Published Librarian Research, 2008 through 2012: Analyses and Perspectives

This research paper reviews published library science literature from 2008 through 2012 using a purposive sample of 13 Library and Information Science (LIS) journals. The texts of 1,778 LIS articles were analyzed and classified as research versus non-research. Of these articles, 769 (43.1%) determined as research were examined in order to collect data on numerous variables including authorship, topic, type of research, data collection, and data analysis techniques. The selected LIS journals draw a representative sample of practitioner research with 438 (57%) research articles solely written by practitioners, 110 (14.3%) research articles written collaboratively by at least one practitioner and one academic. The overall authorship pattern was widely multi-authored with 64.5% of the research articles written by two or more authors. It is hoped that the results of this investigation will provide insight for more extensive collaborative librarianship research in the future

Revealing the online network between university and industry: the case of Turkey

The present paper attempts to explore the relationship between the Turkish academic and industry systems by mapping the relationships under web indicators. We used the top 100 Turkish universities and the top 10 Turkish companies in 10 industrial sectors in order to observe the performance of web impact indicators. Total page count metric is obtained through Google Turkey and the pure link metrics have been gathered from Open Site Explorer. The indicators obtained both for web presence and web visibility indicated that there are significant differences between the group of academic institutions and those related to companies within the web space of Turkey. However, this current study is exploratory and should be replicated with a larger sample of both Turkish universities and companies in each sector. Likewise, a longitudinal study rather than sectional would eliminate or smooth fluctuations of web data (especially URL mentions) as a more adequate understanding of the relations between Turkish institutions, and their web impact, is reached.Orduña Malea, E.; Aytac, S. (2015). Revealing the online network between university and industry: the case of Turkey. Scientometrics. 105(3):1849-1866. doi:10.1007/s11192-015-1596-4S184918661053Aguillo, I. F., Granadino, B., Ortega, J. L., & Prieto, J. A. (2006). Scientific research activity and communication measured with cybermetrics indicators. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(10), 1296–1302.Arslan, M. L., & Seker, S. E. (2014). Web based reputation index of Turkish Universities. International Journal of E-Education E-Business E-Management and E-Learning, 4(3), 197–203.Aytac, S. (2010). International scholarly collaboration in science, technology and medicine and social science of Turkish scientists. The International Information & Library Review, 42(4), 227–241.Bahçıvan, E. (ed.) (2013). Turkey’s Top 500 Industrial enterprises 2012. The Journal of the Istanbul Chamber of Industry, 48(569), 1–124 (special issue).Barabasi, A. L., & Albert, R. (1999). Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks. Science, 286(5439), 509–512.Cankir, B., Arslan, M. L., & Seker, S. E. (2015). Web Reputation Index for XU030 Quote Companies. Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, 3(2), 110–113.Faba-Fernández, C., Guerrero-Bote, Vicente P., & Moya-Anegón, F. (2003). Data mining in a closed web environment. Scientometrics, 58(3), 623–640.Fruchterman, T. M., & Reingold, E. M. (1991). Graph drawing by force‐directed placement. Software: Practice and experience, 21(11), 1129–1164.García-Santiago, L., & De Moya-Anegón, F. (2009). Using co-outlinks to mine heterogeneous networks. Scientometrics, 79(3), 681–702.Jolliffe, I. (2002). Principal component analysis. New York: Springer.Khan, G. F., & Park, H. W. (2011). Measuring the triple helix on the web: Longitudinal trends in the university–industry–government relationship in Korea. