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Evaluation of Usage and Acceptance of Electronic Journals: Results of an Electronic Survey of Max Planck Society Researchers including Usage Statistics from Elsevier, Springer, and Academic Press
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... Many studies have found that users believe the main advantage of electronic journals is convenience of accessing articles any time from their desktop computer (Palmer and Sandler 2003;Rusch-Feja and Siebeky 1999;Maughan 1999;Tenner and Yang 1999;Hiller 2002;Nicolaides 2001;Chu 1998;Bishop 1999). Experienced users also liked the ease of skimming and searching, the possibility of downloading or printing the desired document or segment, the currency of information, the speed of access, and the ability to send articles to their colleagues instantly (Palmer and Sandler 2003;Rusch-Feja and Siebeky 1999;Sathe, Grady, and Giuse 2002;Entlich et al. 1996;Chu 1998). ...
... Many studies have found that users believe the main advantage of electronic journals is convenience of accessing articles any time from their desktop computer (Palmer and Sandler 2003;Rusch-Feja and Siebeky 1999;Maughan 1999;Tenner and Yang 1999;Hiller 2002;Nicolaides 2001;Chu 1998;Bishop 1999). Experienced users also liked the ease of skimming and searching, the possibility of downloading or printing the desired document or segment, the currency of information, the speed of access, and the ability to send articles to their colleagues instantly (Palmer and Sandler 2003;Rusch-Feja and Siebeky 1999;Sathe, Grady, and Giuse 2002;Entlich et al. 1996;Chu 1998). Storing articles electronically, then printing out a portable print copy, appeals to frequent e-journal users (Palmer and Sandler 2003). ...
... Although the advantages are outweighing the perceived problems or concerns as use increases and more resources are available, users still express some concerns about the disadvantages of electronic library collections. Participants in several studies expressed the desire for more online materials, including additional journal titles, a wider variety of special or out-of-the mainstream materials, and complete volumes or back files of existing journals (Quigley et al. 2002;Palmer and Sandler 2003;Rusch-Feja and Siebeky 1999;Stewart 1996;Nicolaides 2001). Print is a proven archival format. ...
... Many studies have found that users believe the main advantage of electronic journals is convenience of accessing articles any time from their desktop computer (Palmer and Sandler 2003;Rusch-Feja and Siebeky 1999;Maughan 1999;Tenner and Yang 1999;Hiller 2002;Nicolaides 2001;Chu 1998;Bishop 1999). Experienced users also liked the ease of skimming and searching, the possibility of downloading or printing the desired document or segment, the currency of information, the speed of access, and the ability to send articles to their colleagues instantly (Palmer and Sandler 2003;Rusch-Feja and Siebeky 1999;Sathe, Grady, and Giuse 2002;Entlich et al. 1996;Chu 1998). ...
... Many studies have found that users believe the main advantage of electronic journals is convenience of accessing articles any time from their desktop computer (Palmer and Sandler 2003;Rusch-Feja and Siebeky 1999;Maughan 1999;Tenner and Yang 1999;Hiller 2002;Nicolaides 2001;Chu 1998;Bishop 1999). Experienced users also liked the ease of skimming and searching, the possibility of downloading or printing the desired document or segment, the currency of information, the speed of access, and the ability to send articles to their colleagues instantly (Palmer and Sandler 2003;Rusch-Feja and Siebeky 1999;Sathe, Grady, and Giuse 2002;Entlich et al. 1996;Chu 1998). Storing articles electronically, then printing out a portable print copy, appeals to frequent e-journal users (Palmer and Sandler 2003). ...
... Although the advantages are outweighing the perceived problems or concerns as use increases and more resources are available, users still express some concerns about the disadvantages of electronic library collections. Participants in several studies expressed the desire for more online materials, including additional journal titles, a wider variety of special or out-of-the mainstream materials, and complete volumes or back files of existing journals (Quigley et al. 2002;Palmer and Sandler 2003;Rusch-Feja and Siebeky 1999;Stewart 1996;Nicolaides 2001). Print is a proven archival format. ...
This article describes a qualitative analysis of the electronic scientific contents distributed by the main providers of electronic publications subscribed in the Spanish academic libraries. The purpose of the analysis was to define the providers' global coverage, access architecture, search benefits, interface characteristics, functionalities and services of added value.
... • Identifying suitable areas in which to expand library collections with e-resources (Rusch-Feja & Siebeky, 1999); ...
... e-Journals from four major publishers were made available and an online questionnaire used to evaluate their use and acceptance by all participants. The scope of this study in terms of the large number of users involved and the multidisciplinary nature of the subject content of the resources used, made it unique (Rusch-Feja & Siebeky, 1999). ...
... The findings of studies in the United States, United Kingdom (Tenopir et al., 2003a) and Europe (Mahe, 2004;Rusch-Feja & Siebeky, 1999) contribute to an understanding of what characterises users, user preferences, user attitudes and the barriers to the use of EIS. Local published studies which could contribute a South African perspective were difficult to identify. ...
