options and the results showed that students did not understand the usefulness of these tools. At FIU, the ETD submission process is split into two parts with the graduate school coordinator being the main contact with students and the ETD Librarian doing the publishing in the institutional repository. Our ETD Coordinator offers workshops to help guide the students through this process, however, students have previously had no contact with the ETD Librarian. This novel approach aims to change that.

This book gathers the bibliographic list of the overall intellectual production of Christoph Stückelberger, President of Globethics.net and professor of ethics. The booklet aims at providing a comprehensive bibliographic guide to follow the author’s career over 50 years as a publisher and researcher. It is also an invitation to young authors to discover the multiple facets of applied ethics, from the work of a leading academic figure, and closely linked to extensive experience in development work and a flourishing life of commitment to Christian values.

Provides an overview of information resources produced by this Honolulu-based Defense Department regional security studies educational institution named for long-time Hawaii U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye. Discusses program's emphasis on increasing security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region and includes details about its instructional activities and research output.

The transition to an open science system affects the entire research process. The reward systems also need to be adjusted in order to support and mirror the open research landscape, but what will this work look like, and what will change? We met Gustav Nilsonne, chair of the European working group dealing with the issue and a participant in the SUHF working group on merit reviews., Övergången till ett öppet system för vetenskap och vetenskaplig kommunikation påverkar hela forskningsprocessen. Meriteringssystemen behöver anpassas för att stödja och spegla det öppna forskningslandskapet, men hur kommer arbetet att se ut och vad kommer att förändras? Vi har träffat Gustav Nilsonne, ordförande för den europeiska arbetsgruppen som hanterar frågan och deltagare i SUHF:s arbetsgrupp för meritbedömningar., The text of the feature "Towards a new reward system for open science" is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). This allows for extended sharing and use of the material. For more information, see the original document as web page or full text document.

Övergången till ett öppet system för vetenskap och vetenskaplig kommunikation påverkar hela forskningsprocessen. Meriteringssystemen behöver anpassas för att stödja och spegla det öppna forskningslandskapet, men hur kommer arbetet att se ut och vad kommer att förändras? Vi har träffat Gustav Nilsonne, ordförande för den europeiska arbetsgruppen som hanterar frågan och deltagare i SUHF:s arbetsgrupp för meritbedömningar., The transition to an open science system affects the entire research process. The reward systems also need to be adjusted in order to support and mirror the open research landscape, but what will this work look like, and what will change? We met Gustav Nilsonne, chair of the European working group dealing with the issue and a participant in the SUHF working group on merit reviews., Texten i reportaget är licenserad under en Creative Commons Attribution 4.0-licens (CC BY 4.0). Det ger dig utökade möjligheter att använda och sprida materialet. För mer information: Se originalet i fulltext som dokument eller webbsida.

Journals circulate the life blood of academic publishing: authors need editors to help them present their work in its finest form, while readers need editors to deliver the most welcome reading, and editors need both authors and readers for their journals to thrive. Michael Cornett reflects on his career at the center of this symbiotic relationship as managing editor of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. The institutional stability afforded by Duke University Press as the publisher of JMEMS and Duke University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies as the campus home for the journal has allowed Cornett to develop an active hub of publishing that integrates the journal within a local academic community, while maintaining the public-facing connection to the wider world of publishing. Editing at its best is collaborative, community-based, knowledge-building work.

Scholarly publishing lives on traditioned terminology that gives meaning to subjects such as authors, inhouse editors and external guest editors, artifacts such as articles, journals, special issues, and collected editions, or practices of acquisition, selection, and review. These subjects, artifacts, and practices ground the constitution of scholarly discourse. And yet, the meaning ascribed to each of these terms shifts, blurs, or is disguised as publishing culture shifts, which becomes manifest in new digital publishing technology, new forms of publishing management, and new forms of scholarly knowledge production. As a result, we may come to over- or underestimate changes in scholarly communication based on traditioned but shifting terminology. In this article, we discuss instances of scholarly publishing whose meaning shifted. We showcase the cultural shift that becomes manifest in the new, prolific guest editor. Though the term suggests an established subject, this editorial role crystallizes a new cultural setting of loosened discourse communities and temporal structures, a blurring of publishing genres and, ultimately, the foundations of academic knowledge production., Peer Reviewed

Research on writing tools stopped in the late 1980s when Microsoft Word had achieved monopoly status. However, the development of the Web and the advent of mobile devices are increasingly rendering static print-like documents obsolete. In this vision paper we reflect on the impact of this development on scholarly writing and publishing. Academic publications increasingly include dynamic elements, e.g., code, data plots, and other visualizations, which clearly requires other tools for document production than traditional word processors. When the printed page no longer is the desired final product, content and form can be addressed explicitly and separately, thus emphasizing the structure of texts rather than the structure of documents. The resulting challenges have not yet been fully addressed by document engineering.

