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Abstracting and Information Services: Managing the Flow of Scholarly Communication—Past, Present, and Future
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For centuries researchers have relied upon abstracting and indexing (A&I) services to manage information overload and ensure the flow of scholarly communication. Today these services continue to provide ease-of-access to current publications and to content-rich databases encompassing decades, even centuries, of invaluable scholarly research. But will today's A&I services meet the information needs of future generations of scholars within the rapidly growing digital information community? The author discusses the role and evolution of A&I services, the challenges they now face, and the strategies that are being developed to ensure success in the foreseeable future. Serials Review 2003; 29:200–209.
... According to Shrestha et al. (2018), improving the visibility of journals and the recognition received by the journals abstracted or indexed in prominent databases could be among the major reasons for their interest. Further, information of progress of journals provided by the A&I databases is useful for the editors and publishers to evaluate the success of their performance and to monitor other competitive publishers in the field (Lawlor 2003). Also, administrators of academic institutions may use A&I databases to evaluate the performance of their employees. ...
... Therefore, collecting relevant information directly from the original sources is important for administrators to monitor the progress of the employees. Library services can ensure the presence of concerned journals in leading A&I databases as an aspect to include genuine journals to the collection (Lawlor 2003;Subramanyam et al. 2017). Researchers from scientometrics can use A&I databases as resources to collect data for analyzing the behavior of publications and their interaction with the readers. ...
The inclusion of a target journal in certain Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases is useful for authors to select an appropriate journal for publishing. This research aims to find the importance of a collection of A&I databases for authors. The reasons for targeting the journals included in certain A&I databases and challenges for publishing in the journals included in leading databases are among the main objectives of this research. This study conducted a web-based survey separately for authors in three subject domains. Approximately 40 to 50% of authors in each subject domain consider the inclusion of target journals in certain databases as very important. Social sciences and Technology authors give higher attention to Web of Science and Scopus while authors on Medicine consider PubMed and MEDLINE as the most important databases. The reputation of databases is the reason for considering the journals included in their preferred databases. Authors are used to checking the presence of target journals from the original sources to ascertain their inclusion in the target databases. The likelihood of rejection and inadequate financial support are the major obstacles to publish in journals included in leading databases. Further, this research has organized examined databases into three categories, namely, ‘Well-known databases’, ‘Subject-specific, but less-known databases’, and ‘Less-relevant databases’. In addition to authors, librarians, editors, publishers, administrators of academic institutions, and readers can use the results of this study to make critical decisions.
... Derek de Solla Price. (Lawlor, 2003). A figura seguinte retrata a distribuição no tempo por diferentes áreas do conhecimento e o seu crescimento cumulativo. ...
... Derek de Solla Price. (Lawlor, 2003). A figura seguinte retrata a distribuição no tempo por diferentes áreas do conhecimento e o seu crescimento cumulativo. ...
... Bonnie Lawlor suggests that if the burgeoning electronic open access movement is nurtured by both the creators and the consumers, it does indeed have the potential to become a viable alternative to the repressive structures traditionally in place. 7 With much needed 15-Jan-2006 White Paper on the Future of Cataloging support from the academic community, libraries will remain in the forefront of the transformation of scholarly communication. Once thought to be the means for curtailing rising serial costs, online journals have merely become another contributor to price escalation. ...
... Online field-specific research databases follow from a long history of abstracting and indexing services. 1 Publications that provide abstracts of printed books appeared as early as the 1600s, and abstracting and indexing services specializing in a specific field established a presence in the 1800s. Services that cover the sciences migrated to a digital platform in the mid 1900s, and services specializing in the arts and humanities made databases available online by the 1980s. ...
Discovery of academic literature through Web search engines challenges the traditional role of specialized research databases. Creation of literature outside of academic presses and peer-reviewed publications expands the content for scholarly research within a particular field. The resulting body of literature raises the question of whether scholars prefer the perceived broader access of Web search engines or opt for the precision of field-specific research databases. Surveys of art historians indicate a complementary use of on-line search tools with a reliance on field-specific research databases to discover authoritative content. Active use of Web search engines and initiatives for open access suggest that research databases will integrate into an evolving Web-based infrastructure that supports discovery and access of scholarly literature.
The Information Industry has consolidated over the past thirty to forty years through a series of mergers and acquisitions. Today, the dominant commercial players in scientific publishing are the big players such as the Elseviers and Thomson Reuters of the world and the major non-profits are scientific societies such as the American Chemical Society. But during the second half of the last century there were far more creative entrepreneurial players who were developing what would become essential information services. Among others, these included BIOSIS, Derwent, Dialog, the Institute for Scientific Information, Molecular Design, Ltd., Engineering Information, etc. These no longer exist as stand-alone organizations although their products continue under the umbrella of Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, and ProQuest. This paper will take a look at one of these icons of the past - the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI®) and the innovative chemist and entrepreneur, Eugene Garfield, who created it.
A research survey was undertaken to ascertain the ‘Use Patterns of Aerospace e-Indexing, Abstracting and Citation Services’ amongst the aerospace scientists and engineers of 16 aerospace organizations of Bangalore The major findings of this study are: (a) Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was applied for testing the significant difference among the mean scores obtained towards the Use Patterns of ’Aerospace Indexing, Abstracting and Citation Services’ It is observed that all organizations show a significant difference (P < 0.05) in their mean scores viz., ‘Aerospace and High Technology Databases (CSA Abstracts)’, ‘INSPEC’, ‘ISI Web of Science’, ‘ISI Citation Indexes’, ‘ISI Web of Knowledge’, NASA – Technical Reports Server (NTRS)’, ‘NASA Technical Information Services Indexes (NTIS)’ and ‘SCOPUS’, except for ‘Engineering Index ((Compendex), Engineering Village 2)) (P = 0.094)’ and ‘Search Tools’.
Against a backdrop of increasing access to full text and the perceived success of Web search engines, academic disciplines with highly specialized, if not esoteric, nomenclature remain in need of specially crafted metadata. Art history and the study of architecture represent two such disciplines. Historically, field-specific research databases have maintained canons of citations complemented with descriptive abstracting and precise indexing. Surveys of art and architectural historians identify the value of abstracting and indexing to scholarly research. The perceived importance indicates a need to integrate discipline-specific abstracts and vocabularies into the evolving Web-based infrastructure for searching of scholarly literature and to enable the continued production of such metadata.
The ARL Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists covers an important period in the development of Internet publishing. Since 1991, each of the seven annual editions of the ARL Directory has offered a snapshot of the state of Internet publishing at that time. ARL researchers examine the characteristics of an e-journal as they search for and profile new titles. Trends in format, distribution, and content are explored by reviewing the kinds of e-serials that make up each edition of the ARL Directory.
The statistics published each year by U.S. secondary publishers reveal trends in scientific communication, including political,
economic, and social factors. For the first time since 1957, the number of documents abstracted and indexed by U.S. secondary
services has declined—following thirty-five years of often rapid growth. The author traces the history of abstracting and
indexing services in the United States, considers reasons that the coverage of secondary services has stabilized, and discusses
why comprehensive coverage of the scholarly literature may no longer be a viable strategy for secondary services to follow
in the years ahead.
Scholars are facing unprecedented Information Overload in their attempts to identify potentially relevant information sources. Electronic networks have not only expedited traditional forms of publishing but created new formal and informal opportunities for communication. Conventional methods of information management are reaching the limits of their effectiveness. To enhance access to information in the coming decades, systems that fully utilize the digital nature of a growing number of scholarly resources must be implemented.
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