... Investigation shows that changes in locus of control in later life relate more visibly to increased external locus of control rather than reduced internal locus of control. If the two concepts are said to be orthogonal, this then confirmed the evidence cited by Schulz & Schultz (2005) and referenced by Saade & Bahli (2005) and Rusch Feja & Siebeky (1999) in suggesting that locus of control increases in internality up until middle age. The authors at this point also note that environment becomes pronounced between the age of eight and fourteen. ...
This paper was carried out because of the gap which existed between the locus of control and self concept as determinants of database information or electronic database in private higher institutions. The sample statistical tools used were correlation and regression. The study employ random sampling to select 2086 academic staff (lecturers) from fourteen higher institutions while 3308 population size were used out of twenty one private institutions. The data generated through with the instrument of questionnaire. Analysis of the findings was carried out by employ frequency, means and percentage. Analysis of finding shows that self concept (r = 883**, p<.05) while locus of control (r= .969**, p<.05) which was highly important and related ti the use of online and database information sources. The study found that self-concept and locus of control relatively contribution were ninety-nine (99%) to the use of online information. It was recommended that management of this higher institution should provide current internet facilities to enhance lecturers' standard for effective communication to improve students' careers
... This helps them in their assignments, projects and theses. Electronic journals have the potential to change the future of scholarly research -both in their function as the distribution organ of research results and in their function as the basis for scholarly research and information (Rusch-Feja and Siebeky, 1999). ...
Abstract This paper examined the level of patronage of electronic journals/information in the
Electronic Information Department (EID) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology Library. Data for the study was collected from the request forms available at the
EID as at the time of the study. Data collected was analyzed using SPSS software. It was
revealed by the data available that there is first and foremost under utilization of the
electronic journals that have been subscribed by the University Library. It was also ...
... With respect to the adoption of the electronic media for scientific communication, a recent survey shows a significantly high acceptance of electronic journals and repositories, and an unwillingness to return to print versions only (Rusch-Feja;Siebeky, 1999). According to Swan and Brown (2005), a vast majority of authors (69%, among those who have never published in open access journals), if required to deposit copies of their published articles in one or more repositories, declared that would do so willingly (Swan;Brown, 2005). ...
Scientific communication has undergone deep transformations, since the emergence of Internet. Aiming to provide further thought on the evolution of scientific communication, this paper features a historical overview of the scientific communication advances over the last twenty years through a three-phase model for the evolution of the electronic journal and the preprints services, and presents Brazilian contemporary panorama for scientific communication. The three-phase model presented in this work is an adaptation of that one proposed by Tenopir et al. ( 2003) to describe the patterns of journal use by scientists since 1990. The early evolutionary phase followed the emergence of the first digital journals and the creation of repositories in the Web for publishing preliminary versions of scientific literature on the author's initiative; by that time, most academics reproved electronic publishing initiatives. From 1996 and forward, in the consolidation phase, electronic journals were commonly identical to their print counterparts; the acceptance of the electronic format began to increase, and preprint services got underway in several disciplines. The advanced evolutionary phase started with the world discussion on open access to scientific information. The comparison of the current electronic journal with that viewed by enthusiasts in the first years of the 1990s shows that some aspects still remain to be improved in electronic formal and informal communication, towards effective dissemination of scientific information.
... O formato eletrônico é ecologicamente correto; propicia maior facilidade e melhor relação custobenefício à gestão das revistas; diminui o tempo entre a submissão e a publicação; amplia a abrangência geográfica; representa economia de tempo para professores e pesquisadores, dispensando o seu deslocamento até a biblioteca e disponibilizando o conteúdo no próprio local de trabalho; para estudantes e profissionais, permite a consulta em qualquer momento e local, com facilidade crescente à medida que evoluem os aparelhos digitais portáteis. Com a informação do DOI das referências citadas nos artigos, a maioria dos textos integrais fica acessível a um clique [4][5][6]. ...
Following a worldwide trend, from 2015 Scientia Medica will be published only in electronic format. This will be one more milestone in the history of this journal, created in printed form in November 1988, with the name of "Revista de Medicina da PUCRS". In 1999 a section was created for the journal on the website of the School of Medicine, but the whole editorial process was still developed in the traditional way, by post and printed material. In 2004 the title changed to Scientia Medica and the journal has opened its boundaries, starting to stimulate submissions from multiple institutions and from around the world. Adopting the electronic-only model will not change the scientific rigor of Scientia Medica, which will keep exactly the same process of peer-review and editorial guidelines that have already been adopted. Article-based publishing will be maintained and completion of the issues will occur with the same periodicity. The final layout will remain the same, and the full texts will be available in PDF, with free access.
... Other factors that affect the usage rate of journals are availability of journals at the work place and the format of the journal (whether a printed material or electronic) (3). Different studies show that due to increasing availability of electronic journals, the attitude for published journals has lessened (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10). ...
... Denna undersökning utfördes under april till maj 1999 och syftet var att undersöka användningen av och inställningen till de elektroniska tidskrifter som ingick i en testinstallation vid Max Planckinstitutet (Rusch-Feja & Siebeky, 1999). Max Planckinstitutet är ett tyskt forskningsinstitut i vilket ingår ett stort antal olika forskningsenheter som tillsammans täcker i princip samtliga discipliner inom naturvetenskap, humaniora och samhällsvetenskap. ...