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(12), 2443–2455.Leydesdorff, L., & Etzkowitz, H. (1996). Emergence of a triple helix of university–industry–government relations. Science and public policy, 23(5), 279–286.Leydesdorff, L., & Park, H. W. (2014). Can synergy in triple-helix relations be quantified? A review of the development of the triple-helix indicator. arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.2342.Meyer, M. (2000). What is special about patent citations? Differences between scientific and patent citations. Scientometrics, 49(1), 93–123.Meyer, M., Siniläinen, T., & Utecht, J. T. (2003). Towards hybrid triple helix indicators: A study of university-related patents and a survey of academic inventors. Scientometrics, 58(2), 321–350.Minguillo, D., & Thelwall, M. (2012). Mapping the network structure of science parks: An exploratory study of cross-sectoral interactions reflected on the web. Aslib Proceedings, 64(4), 332–357.Montesinos, P., Carot, J. M., Martínez, J. M., & Mora, F. (2008). Third mission ranking for world class universities: Beyond teaching and research. Higher Education in Europe, 33(2/3), 259–271.Orduna-Malea, E., & López-Cózar, E. D. (2014). Google scholar metrics evolution: An analysis according to languages. Scientometrics, 98(3), 2353–2367.Ortega, J. L., Orduna-Malea, E., & Aguillo, I. F. (2014). Are web mentions accurate substitutes for inlinks for Spanish universities? Online Information Review, 38(1), 59–77.Priem, J., & Hemminger, B. H. (2010). Scientometrics 2.0: New metrics of scholarly impact on the social Web. First Monday, 15(7). http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2874 . Accessed 31 December 2014.Romero-Frías, E. (2011). Googling companies-a webometric approach to business studies. Leading Issues in Business Research Methods, 7(1), 93–106.Romero-Frías, E., & Vaughan, L. (2010). Patterns of web linking to heterogeneous groups of companies: The case of stock exchange indexes. Aslib Proceedings, 62(2), 144–164.Stuart, D., & Thelwall, M. (2006). Investigating triple helix relationships using URL citations: A case study of the UK West Midlands automobile industry. Research Evaluation, 15(2), 97–106.Thelwall, M. (2004). Link analysis: An information science approach. San Diego: Academic Press.Thelwall, M. (2014). A brief history of altmetrics. Research trends, 37, 3–4. http://www.researchtrends.com/issue-37-june-2014/a-brief-history-of-altmetrics/ . Accessed 31 December 2014.Thelwall, M., & Harries, G. (2003). The connection between the research of a university and counts of links to its Web pages: An investigation based upon a classification of the relationships of pages to the research of the host university. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(7), 594–602.Vaughan, L. (2004). Exploring website features for business information. Scientometrics, 61(3), 467–477.Vaughan, L. (2006). Visualizing linguistic and cultural differences using Web co-link data. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(9), 1178–1193.Vaughan, L., & Yang, R. (2012). Web data as academic and business quality estimates: A comparison of three data sources. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(10), 1960–1972.Vaughan, L., Gao, Y., & Kipp, M. (2006). Why are hyperlinks to business Websites created? A content analysis. Scientometrics, 67(2), 291–300.Vaughan, L., & Romero-Frías, E. (2012). Exploring web keyword analysis as an alternative to link analysis: A multi-industry case. Scientometrics, 93(1), 217–232.Vaughan, L., & Thelwall, M. (2003). Scholarly use of the web: What are the key inducers of links to journal web sites? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 29–38.Vaughan, L., & Wu, G. (2004). Links to commercial web sites as a source of business information. Scientometrics, 60(3), 487–496.Wilkinson, D., & Thelwall, M. (2013). Search markets and search results: The case of Bing. Library & Information Science Research, 35(4), 318–325

Strategies for Teaching Information Literacy to English Language Learners

Academic librarians are encountering a growing number of English Language Learners (ELLs) every day, as our classrooms have become more linguistically diverse every year. In this dramatically changing environment, academic librarians are expected to meet the needs of increasingly diverse students speaking multiple languages. The purpose of this paper is to present widely used teaching strategies to support ELLs based on an exhaustive literature review. Study also suggests collaboration among ESL or classroom instructors and librarians to enhance semester-long learning experience

