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Impact of Digital Technology on Library Resource Sharing: Revisiting LABELNET in the Digital Age
The digital environment has facilitated resource sharing by
breaking the time and distance barriers to efficient document delivery. However, for the librarians, this phenomenon has brought more challenging technical and technological issues demanding addition of more knowledge and skills to learn and new standards to develop. The overwhelming speed and growing volume of digital information is now becoming unable to acquire and manage
by single libraries. Resource sharing, which used to be a side business in the librarianship trade, is now becoming the flagship operation in the library projects
Bibliographic Control of Serial Publications
An important problem with serials is bibliographic control. What good
does it do for libraries to select, acquire, record, catalog, and bind large
holdings of serial publications if the contents of those serials remain a mystery
to all except the few who have the opportunity to examine selected journals
of continuing personal interest and have discovered some magic way of
retaining the gist of the contents? Bibliographic control is the indexing and
abstracting of the contents or guts of what is included in the serials. It is this
control, provided by secondary publishing services, which this article will
discuss.
Just as there are problems with serials in general, there are some easily
identifiable problems connected with their bibliographic control including:
volume, overlap, costs, elements and methods, and a few other miscellaneous
considerations. Some history of bibliographic control will also put the current
problems in a helpful perspective. Hereafter "bibliographic control" will be
designated by the term "abstracting and indexing," one of these alone, or the
shorter "a & i." (I do distinguish between abstracting and indexing and believe
that they are not in order of importance and difficulty.) Although a & i do
provide bibliographic control, this paper will not discuss cataloging, tables of
contents, back-of-the-book indexes, year-end indexes, cumulative indexes, lists
of advertisers, or bibliographies.
If there is to be control, there must always be indexing. Abstracting is a
short cut, a convenience, and perhaps a bibliographic luxury which may be
now, or is fast becoming, too rich, in light of other factors to be discussed,
for library blood and for the users of libraries especially for the users of
indexes who may not depend upon the library interface. Abstracting, though,
provides a desirable control, and one which will continue to be advocated.published or submitted for publicatio
Template Mining for Information Extraction from Digital Documents
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Discipline Formation in Information Management: Case Study of Scientific and Technological Information Services
Discipline formation in information management is investigated through a case study of the origi-nation and development of information services for scientific and technical information in Australia. Particular reference is made to a case of AESIS, a national geoscience, minerals and petroleum reference database coordinated by the Australian Mineral Foundation. This study pro-vided a model for consideration of similar services and their contribution to the discipline. The perspective adopted is to consider information management at operational, analytical and strate-gic levels. Political and financial influences are considered along with analysis of scope, perform-ance and quality control. Factors that influenced the creation, transitions, and abeyance of the service are examined, and some conclusions are drawn about an information management disci-pline being exemplified by such services
A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus are different? In which aspects these two databases are similar? Or, if the researchers are forced to choose one of them, which one should they prefer? For answering these questions, these two databases will be compared based on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics
Library Resources: Procurement, Innovation and Exploitation in a Digital World
The possibilities of the digital future require new models for procurement, innovation and exploitation. Emma Crowley and Chris Spencer describe the skills staff need to deliver resources in hybrid and digital environments. The chapter demonstrates the innovative ways that librarians use to procure and exploit the wealth of resources available in a digital world. They also describe the technological developments that can be adopted to improve workflow processes and they highlight the challenges faced on this fascinating journey
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