... Both studies found that e-journals were being used regularly (daily, weekly, monthly) despite the various disadvantages associated with the electronic format, and they confirmed that a major shift is occurring in the way that scholarly research is done. 14 One faculty respondent to the 1998 OSU poll commented with respect to the move from printed journals to e-journals that -It takes time for us to get used to this-both students and myself. This is a large cultural change for us.‖ ...
E-journal, printed journal, and database usage data from campus polls conducted annually, 1998-2000, at one large research university show increased use of e-journals and decreased use of printed journals by faculty and graduate students as the number of available e-journals increased from two hundred to more than three thousand. Little or no statistical correlation between age and frequency of use was found. The majority of frequent users of all three types of resources were from departments in the sciences. Transcripts from the 1998 poll provided insights into attitudes toward replacing printed journals with e-journals. The advantages and disadvantages mentioned were consistent with previous studies.
... During this period, there were approximately 28,000 electronic viewings of full-text articles from the study subset, compared to only 1,800 uses of the corresponding print volumes. In another survey of researchers' use and acceptance of electronic journals, 77.5% of the respondents considered that obtaining the electronic journal more quickly than the print version was very advantageous (Diann & Uta, 1999). ...
Journals, which were earlier published in print-only version, are now published in both the online and print versions. It has been established that online versions, free or not, have greater impact over the print version. But there is a difference between the dates of publication of the online and print version of the same journal. This is called the delay measured in terms of days. The purpose of this study is to find the average time delay. For this, data for more than 200 journals of various subjects from different publishers have been manually acquired for publications during the first 6 months of year 2005. Further subject-wise investigation was made during the last month of the year 2005. The average delay is found to be nearly 3 months, but it varies for different publishers. Also, the issue of large deviation from the average delay – as noted in some journals – will be discussed here.
The study investigates the use of scholarly online journals at the Faculty of Science, University of Allahabad. A questionnaire was distributed among the Faculty Members, Research Scholars and M.Sc. students to collect desired data. A total of 108 questionnaires were distributed to the selected sample; 80 valid samples were collected. The result showed a growing interest in the use of online journals among the users. Online journals were mostly used for research needs and PDF was the most preferred format. Title search and simple field search was observed as the most preferred search technique. There are many factors that may affect the use of scholarly online journals. ___________________________________________________________________________
This paper presents results taken from 2008 to 2010 of an ongoing microform use study. The number of titles used is evenly distributed over time with microfilm being the most used format and newspapers accounting for half of all usage. When publications are available electronically, users may still use the microform version. This study illustrates how microform and electronic collections are complementary—electronic materials provide better access but microform is better for preservation. Users prefer electronic materials but will also use microform when there is no online version available or when the online version is not an exact copy of the original.
As libraries increase their electronic journal collections, would dependence on interlibrary loan decrease? This paper reports a case study at the University of Nevada, Reno, University Libraries (UNR) focusing on the usage of the Elsevier online journal package and interlibrary loan (ILL) borrowing activities. It analyzes four-years' worth of UNR usage and ILL statistics, gathered between July 1999 and June 2003. It also provides observations and explanations from a perspective beyond statistics, at the level of library services and the campus demographic and research environments.
The research aims to comprehend the knowledge and utilization of electronic journal (Proquest, Science Direct, EBSCOhost, dan Cab Direct) subscribed by library of Institut Pertanian Bogor that have been performed by students as reference source in thesis writing, and obstacles faced while looking for the information. The research applies descriptive research with quantitative approach. Based on the data acquired: (1) The students’ knowledge toward electronic journal subscribed is adequately high. 87,9% students realize existence of electronic journal service, 81,8% reference resource uses electronic media, and 49,5% utilizes electronic journal; (2) The electronic journal utilization level is 86,2% which utilizes electronic journal. Electronic journal utilization level as reference material is relatively high, because from 86,2% students which utilize electronic journal, 40% utilizes it 2-3 times in a month. 34,7% utilizes electronic journal with duration less than 2 hours, with downloading electronic journal collection searched, 34,7% uses 2 articles as reference material for thesis; (3) Obstacles in utilizing electronic journal are 52% caused by electronic journal collection mostly using English, and searched collection are not available. Although there are some difficulties, they keep utilize the electronic journal.
