Applied Evaluative Informetrics: Part 1

This manuscript is a preprint version of Part 1 (General Introduction and Synopsis) of the book Applied Evaluative Informetrics, to be published by Springer in the summer of 2017. This book presents an introduction to the field of applied evaluative informetrics, and is written for interested scholars and students from all domains of science and scholarship. It sketches the field's history, recent achievements, and its potential and limits. It explains the notion of multi-dimensional research performance, and discusses the pros and cons of 28 citation-, patent-, reputation- and altmetrics-based indicators. In addition, it presents quantitative research assessment as an evaluation science, and focuses on the role of extra-informetric factors in the development of indicators, and on the policy context of their application. It also discusses the way forward, both for users and for developers of informetric tools.Comment: The posted version is a preprint (author copy) of Part 1 (General Introduction and Synopsis) of a book entitled Applied Evaluative Bibliometrics, to be published by Springer in the summer of 201

Mastering the Lawless Science of Our Law : A Story of Legal Citation Indexes

Ms. Ogden presents a history of American legal citation indexes, covering early nineteenth-century attempts, the development of modern citator systems by Frank Shepard and others, online citation systems, and the potential for future improvements in an essential tool of legal research

Special Libraries, October 1953

Volume 44, Issue 8https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1953/1007/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, February 1960

Volume 51, Issue 2https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1960/1001/thumbnail.jp

Pioneer, Popularizer and Politician: John Clark Ridpath as a Public Intellectual

On May 28, 1894, John Clark Ridpath wrote Indiana University Professor James Woodburn and described the effort he had expended to complete his most recent historical volumes. “I have just returned from a long absence in New York,” he wrote, “where I have been detained for eighteen months with the publication of my work on the Great Races of Mankind. More recently, I have been in the Bermudas, whither I went in early April, on account of a little break in my health, following quite illogically the completion of a task to which I have devoted five and a half years of work, besides a good part of the preceding ten years in study and preparation.”1 Although Ridpath exhausted substantial effort to produce massive amounts of scholarship he published over his lifetime, those efforts have been consistently ignored by scholars of historical writing. As a writer Ridpath was a transformational figure in historical scholarship as it moved from primitive, storytelling methods of the past and into the infancy of professionalization. As a popular historian Ridpath produced over one hundred volumes during his career. In light of the quantity of histories Ridpath published and sold, his often overlooked contributions to American historical literature and intellectual discourse needs reconsideration

Virginia celebrates the Yorktown centennial of 1881

This study chronicles the planning, execution, and aftermath of the Yorktown Centennial of October 1881 in Yorktown, Richmond, and Norfolk. Beyond its original expectation of memorializing the one hundredth anniversary of the last major battle for independence, as the first nationally prominent celebration to occur on Southern soil after the Civil War, it made reconciliation among the states a significant aspect of the occasion. Also, it marked the first national gathering after the assassination of President James A. Garfield as well as the occasion for the first public speech given by the new President, Chester A. Arthur. The presence of numerous foreign dignitaries added an element of international relations and helped to strengthen European ties

The University of Dayton Exponent

Published monthly in the interest of the students of St. Mary\u27s Institute. Contents include Essays, Editorials, Exchanges, Alumni Notes, University Chronicle, and Athletic Noteshttps://ecommons.udayton.edu/exponent/1228/thumbnail.jp

The Contribution of a Layman to the Restoration Movement

The name of Tomas Wharton Phillips, (1835-1912), occurs quite frequently in the history of the Disciples of Christ. Probably his family name is best known by its association with Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma. There has also been a renewed interest in him through the recent completion of the T.W. Phillips Memorial Library in Nashville, Tennessee, now the headquarters of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society. This general interst generated into a special interst, when, during the lectures on the history of the Disciples of Christ, a remark was made to the effect that there was a need for a more adequte understanding of the place of T.W. Phillips in the Brotherhood of Disciples of Christ. This promoted the undertaking of a study of this layman