Universities through the Eyes of Bibliographic Databases: A Retroactive Growth Comparison of Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the suitability of GS's url-based method as a valid approximation of universities' academic output measures, taking into account three aspects (retroactive growth, correlation, and coverage). To do this, a set of 100 Turkish universities were selected as a case study. The productivity in Web of Science (WoS), Scopus and GS (2000 to 2013) were captured in two different measurement iterations (2014 and 2018). In addition, a total of 18,174 documents published by a subset of 14 research-focused universities were retrieved from WoS, verifying their presence in GS within the official university web domain. Findings suggest that the retroactive growth in GS is unpredictable and dependent on each university, making this parameter hard to evaluate at the institutional level. Otherwise, the correlation of productivity between GS (url-based method) and WoS and Scopus (selected sources) is moderately positive, even though it varies depending on the university, the year of publication, and the year of measurement. Finally, only 16% out of 18,174 articles analyzed were indexed in the official university website, although up to 84% were indexed in other GS sources. This work proves that the url-based method to calculate institutional productivity in GS is not a good proxy for the total number of publications indexed in WoS and Scopus, at least in the national context analyzed. However, the main reason is not directly related to the operation of GS, but with a lack of universities' commitment to open access.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figures and 7 table

Diversity and Multiculturalism of LIS Education

The purpose of the panel is to raise the common questions about diversity and multiculturalism training in library schools, and engage the audience in a meaningful discussion about diversity and multiculturalism. We will discuss the importance of diversity and multiculturalism training in library and information science curricula by examining multiple countries/regions as case studies. We would be seeking answers to two major questions: What do responsible library science educators need to do to educate librarians on diversity/multiculturalism/internationalism? and How can we educate future librarians so that they will have a greater perspective on diversity and multiculturalism?

The Karamanlidika Digital Library Project: Connecting Karamanlides Memories

ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to outline how an international initiative to connect Karamanlides cultural heritage could be pursued by using digital library technologies. The Karamanlides, also known as the Karamanli people, are those who spoke Ottoman Turkish and wrote in Greek characters in Asia Minor (Anatoli) during the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The first step of the research was to identify the available digital Karamanlides cultural artifacts via social media tools and pinpoint the useful metadata. The next step focused on the analysis of these user generated metadata derived from user uploaded images. Findings suggested that these unique cultural artifacts have been scattered all over the World Wide Web and lack descriptive metadata. Conceptual framework for the proposed digital library project will be discussed

Scientific International Collaboration of Turkey, Greece, Poland, and Portugal: A Bibliometric Analysis

ABSTRACT In this work, a bibliometric research method was used where co-authorships are regarded as an indicator of international research collaboration of Turkish, Greek, Polish, and Portuguese scientists; for comparison purposes scientists from the mainstream countries such as Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The seventeen years (1990-2006) of scientific research collaboration of the aforementioned countries with the G7 nations (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA, and Canada) was examined by using ISI Web of Science Database. Findings reveal that, Turkey clearly is experiencing a remarkable proportional co-authorship growth rate with the G7 countries in comparison to Greece, Poland

Contribution of carbon footprint research towards the triple bottom line of sustainability

Carbon footprint (CF) research has received increasing attention in recent years, as evidenced by a rise in publications and citations, reflecting a growing concern for the environmental impact of human activities. However, the alignment of this scientific literature with the three dimensions of sustainability performance provided by the TBL paradigm (people, planet, and profit) has received limited attention. This study addresses this research gap by undertaking a large-scale bibliometric analysis of 9032 Web of Science (WoS) publications from 1992 to 2020. At the macro (journals) and micro (papers) levels, a methodology approach to classify research publications according to TBL dimensions was designed. The results indicate that the output and impact of CF research are balanced with respect to the environmental (planet) and economic (prosperity/profit) dimensions, while the social impact is balanced with respect to the people+profit dimensions. Other than that, “Affordable and Clean Energy” (3761 publications) and “Climate Action” (3091 publications) are the most frequently represented (and interconnected) objectives. The results obtained contribute to a greater understanding of the contribution of CF research to the attainment of the SDGs