Student’s magister is one of user library university of Indonesia those who need information regarding duty as carried out college. With different backgrounds students as, made they need facilities sources of information easy and efficient. The library University of Indonesia the provision of information service, including service online reference to access the international journal address URL through: http: // remote-lib.ui.ac.id (EZProxy to access international journals). This service is facilities remote access, connected with resource at a network central from one location. Students can access journal electronic wherever and anytime simply by making log-in through single sign on. Synthesis a problem in this research is to find how the facility of an EZProxy ui by student magister library and science university of Indonesia? For the purpose to get the facility of a remote lib ui to access the international journal of student magister library science. The result of this research can be a useful tool as input to student’s library science to develop study would check in the field of library services. Research locations in university Indonesia, election student magister library science, because have a background various activity. With a population of consists of 25 students. And techniques the sample collection by using non probability of sampling with the methods purposive sampling. The sample in this research were informants ever use the service of EZProxy (http: // remote-lib.ui.ac.id) at least once. The majority of informants interviewed 4 people with distribution 2 men and women 2. Technique the data collection was done in two ways that is observation and interview. The next step is to analyzed data. Analysis of data done by means of transcrip the results of interviews, then the data reduced, presentation of data and the withdrawal of conclusion. This research result indicates that the utilization of EZProxy to access international journals by student magister library of science university of Indonesia based on (1) ease in search of articles the international journal, (2) are provided free of charge by a library university of Indonesia so it is more efficient. (3) Can be accessed wherever and anytime, (4) the utilization is very easy, not convoluted (5) Simple, summarized in one online database. So users not get confused. Key words: library, service, information, journal, user
Student’s magister is one of user library university of Indonesia those who need information regarding duty as carried out college. With different backgrounds students as, made they need facilities sources of information easy and efficient. The library University of Indonesia the provision of information service, including service online reference to access the international journal address URL through: http: // remote-lib.ui.ac.id (EZProxy to access international journals). This service is facilities remote access, connected with resource at a network central from one location. Students can access journal electronic wherever and anytime simply by making log-in through single sign on. Synthesis a problem in this research is to find how the facility of an EZProxy ui by student magister library and science university of Indonesia? For the purpose to get the facility of a remote lib ui to access the international journal of student magister library science. The result of this research can be a useful tool as input to student’s library science to develop study would check in the field of library services. Research locations in university Indonesia, election student magister library science, because have a background various activity. With a population of consists of 25 students. And techniques the sample collection by using non probability of sampling with the methods purposive sampling. The sample in this research were informants ever use the service of EZProxy (http: // remote-lib.ui.ac.id) at least once. The majority of informants interviewed 4 people with distribution 2 men and women 2. Technique the data collection was done in two ways that is observation and interview. The next step is to analyzed data. Analysis of data done by means of transcrip the results of interviews, then the data reduced, presentation of data and the withdrawal of conclusion. This research result indicates that the utilization of EZProxy to access international journals by student magister library of science university of Indonesia based on (1) ease in search of articles the international journal, (2) are provided free of charge by a library university of Indonesia so it is more efficient. (3) Can be accessed wherever and anytime, (4) the utilization is very easy, not convoluted (5) Simple, summarized in one online database. So users not get confused.
This paper aims to investigate the practices of Pakistani academic researchers with respect to using, citing, and publishing their scholarly work. The quantitative survey method adopted to collect data from local researchers
was based on an instrument developed and used by CIBER. Their notions and practices involved in deciding trust and quality of scholarly journals were obtained. The findings revealed that national and institutional policies have
significantly influenced their decisions regarding the publishing outlets. The credibility of indexing services was found to be an important factor in choosing the journal for publishing research. ISI Web of Science Impact Factor was not considered as the top source for determining quality and trustworthiness. This study is the first of its kind that targets the top two universities of the country. A comparison of the findings with another international study
shows that some of the behavioural traits are compatible with scholars from less-developed countries like India and China, while others are more similar to the ones from highly developed countries like USA and UK.
Attraverso un questionario si studia il livello di conoscenza, da parte di soggetti quali insegnanti, ricercatori e studenti, degli Electronic Information Services (EIS) della biblioteca dell'Indian Institute of Technology di Rookee. L'India ha infatti visto un crescente interesse verso le risorse elettroniche in biblioteca, culminato nella creazione nel 2002 dell'Indian National Digital Library in Science and Technology (INDEST) Consortium. I questionari si occupano del tipo di risorse elettroniche usate dagli utenti, dell'impatto di esse sul materiale a stampa, del tipo di uso, del metodo utilizzato per la loro ricerca, degli ostacoli incontrati e della frequenza di consultazione. I risultati della ricerca mostrano un forte incremento nell'uso delle riviste online e una generale soddisfazione degli utenti verso l'offerta della biblioteca. Inoltre, le risposte ai questionari hanno evidenziato nella percezione degli utenti un incremento della considerazione delle risorse elettroniche rispetto a quelle a stampa. Le raccomandazioni per il futuro suggeriscono: politiche di abbonamento a risorse elettroniche che tengano conto delle priorità degli utenti, sviluppo di programmi didattici e di orientamento, aumento della qualità dei mezzi (Software e Hardware) per l'utilizzo delle risorse elettroniche e un incremento di strumenti del Web 2.0 (Blog, RSS feed, ecc.) ai fini della promozione di quest'ambito della biblioteca. Lo studio dovrebbe inoltre essere esteso ad un campione più vasto e ad altre Università e organizzazioni, al fine di identificare più specificamente gli ostacoli al consapevole utilizzo delle risorse elettroniche e i possibili mezzi per incoraggiare gli utenti a sfruttare le piene potenzialità del sistema.