Based on quantitative and qualitative data and analyses, this article highlights how research in the discipline of history in Sweden has been affected by imperatives of internationalization in recent decades. Four central dimensions of the internationalization of research are discussed in some depth, based on empirically observable changes in the discipline since 2000: (i) geographical areas of research, (ii) international publications, (iii) international researcher mobility, and (iv) international research funding. It is concluded that for the first two dimensions there has been a significant shift towards more internationalization of research in the Swedish discipline of history since 2000, and particularly since 2010, but for the latter two, internationalization is less prominent, even though the opportunities for international mobility and securing international research funding have increased significantly since 2000. The article also highlights some controversies and debates pertaining to the internationalization of historical research in Sweden and the other Nordic countries. It is concluded that Swedish historians have come a long way in overcoming the methodological nationalism that characterized the discipline for most of the twentieth century, and that they now participate more than ever before on the international frontlines of historical research.

Im Zusammenhang mit der Open-Access-Transformation rückt die Auswertung großer Datenmengen immer mehr in den Fokus von Bibliotheken, da die Anzahl der wissenschaftlichen Publikationen beständig ansteigt. Diese stetig anwachsende Datenmenge muss zuerst nutzbar gemacht werden, bevor fundierte Aussagen beispielsweise zu einrichtungsbezogenen Publikationsoutputs möglich sind. Hier setzt der Open Access Monitor (OAM) an, welcher als Schnittstelle zur Zusammenführung diverser Quellsysteme wie Unpaywall, Dimensions, Web of Science und Scopus fungiert. Dazu ist der OAM strukturell dreigeteilt: Die Daten befinden sich in der Datenbank (Backend), welche über die REST-Schnittstelle (API) abgefragt oder über die Weboberfläche (Frontend) präsentiert und visualisiert werden können. Durch die Nachnutzung einer Vielzahl an Quellsystemen müssen die Daten homogenisiert werden, um vollständige Datenbestände ohne Dubletten zu realisieren. Dafür müssen Zeitschriftentitel oder Einrichtungsbezeichnungen vereinheitlicht werden, um die ursprünglichen Einträge aus den Quellsysteme den entsprechenden Datensätzen im OAM zuordnen zu können. Im Falle der Einrichtungsnamen werden diese mit persistenten Identifikatoren (PID) angereichert. Für die Daten von manchen Datenbanken können die dort hinterlegten Einrichtungsnormierungen nicht direkt auf Organisations-Identifier (ROR-IDs) gemappt werden, weshalb der Umweg über die Rohformen der Affiliationsangaben der Autor*innen gewählt wird. Dieses Mapping der Affiliationsangaben ist eine umfangreiche und komplexe Aufgabe, da zum einen die gelieferten Angaben häufig nicht eindeutig sind und zum anderen eine klare Trennung der Einrichtungen, insbesondere bei Universitätskliniken, eine intellektuelle Bearbeitung erfordert. Der hochkomplexe Vorgang, aus einer Vielzahl an Datenquellen einen einheitlichen Datensatz zu generieren, wird im Beitrag aufgezeigt, wobei ein besonderer Schwerpunkt auf die Normierungsprozesse sowie die Vergabe der Open-Access-Kategori, In the light of the Open Access transformation, the analysis of large amounts of data is increasingly important for libraries, whereas the number of scholarly publications is constantly growing. Large amounts of data must first be made usable before any substantiated analysis can be made, e.g. regarding institution-related publication outputs. This is where the Open Access Monitor (OAM) comes in, which acts as an interface for merging data from various source systems such as Unpaywall, Dimensions, Web of Science and Scopus. For this purpose, the OAM is structurally divided into three parts: the backend hosts the data, which can be queried via the API, and is presented and visualized in the frontend. All data, coming from various source systems, must be homogenized in order to realize complete data sets without creating duplicates. Journal titles or institution names have to be standardized to allow assigning the original entries from the source systems to the corresponding data records in the OAM. In the case of institution names, these are enriched with persistent identifiers. Given the way the data is organized in some of the source databases, the institution names cannot be mapped directly to organization identifiers (ROR-IDs) in some cases. Therefore, the raw forms of the author’s affiliation information are used in the mapping process. Affiliation mapping is an extensive and complex task, since the data provided are often ambiguous and at the same time a clear distinction of institutions, especially in the case of university hospitals, requires intellectual processing. The highly complex process of generating a uniform data set from a multitude of data sources will be demonstrated, with a special focus on the normalization processes as well as the assignment of Open Access categories. Metadata quality remains a constant challenge, as does the issue of availability and sustainability of the connected source systems. The use and integration of open data sources i, Peer Reviewed