Academic Library Collection Support for Supply Chain Management

Many business schools now offer degrees in supply chain management (SCM); yet a review of the library literature shows no articles devoted to the topic of academic library support of SCM programs. This article provides practical information for academic librarians on developing collections to support SCM degrees. The article describes basic supply chain management concepts and identifies relevant Library of Congress subject headings for analyzing book collections. Since the largest collection costs in supporting SCM programs are for maintaining serial subscriptions, the author uses a number of techniques to compile lists of recommended scholarly journals and trade periodicals

The Internationalization of the American Journal of International Law: Reality or Chimera (A Survey)

In 2006 the American Society of International Law celebrated its centennial anniversary. In 2007 it is the turn of the Society\u27s flagship publication, the American Journal of International Law, to celebrate its centennial volume. This first-of-its-kind detailed survey dissects the Journal\u27s international attribute: how truly international and how American has this prestigious publication proved in the course of a century? How accommodating a host has it been to international lawyers with no U.S. affiliation or with \u27deviating\u27 views on international law? The research has been multi-fold; we examine the content, the structure and the thematology of the Journal, measuring foreign membership on the editorial board, non-U.S. academic affiliation of individual contributors, and the thematic patterns of the published materials. We document traces of an internationalist trend during the Society\u27s first years and in the post-War volumes of the Journal, in unsurprising harmony with the prevalent themes of the US foreign policy of the time. However, we find that, significantly, the overall percentage of contributions from non-\u27anglophone\u27 authors has remained relatively low, despite signs of an encouraging increase in recent years. We then weigh our findings against the Founders\u27 vision of the Journal as a vibrant global academic forum. Even though categorical assertions are avoided, we conclude by suggesting that the Journal intensify the effort to expand its reach to the citizens of the world and become more inclusive of foreign legal scholarship

Citational analysis of the accounting education literature, 1956-1990

Citations were collected for education articles published from 1956-1990. The journals selected for the study are International Journal of Accounting Education and Research (IJAER), Issues in Accounting Education (IAE), Journal of Accountancy (JOA), Journal of Accounting Education (JOAE), and The Accounting Review (TAR). An analysis of the data has revealed: (1) the maximum average citation per paper peaked around 1981-82; (2) the 1976-1985 decade was the most productive in terms of the number of articles, average number of pages per article, and the average number of citations per paper; (3) JOA had the highest average citations per paper; (4) sixty-seven percent of the twelve most highly cited papers in accounting education were published in TAR; (5) accounting education scholars tend to cite very recent literature; (6) the immediacy index for the accounting education literature is approximately the same as that for agency theory literature; and (7) the content of education articles has changed from professional development, five year accounting programs, student testing and teaching aids to improving upon methodologies used to conduct education research and the ranking of accounting faculty and accounting concepts

Analyzing European Union Politics

The speed and depth with which the European Communities/ European Union has evolved is breathtaking and has radically shaped the life of the continent. Ever since the beginning of this ambitious economic and political project, scholars around the world have tried to explain the underlying logic behind it and the mechanisms of its functioning. Thus, a plethora of studies developed alongside the evolution of the EU. SENT (Network of European Studies) is an innovative and ambitious project which brought together about 100 partners from the EU member states, candidate and associated countries, and other parts of the world. It was a far reaching project aimed to overcome disciplinary and geographical- linguistic boundaries in order to assess the state of EU studies today, as well as the idea of Europe as transmitted by schools, national politicians, the media, etc. SENT’s main goal was to map European studies, in order to get a comprehensive picture of the evolution of European studies over the last decades in different disciplines and countries. This approach permitted to achieve a better understanding of the direction these studies are now taking. Five disciplines were identified where EU studies have particularly evolved: law, politics, economics, history, and social and cultural studies. The mapping of EU studies thus includes a review of the most studied issues in EU studies today, the main academic schools, the most influential journals and books published, but it also shows how local realities and national identities affect the study and teaching of Europe around the world. In addition, an important work was done in mapping and discussing teaching methodologies in relation to European studies with the aim of introducing and diffusing the most up-to-date techniques