While a large number of studies have measured the use of electronic journals and databases and have surveyed users, few studies have involved IIT Roorkee in their study. The present study tried to know the user awareness and perceptions of EIS.The survey conducted mesures use of online journals and the databases by the under graduate, postgraduate students, research scholars and faculty members of IIT Roorkee. To conduct the survey a total of 300 questionnaires were distributed to the selected sample for the year 2010-11; 283 valid samples were collected and analyzed. The result showed a growing interest in EIS among the users at IIT Roorkee, India. The survey showed that majority of respondents marked that library possessed useful online journals and databases. Awareness among the users about the availability of EIS was found highly satisfactory. EIS were mostly used for research needs. The EIS is better for accessing current Comprehensive information. User's perception of e-resources as a replacement for print in meeting their information needs is 100% to a very high extent e-resources have become a substitute for printed materials.</p
This article aims to describe the differences between researchfocused and teaching-focused (non-research) universities in terms of usage of web-based library services, as discovered by way of questionnaires and statistical analyses. It was found that the type of university within the country of Malaysia correlates to significant differences in usage of e-journals and Web-based library services in general. Factors such as library budget allocations, research productivity, and extrinsic motivations for using Web-based library services are surmised to have influenced the usage. The results also suggest that library programs at both types of universities are ineffective in creating awareness of the services. This article discusses several aspects of usage in both types of university and makes several suggestions to remedy identified problems. © Wahidah Mohd Zain, Roslina Othman and Faizal Hazri Mat Ripin.
Today the quality of engineering institutions is measured in terms of digital collections, e-resources, networking component, ICT tools etc. The engineering institutions in Tamil Nadu are investing huge amount for digital resources. This study is to find out the present status of availability of digital resources in self financing engineering institutions. A total of 275 questionnaires were distributed among the library professionals in Tamil Nadu of which 205 were responded and response rate is 74.5%. Among the 205 institutions, 54.2% of the institutions are established after the year 2000. Only 45.8% of the institutions were established before the year 2000. Online journals (88.3%) and e-journals (77.1%) are most preferred digital resources (table-2). Most of the institutions are preferring consortium for subscribing e-resources.
Accurate and reliable statistics of database usage are significant determinants for justifying library expenditures, and helping authority in decision making for future subscriptions, and renewals to premium content, subscription based databases. Accuracy and reliability can be achieved by sequential process consisting of prior research, data collection, and data analysis on different parameters. These parameters include characteristics of the respondents, databases used while collecting them, gender sensitive databases, and influence of training and orientation programmed on databases. The capture of metrics regarding usage of subscription-based premium content databases in other universities will help to create student awareness.
The Google Generation examines original and secondary research evidence from international sources to determine whether there is a younger generation of learners who are adopting different styles of information search behaviour from older generations as a function of their patterns of use of online technologies. The book addresses the questions: might the widespread availability and use of search engines, such as Google, give rise to a different type of scholar who seeks out and utilises online information sources and thereby develops a different orientation to learning from older generations whose information seeking practices became established initially in the offline world. © 2009 B. Gunter, I. Rowlands and D. Nicholas All rights reserved.
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Estudio del comportamiento, preferencias y nivel de satisfacción de la comunidad académica de la Universidad de León con respecto al uso de las revistas electrónicas. Con la finalidad indicada, se analizan los datos y opiniones de los investigadores de 69 áreas de conocimiento, recogidas en encuestas realizadas en 2012. Los resultados obtenidos se contrastan con análisis previos llevados a cabo por el equipo de investigación a partir de estadísticas de descargas y del análisis de datos de productividad. Se constata una frecuencia de uso intensa orientada fundamentalmente hacia las tareas investigadoras. La media de artículos anuales consultados es considerable y manifiesta diferencias claras entre las áreas de humanidades, ciencias sociales y ciencias de la naturaleza y la salud. El número de títulos de revistas consultados de modo regular por los investigadores de la Universidad de León se sitúa en una media cercana a 10, resultado que supera el umbral hallado en otros trabajos.
The paper provides the results of the first phase of the research project Trust and Authority in Scholarly Communications: The Periphery of World Scholarship in the Digital Era conducted in Malaysia. The objective of the study is to examine the changing behaviours and attitudes of academic researchers in today's scholarly digital environment, with respect to how they determine authority and trustworthiness in the sources they use, cite, and publish in. This phase utilised focus groups to address the research objective. Five focus groups were held during the period of December 2013 to April 2014 in three universities in Kuala Lumpur. In all a total of 48 researchers attended the focus groups, comprising 21 scientists and 27 social scientists. Findings indicate that peer-reviewed journals are still the central to the authors, however they seem to have more freedom in relation to journals they read and cite, compared to publish. Overall, authors view that scholarly resources that are current, relevant, authored by credential scholars, peer-reviewed, having credible reference lists, published by reputable journals, and having online presence are fit for scholarly utilisation. The extent to which authors are prepared to believe that the scholarly information source and channel are trustworthy for publication rely on it in view of its impact, indexation status, reputation, peers' recommendation, accessibility and visibility, and authority's approval. New forms of communication channels such as social media or new journal models are not much used in formal scholarly communication. The focus groups provided the direction for questionnaires and interviews that would follow.The paper also discusses the implication of the findings to academic librarians towards delivering the right services to meet the needs of the scholarly community.
