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The Basics
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
in Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is this book about?
Research is a complex social activity. It is performed in a variety of environments by a wide array of actors, and includes many different activities. ...
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The Big Picture
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
in Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Who controls research measurement?
Scholarship is often lauded as a public good—that is, a product that is expensive to hold exclusively and whose value does not lessen with ...
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The Data
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
in Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is a citation index?
A citation index is a bibliographic database that contains, in addition to basic metadata on information resources—such as authors, publication year, ...
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Definitions and History
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is “scholarly communication” and what forms does it take?
Scholarly communication is something of an umbrella term that refers to the many different ways in which authors and ...
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The Future of Scholarly Communication
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The obvious question for us to address in this final chapter is a deceptively simple-sounding one: What will the future of scholarly communication look like? But we should probably break ...
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Google Books and Hathitrust
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the Google Books Project?
Google Books has its origins in an idea that occurred to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the mid-1990s, when they were graduate ...
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The Indicators
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
in Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How is authorship defined and measured?
Authorship is at the heart of bibliometric indicators: It is authors, whose names and institutions appear on a document, who are measured. ...
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Introduction
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Scholarly communication may seem, quite reasonably, like a narrow and specialized area of inquiry, one that most people neither need nor probably want to know very much about. So perhaps we ...
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Metadata and Why It Matters
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is metadata?
Literally, the word “metadata” means “data about data,” and it refers to a huge variety of information types. A caption printed under a photograph is an example ...
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Metrics and Altmetrics
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How is quality defined and measured in the world of scholarly publishing?
The concept of scholarly quality is a complicated one because it has multiple dimensions that apply in ...
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Needs and Practices in STM and HSS
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What do STM and HSS stand for?
STM stands for “scientific, technical, and medical,” and the acronym has basically come to be used as a shorthand reference to what many call the ...
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Open Access: Opportunities and Challenges
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is “open access”?
Open access (OA) has to do with making access to scholarly content freely available to all. As a term, it is often used in opposition to “toll access,” which ...
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Problems and Controversies in Scholarly Communication
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the “serials crisis”?
For the past several decades, librarians and other observers and participants in the scholarly communication ecosystem have been expressing alarm over ...
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The Role of University Presses
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How did university presses come into existence?
University press publishing has its origins with two of the first universities in the Western Hemisphere: those at Oxford and ...
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What Does the Scholarly Communication Marketplace Look Like?
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How many scholars and scientists are publishing articles and books?
This is a reasonable question, but unfortunately a terribly difficult one to answer. It is difficult to ...
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What Is Scholarly Publishing and How Does It Work?
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the difference between scholarly communication and scholarly publishing?
As discussed in Chapter 2, scholars communicate with each other in a wide variety of ways, all of ...
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What Is the Role of Copyright?
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why do we have copyright law?
Although there have been various laws throughout history designed to regulate publishing, modern copyright law has its clearest roots in the Statute ...
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What Is the Role of the Library?
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What do we mean when we say “libraries”?
Obviously, there are many different kinds of libraries with a variety of missions: Public libraries, corporate libraries, hospital ...
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Who Are the Scholars and Why Do They Communicate?
Rick Anderson
in Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Who contributes to the scholarly communication ecosystem?
First of all, it is important to note that scholarly communication does, in fact, take place within an ecosystem, a ...
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