Chapter Three

Scholarly Communication International Issue

Scholarly Publishing & Communication: Issues & Resources

Author Rights: Tools and Resources for Scholars and Researchers

Copy Rights: Resources, Guides and Workshops
Data Management: Plans and Tools

• The Library has established a Scholarly Communication Center to

offer guidance on university policy to the Library and to faculty,
students, and staff on matters pertaining to scholarly communication,
such as copyright and fair use, database licensing, and user privacy
issues.
Responsibilities

 Have leadership, management, policy and planning responsibilities for the library‐
wide scholarly communication program.
 Work closely with connections or links that are involved with collection management
and scholarly communication activities.
 Develop and implement a program to increase awareness among faculty, researchers
and students about scholarly communication issues.
 Develop and maintain a broad network of partners among faculty, scholars, graduate
students, and administrators and committees in campus and system wide offices.
 Be informed of and keep library and faculty up to date.
 Lead Library participation in current and newly developed initiatives.
 Act as the primary spokesperson at campus, system wide, state, national, and
international levels for issues and policies relating to scholarly communication.
What is Collaboration Mean?
• Collaboration means working together with another person or a team
of people on the same project or the same document.

• This can be anything from a school report or group project to a work

project.

• Collaboration is working with each other to do a task and to achieve

shared goals.
Cont.
• It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work
together to realize shared goals, (this is more than the intersection of
common goals seen in co-operative ventures, but a deep, collective,
determination to reach an identical objective.

• Structured methods of collaboration encourage introspection or self-

examination of behavior and communication.

• These methods specifically aim to increase the success of teams as they

engage in collaborative problem solving. Forms, rubrics, charts and
graphs are useful in these situations to objectively document personal
traits with the goal of improving performance in current and future projects.
Cont..
• Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals
work together to a common purpose to achieve business
benefit.

• Key features of collaboration tools are:

• Synchronous collaboration such as online meetings and instant
messaging,
• Asynchronous collaboration such as shared workspaces and
annotations.
Collaboration, at the conceptual level, involves:
• Awareness - We become part of a working entity with a shared purpose
• Motivation - We drive to gain consensus in problem solving or development
• Self-synchronization - We decide as individuals when things need to happen
• Participation - We participate in collaboration and we expect others to participate
• Mediation - We negotiate and we collaborate together and find a middle point
• Reciprocity - We share and we expect sharing in return through reciprocity
• Reflection - We think and we consider alternatives
• Engagement - We proactively engage rather than wait and see
Bibliometric indicators
• Bibliometric indicators: quality measurements of scientific
publication

• Bibliometrics is a set of mathematical and statistical methods used to

analyze and measure the quantity and quality of books, articles, and
other forms of publications.
Types of bibliometric indicators
There are three types of bibliometric indicators:
• Quantity indicators :which measure the productivity of a particular
researcher;

• Quality indicators :which measure the quality (or "performance") of a

researcher's output; and

• Structural indicators: which measure connections between

publications, authors, and areas of research.
Publication cycle
• Publication cycle is the process through which authors take their
ideas and put them into viewable form.

• This includes all forms of publication, from initial research reports, to

articles posted on websites, and the commonly recognized magazine
articles and books.
 Types of publication

• The most important distinction among publication types is that between the
primary and secondary literature.

• The primary literature refers to the places in which original scientific

research is first published in a publicly accessible document.

• This includes most journal papers, conference proceedings, theses and

dissertations.

• The information published in the primary literature is later condensed and

reorganized into the secondary literature, which includes textbooks, book
chapters, review articles, indexing and abstracting services and various
other forms of information compilation.
Cont..
• The role of the primary literature is to share new findings with the
broader community;

• The role of the secondary literature is to compile and organize the

information in the primary literature into an easily accessible and
understandable format.
Other publication type
Cont.
• Research reports:-These are published when authors do experiments
to help support their topics.

• Conference papers:-Published during conferences.

• Magazine and newspaper article:-Magazines and newspapers are

some of the most commonplace publications that people think of.
• They are the main source of recent, up to date information that affects
everyday life.
• These types of media are generally published from a day to a week after the
event being reported on occurred.
Cont.
• Journal article:-Journals are slower to publish information, but are
more reputable than magazines and newspapers.

• Book:-Is a key publication type, used not only for information, but
also telling stories, listing facts, and sharing opinions.

• Encyclopedia:-Similar to books, but the information contained in

encyclopedias and because they are periodicals, they are different in
how they function.
 Cont..
• Online publication types:-
• Blogs:-These are simply people or a corporation's ideas that are
published throughout the internet.
• Forums:-For support or posting reviews and specific questions
about a specific product or brand.
• E-Books:-Simply books that have been digitally scanned and
posted online.
• Personal website:-Usually hosted by an individual.
• Corporate and government websites:-These are usually
contributed to expressly by employees of a particular company or
department of the government.
 Database Coverage 

• The digital Library maintains subscriptions to hundreds of electronic

databases.
• These databases are only available to currently-enrolled students, faculty,
and staff at higher education.

• They cover a wide range of subjects, from general interest (such as

encyclopedias or newspapers) to very specific disciplines (such
as Algological, Mycology & Protozology Abstracts).

•  For this reason, it is important to select the most appropriate database for
your information needs. 
Cont.
When selecting a database, consider the following coverage features:
• What kind of document?
• Which disciplines?
• What time periods?
• What languages?
• Which publication types?
• What is included in the record?
Searching

• Database contains only certain types and amounts of information, a

characteristic called coverage.

• This information can typically be found in the database itself under links such
as "About [name of database]," "Database information," "Title list," or
"Sources," etc.

• Web-based databases are typically accessed from a link that is annotated with
some information about coverage.

• Databases published in paper form normally locate this information in the

front of each volume or in an introduction.
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