This disseratition copes with a actual and controversly discussed topic. It is a compilation and knowledgable discussion of central analyses concerning the journals crisis with special regard to electronic publishing as well as initiatives of the open access, selfarchiving and preprint server community. It serves as a source of contributions of different actors in the market for electronic scholarly information, being commercial or uncommercial publishers, scholarly societies, libraries, etc.
The purpose of this study is to investigate access and usage of scholarly electronic journals (e-journals) at Dhaka University Library (DUL). It reports the results from a questionnaire-based survey of e-journals access and usages at Dhaka University (DU) serving a variety of academic departments. The survey of the study covers two structured questionnaires comprising of both open- and close-ended questions, and the number of respondents was (N) = 50, 30 faculty members and 20 students. First one was designed for the students of DU in order to gather data and information regarding e-journals access and usage provided by DUL. Second one was structured for the faculty members of DU to explore their expectations, opinions and valuable suggestions with a view to improving e-journal services in DUL. The study identifies some major problems of e-journals access and usage in DUL, and finds out some suitable measures to overcome the problems. The results show a growing interest in e-journals usage among the users at DU. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jbayr.v1i2.10029
As computer usage continues to grow exponentially, the desire of users to use electronic publications (e-publications) has also increased tremendously. This has led to the publication of materials in electronic form as e-publications on both CD-ROMs and web. The electronic book (e-book) is one of the several forms of e-publications and its popularity has been growing steadily for the past decade. This bibliography provides all references of the published literature on e-books and related technologies in one source so that it will save time for others in conducting literature searches and reviewing the developments. The information included in this bibliography is collected systematically from all the published sources in the world such as journal articles, conference papers, conference proceedings, books, reports and PhD theses on e-books until the last quarter of 2011. Mainly, it covers e-books, e-books publishing, the impact of e-books on different types of users, e-book publishing techniques and trends, e-book user interfaces and other technologies related to e-publications. This bibliography will be useful to all researchers conducting research in any areas related to e-books and e-book publishing.
This study analyzed the user behaviors of the electronic journal users and the influences of service quality of electronic journals on the customer satisfactions, customer loyalty, and frequency of visit to the library building. Approximately 60 percent of users prefer e-journal to printed formats. Service quality of electronic journal was measured by four dimensions: reliability of service, convenience of service, public relations, and user instructions.100 faculty members and 267 graduate school students were surveyed using questionnaires. It was concluded that each dimensions of service quality positively influenced on the customer satisfactions, and customer satisfaction positively influenced on loyalty, and negatively on frequency of visit to the library building.
This paper addresses issues related to the design of an interface supporting fine grained interaction with documents, focusing on a particular type of scholarly documents, journal articles. In order to make a usable interface we need to understand user behaviors as well as technologies that present new possibilities of enhancing user experience. This paper reviews studies along three dimensions : user information behavior in searching/using documents, new conceptual/technical models for electronic documents, and interaction mechanisms. Putting together the understanding of users and enabling technologies, requirements and considerations in developing systems with granular interactions are discussed in the conclusion.
The aim of this study is to investigate the link between the use of electronic resources and the academic output of researchers in the state universities of Castile and Leon (Spain) in the period 2006 to 2011. An analysis was undertaken of the consumption of contents distributed to the Universities of Burgos, Leon, Salamanca and Valladolid by three multidisciplinary suppliers whose materials are widely used: ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and Wiley. In investigating academic output, the databases Web of Science (WoS) from Thomson Reuters and Scopus from Elsevier were taken into account. The consumption of electronic academic contents at the four universities shows an upward trend over the years considered. There is an undoubted preference for titles distributed by ScienceDirect, striking in all the institutions. The study confirms that academics from the areas of science and technology were the most frequent users. The field of Chemistry registered the highest rates of both consumption and academic production, followed at some distance by publications related to Food Science and Technology, in respect of preferred title use, and by Physics with regard to communication of research results. Many of the journals selected for publications belonged to the suppliers investigated. Nevertheless, the work showed no absolute direct correlation between titles selected for academic publication and titles used from the platforms analyzed.
This paper presents results taken from 2008 to 2010 of an ongoing microform use study. The number of titles used is evenly distributed over time with microfilm being the most used format and newspapers accounting for half of all usage. When publications are available electronically, users may still use the microform version. This study illustrates how microform and electronic collections are complementary—electronic materials provide better access but microform is better for preservation. Users prefer electronic materials but will also use microform when there is no online version available or when the online version is not an exact copy of the original.
The study is focused on the changes in the consumption of electronic information by the academic communities of five Spanish universities through the contents distributed by four widely used suppliers, from the very first subscription to them down to 2010. Similarly, the preferences of these institutions for titles distributed by the suppliers under consideration and their links to various different academic fields were investigated. From 24% to 30% of the overall total of downloads came from the top 25 favourite titles of the respective academic communities. This fact points to a need to go beyond the Big Deal model and strive for greater flexibility in subscriptions to resources, so as to have made-to-measure supplies.
Reviews the recent literature in electronic document delivery and “the electronic library”. Describes current trials of various retrieval systems of electronic journal and textbook projects, and examines some of the costs and benefits experienced by institutions around the world, focusing in particular on developments in Germany. Finds copyright on electronic delivery services to be a problem and briefly addresses patenting and trademarks. Also assesses the idea of charges for interlibrary transactions. Finally, reviews the state of the Universal Availability of Publications programme to date, reporting on resource sharing with Africa and the Caribbean.
