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This article examines citations of Western journals in eight LIS journals and six history journals published in Taiwan. The findings show that both the Western journals' impact factor values and whether they are included in JCR may not necessarily indicate their real use in Taiwan's LIS and history research-especially in history research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the results of a survey of possibly predatory open access journals. Based on Jeffrey Beall's compilations of predatory publishers and standalone journals, the study identified 891 publishers and 7,726 journals with content at the end of January 2015, of which 1,989 journals were published by twelve mega publishers that had published over one hundred journal titles. The distributions of all journals versus journals from the mega publishers by paper quantity, journal debut year/journal age, and subject were systematically examined and compared. It was found that, at the time of this study, nearly half of the publishers had only one non-empty journal. Nearly 2/3 of the 7,726 non-empty journals had published only 50 or less papers, and half of them were debuted within two years. As high as 90% of the journals targeted science, technology, and medicine (STM), and the three domains had roughly equal shares of the journals. A sample of 11,419 articles was further drawn from the journals with more than 100 papers and those with 10 or less papers. The analysis of the first authors showed that India, United States and Nigeria were the top three contributors to suspicious journals; they together constituted approximately 50% of the sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a study regarding mobile apps by university libraries in Taiwan and need of app users including low use of mobile phones services by university libraries in Taiwan, suggestions for inclusion of quick search options in apps, and need of content sharing services.

Content analysis is now also popular in LIS research. It is a flexible and unobtrusive method to analyse the meanings of narratives objectively. However, the objectivity of analysis relies heavily on a well-constructed coding scheme as well as the consistency of coding behaviour. In this paper, we shared our experiences with content analysis in three very different LIS research. We emphasized on the development of mutual exclusive and comparable coding schemes in each study in order to enhance the internal validity and extensibility for future research. We also discussed on the reliability considerations. Hopefully it may encourage more discussion on the methodology and contribute to the vigour of the content analysis based investigations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]