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This paper presents and analyses “NEP: New Economics Papers”, the current awareness service of the RePEc digital library. NEP is a human-mediated service. New items arriving in RePEc are examined by editors of subject-specific reports. This paper introduces NEP from a conceptual point of view and communicates how NEP fits into the evolving world of...
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يتطلب مع ظهور المكتبات الرقمية الحاجة لتقييمها، لأن التقييم نشاط بحثي له تأثير نظري وعملي. ويتمثل الهدف من تقييم المكتبات الرقمية في التأكد من مدى تحقيق المكتبات الرقمية لأهدافها الرئيسية والفرعية وتقديم مقترحات التطوير. والجدير بالذكر أنه ليس هناك معايير تقييم موحدة وتقنيات تقييم للمكتبات الرقمية، فسارت دراسات تقييم المكتبات الرقمية في عد...
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... We treat the occurrence of documents in different reports as independent events. Data in Barrueco Cruz et al. (2003) suggests that this is not the case. However, in a practical application, it would be cumbersome to rerank a nepall report for a certain subject when it becomes known that the editor of another subject report has included that document in her report issue, based on that new information, because editors make their decisions independently from each other but typically within a short time frame after the nep-all report has been issued. ...
This papers studies a special “small” information retrieval problem where user satisfaction only depends on the ordering of documents. We look for a retrieval performance measure applicable for this setting. We define some requirements for such a measure. We develop a theoretical ordering of all outcomes. We look at some standard and purpose-build measures and assess them against the requirements. We conclude that a linear combination of two such measures is adequate.
... As more subject reports have been added, the coverage ratio ought to improve over time, and, in the long run, reach 100 percent. Surprisingly, the data reported by Barrueco Cruz, Krichel, & Trinidad (2003) suggest that the coverage ratio has not been improving over time, and that it certainly remains well below full coverage. Currently, the coverage ratio stands at 78 percent. ...
... They are the " target theory " and the " quality theory, " respectively. The target theory starts with the observation (Barrueco Cruz, Krichel & Trinidad, 2003) that the size of nep-all issues has been highly volatile in the short run, and has been steadily growing in the long run. The theory suggests that, when composing an issue of a subject report, the editors have an implicit issue size in mind. ...
“NEP: New Economics Papers”, the current awareness service for the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) digital library, is made possible by volunteer editors who filter new additions to RePEc into subject-specific reports. The official purpose of current awareness service is to filter working papers by subject matter without any judgment of its academic quality. In this article, binary logistic regression analysis (BLRA) estimates the probability of a paper being included in any of the subject reports as a function of a range of observable values. The analysis suggests that, contrary to their claims, editors use quality criteria: the series the paper is coming from and the reputation of the authors. The findings suggest that a current awareness service can issue quality signals.
Purpose
– The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which digital library projects incorporated reference services to increase the value of the collections and support the use of information.
Design/methodology/approach
– After defining digital library service types, the study surveyed 60 digital collections/projects from the Digital Initiatives Database (DID) and analyzed what types of services have been offered and how they varied.
Findings
– Findings showed that digital collections scored high marks in offering services in two areas – search and digital reference; however, the findings also revealed that they have been limited in giving valuable information services in other areas.
Originality/value
– The study shows that the current practice of digital initiatives needs to integrate various services not only to help users find information, but also to instruct users to better utilize the library and its other services.
Purpose
Applications of information technology have been directly responsible for the increase in productivity of business, government and academic activities. Business and management historians have yet to contribute to better understanding such processes. This paper aims to address this shortcoming through the internal and organisational history of a system for speedy, online distribution of recent additions to the broad literatures on economics and related areas called NEP: New Economic Papers.
Design/methodology/approach
This is a first person account (partly autobiographical) which also includes interviews and the use of archived e‐mail correspondence.
Findings
The advent of the internet promised a revolutionary change by democratising the social institutions related to the creation and dissemination of academic knowledge. Instead, this story tells how participants slowly but steadily tended to replicate established institutions.
Social implications
This paper provides a story of the NEP project and shows how one person's drive could generate a broader community of volunteers (constituted by a large number of academics and practitioners who provide critical support for its functioning). The paper provides details of the social and technological challenges for the construction of the technological platform as well as the evolution of its governance.
Originality/value
There is no historiography in business and management history on how to deal with changes in archived material resulting from the application of information and telecommunication technologies. Given the rate of change for events in the third industrial revolution, this paper shows it is possible and indeed relevant to document events in the recent past.
This paper adds to the growing literature on the formation of online communities from an historical perspective by telling of the emergence and development of a service for speedy, online distribution of recent additions to the broad literatures on economics and related areas called NEP: New Economics Papers as well as the online community that grew around it. We provide details of the social and technological challenges for its construction as well as the evolution of its governance. The development of NEP provides an illustrative example for the kind of new business models that have emerged as the Internet has been used by creative minds to provide existing services in a new way.
RePEc is a large digital library for the economics community. “NEP: New Economics Papers” is a current awareness service for recent additions to RePEc. The service is run by volunteer editors. They filter new additions to RePEc into subject-specific reports. The intended purpose of this current awareness service is to filter papers by subject matter without any judgment of their academic quality. We use binary logistic regression analysis to estimate the probability of a paper being included in any of the subject reports as a function of a range of observable variables. Our analysis suggests that, contrary to their own claims, editors use quality criteria. These include the reputation of the series as well as the reputation of the authors. Our findings suggest that a current awareness service can be used as a first step of a peer-review process.
In this paper, we discuss the provision of bibliographic data as an extension of the open source concept. Our particular concern is the sustainability of such endeavors. We describe the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) project, probably the largest "open source" bibliographic database. It demonstrates that open-source bibliographic data collection is sustainable.