Before the commercial and impact factor journals ruled the publications industry, many institutes were showcasing their scholarly research output in the journals owned by them or by other institutes/societies. The CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa also had one such journal titled ‘Mahasagar’ which ceased its publication in 1995. The article describes the online archival of this ceased journal using Open journal System (OJS). It also explains briefly the implementation processes & issues which were handled to make the journal archive system operational. The usage statistics of the journal shows that the scientific publications have value irrespective of their age
The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting user acceptance of Web-based subscription databases. Considering the reported underutilization of Web-based subscription databases and the importance of promoting them, this study aimed to provide a better understanding of the determinants of user acceptance based on a well-established theoretical foundation. This study tested an integrated model of the antecedents and consequents of user beliefs toward intended use by extending TAM, which is one of the most prominent models used to explain the effects of users’ internal beliefs and attitudes on their system usage behavior.
This study employed a cross-sectional field study using a Web survey method. The study targeted undergraduate students who have experience using the databases provided by the University Libraries. A final sample of 121 responses was analyzed. The measurement model and the structural model were tested using Partial Least Squares.
Overall, the research model was found to be effective in explaining user acceptance of Web-based subscription databases. The results of the data analysis showed that perceived usefulness had a stronger effect on user acceptance than ease of use, suggesting that user acceptance of Web-based subscription databases depends primarily on the utility they offer. Job relevance and result demonstrability showed positive effects on usefulness perceptions while output quality did not. The results indicated that user training did not have a significant effect on either usefulness or ease of use, calling for the need to re-examine the effectiveness of user training in the context of Web-based subscription databases. Terminology clarity and accessibility were found to be important determinants for ease of use of the databases. The results also suggested that although subjective norm does not directly affect intended use, it exerts a positive influence on user beliefs about the utility of Web-based subscription databases.
This article presents the results of a study performed on the interlibrary loan patron request records at the library of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, an urban commuter college with a specialized curriculum. The findings suggest that the increasing availability of electronic full-text resources has had a significant impact on the volume of faculty and graduate student interlibrary loan borrowing of nonreturnable, photocopied materials. This appears to be the case across disciplines and regardless of the currency of the needed materials. The downward trend in demand for these materials may be outpacing actual full-text availability. This may suggest that content is being replaced with convenience. This could have implications for reference librarians and their role in the research process. Declining demand may also provide interlibrary loan librarians and their staff opportunities to alter their services and develop new skills.
This article explores recent developments in the production and delivery of scholarly journal articles in digital form. It identifies the key stakeholders as authors, publishers, librarians and end users. It explores their concerns with regard to the digital journal production and delivery chain. It also explores the interrelationships of different stakeholder groups and considers how their concerns accord or conflict. The paper goes on to review cost and pricing developments. There appears to be no relationship between production costs and subscription prices of scholarly journals. Journals are priced according to what the market will bear, but, at the same time, the market is inelastic. As a result, prices have consistently increased annually at a rate well above the general inflation rate for the last two decades. Digital publishing by publishers has done nothing to relieve this problem. The ‘serials crisis’ has been the impetus for a number of developments that aim to use digital technology to reduce costs for the HE sector. These include alternative models of journal production such as that proposed by Harnad, and initiatives that aim to influence the structure of the market for scholarly journals with a view to driving prices down such as SPARC and HighWire Press. These developments are reviewed.
This research examines how electronic documents (e-documents) such as electronic journals (e-journals) could be enhanced in the electronic environment to make them more valuable to end-users. In particular, it investigates how a wide range of information searching, analysis and communicating tasks involved in interacting with e-documents could be supported within a single user interface (UI) environment, using e-journals as an example of e-documents. The research tasks completed in the study include the elicitation of user needs and wants, a comprehensive review of latest research developments in electronic publishing and e-documents, derivation of a new set of information and interaction properties that are necessary for a new digital environment to support enhanced access and value-adding to e-documents, and the design of a platform (PROPIE) to demonstrate the use of various features and functionality to support creative and effective e-document use. Providing a suite of novel features and interactive tools that could be flexibly combined, PROPIE allowed users to apply multiple novel ways to intuitively query and navigate information in e-documents. The querying and browsing processes in PROPIE were supported by various interactive and visualization techniques. A set of interface mock-ups was developed to demonstrate the potential of PROPIE in supporting the design of a new-generation of e-journals. Following that, a series of empirical evaluations of various aspects of the environment was conducted using up to a sample of 83 graduate students in three separate tiers to obtain representative users’ feedback with regard to interacting with e-journals. This paper reports the major research findings of these evaluations. In particular, it describes the types of features, tools and interaction identified as desirable and required in future e-journals systems. The conclusions were that top-ranked features of e-journals were those not available in print journals and included those of querying, navigation and visualization that contributed to enhanced access, advanced interaction and value-adding contents.
The authors compare Spanish faculty use of library services and the interest they express in value-added services and improvement actions. The results are based on data from a survey of 546 faculty in the field of science and technology. The study differentiates between the areas of pure science, engineering and architecture, and life sciences. Results reveal a general trend toward a greater use of virtual services, although some services such as in-person consultations remain popular. Interest in increasing collections is also expressed. Findings also reflect differences among the three groups.
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to present some of the results of the project “Evaluating the usage and impact of e‐journals in the UK”. The particular research reported here evaluated the use of the ScienceDirect journals database with regard to Life Sciences, Economics, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences and Physics by ten major UK research institutions. The aim of the study is to investigate researchers' digital behaviour, and to ascertain whether their use and behaviours varied by subjects and disciplines, or in relation to the institutions in which they worked.
Design/methodology/approach
– Raw logs for ScienceDirect were obtained for the period January to April 2007, were subject to deep log techniques and analysed using the Software Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).
Findings
– Typically, 5 per cent of the ScienceDirect journals viewed accounted for a third to half of all use. A high proportion of researchers entered the ScienceDirect site via a third‐party site, and this was especially so in the case of the Life Sciences and in the highest‐ranked research institutions. There were significant institutional and subject differences in information‐seeking behaviour. In the most research‐intensive institutions, per capita journal use was highest and their users spent much less time on each visit. There were significant differences of the order of 100‐300 per cent in the age of material viewed between subjects and institutions. Just four months after ScienceDirect content was opened to Google indexing, a third of traffic to the site's Physics journals came via that route.
Originality/value
– The research is one of the very few studies to investigate subject and institutional differences with regard to the information seeking and use of UK researchers, something UK academic librarians should particularly welcome.
Purpose
To examine some of the ways in which electronic resources have made an impact on traditional interlending practices and how some user‐practices have begun to change.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses both quantitative and qualitative data. The qualitative data were gathered through a questionnaire about the impact of electronic resources and the use of ILL. Comparisons of change were made with document suppliers.
Findings
The electronic full‐text is as yet unable to fully meet the needs of the researchers. Until full‐text can approximate what is available in print both in journals and in monographs, the need for document delivery services will remain.
Originality/value
An insight into the state of e‐journal penetration and its impact on document delivery in Spain – a country where few studies have been carried out in this area.
For a core journal to be developed, fruitful research articles, diversity, and continuity of research topics are essential. The main goal of this study was to trace the thematic evolution (historical development) of agricultural and natural resource academic journals (ANAJs) published by public academic institutions in Iran. To this end, the study analyzed 2,961 articles published from 1905–2003 in all publicly-funded ANAJs in all contributing agricultural and natural resource academic majors (subfields), examining the scientific domain, research subject, research method, citations, impacts, and the aggregation level of journals on academic majors and academic majors on journals. Less than 5% of the articles were qualitative and cited theoretical frameworks. Over 95% were quantitative articles as their publications progressed. Thematically, agronomy and plant breeding, with 31.68%, had the highest aggregation level among academic majors; whereas, agricultural extension and education, with 2.08%, had the lowest.
Issues surrounding the purchase of full-text databases by small hospital libraries and the development of standards for acquisitions are the focus of this article. Considerations include library strategic planning, content, material format, duplication, coverage/completeness, ease of use, archiving, licensing/copyright and affordability along with any recommended standards by various library groups including MLA. Potential effects of purchasing decisions, not only on individual libraries, but upon the information delivery system as a whole are described. Finally, full-text database criteria formulation is advocated for inclusion into a library's collection development policy. Available online and print sources relating to these issues are provided for further information.
As a part of a wider doctoral research, this paper deals with the communication and information-seeking behavior of research (PhD) students in physics and astronomy. Based on a qualitative case study of PhD students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London, this study seeks to derive behavioral patterns in information-seeking activities of PhD students. The study aims to investigate the intradisciplinary differences in information-seeking activities of physicists and astronomers. The findings show the high reliance of PhD students in physics and astronomy on electronic journals and their low use of libraries. The findings reveal differences in the information-seeking patterns of students who conduct theoretical research and those of whom are involved in experimental research. The research highlights the need for the study of small subject communities within academic disciplines instead of studying users in a broad subject area such as physics as one single domain.
The Scholarly Publishing and Resources Coalition (SPARC) endorses a number of electronic journals in several disciplines. This web-based survey of SPARC partners, combined with a features analysis of their journals, describes the participants, their journals, motives for joining SPARC, perceived benefits of electronic journals, and other data. Recent literature on electronic publication is also reviewed.
Adopting an intradisciplinary perspective, this article evaluates the information-seeking behavior of academics from different subfields of physics and astronomy. It investigates the effect of interdisciplinarity (reliance on the literature of other subjects) and the scatter of literature on two aspects of the information-seeking behavior: methods used for keeping up-to-date and for identifying articles. To this end a survey of 114 PhD students and staff at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University College London was carried out. The findings showed that the subfields that are more interdisciplinary or have a more scattered literature are more likely to use general search facilities for finding information. The study also showed that cross-disciplinary use of the literature is not necessarily an indicator of scattered literature. The study reveals intradisciplinary differences among physicists and astronomers in terms of their information-seeking behavior and highlights the risk of overlooking the characteristics of information-seeking behavior of specialized subject communities by focusing on very broad subject categories.
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