Perpustakaan Universiti Sains Malaysia dan kesejahteraan sosial: apa peranan kami?

Kerja komuniti merupakan satu proses menghasilkan dan mengekalkan penyesuaian di antara sumber-sumber kebajikan sosial dan keperluan kebajikan sosial di dalam satu kawasan geografi atau bidang perkhidmatan yang khusus. Universiti Sains Malaysia sebagai sebuah universiti perintis berusaha untuk memperkasakan dan menonjolkan bakat masa hadapan dan mengupayakan golongan terkebawah demi mentransformasi kesejahteraan sosioekonomi ke arah perkembangan minda dan perluasan ilmu bagi peningkatan taraf pendidikan seluruh lapisan masyarakat. Perpustakaan Universiti Sains Malaysia (PUSM) sebagai gedung ilmu memainkan peranan yang amat penting dalam merealisasikan kesejahteraan sosial dalam masyarakat. Pembudayaan membaca sebagai satu mekanisme utama untuk meningkatkan ilmu amat sinonim dengan perpustakaan

Connecting Library with APEX Community

Hamzah Sendut Library as an APEX university library has taken a more proactive approach to rebrand promotional and outreach programs. A more creative, unique and inno-vative style have been used to ensure that the library's mis-sion in reaching out to the users is accomplished. ‘Skuad Pelanggan’ was formed to increase the effectiveness of library’s engagement with customers. The ultimate goal is to reach out to customers, increase the usage of library facilities, improving the relevance of the existence of the library in the campus community and provide additional value to the library users. Important aspects emphasized in the program include teaching and learning supports, with the focus on research and consultation. Efforts conducted through myPHS programs, exhibitions, and virtual market-ing have established positive impacts and realization of library’s relevance by the campus community

Open Access Publication of Universiti Sains Malaysia: a Bibliometric Analysis

Open Access (OA) is the new publishing model that allows unrestricted access and reuse of research outputs. OA accelerates discovery in the sense that researchers can freely read and build on new findings based on other research. While public seems to welcome more involvement in OA among academics, many researchers are still discussing about the challenges that they face to publish with OA journals including the issue of article processing charge (APC) and the quality of OA journals. This paper examines several aspects relate to OA publication such as publication productivity, citation impact, subject coverage, and publishing cost of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) based on SCOPUS data from 2013 to 2015. The findings show that School of Medical Sciences, Physics and Pharmacy dominated the OA publications. Thus, it also indicates that science-based researchers are highly inclined towards publishing in OA as compared to non-science researchers. Top three OA journals in the list are Plos One (Multidisciplinary), Acta Chrystallographica Section E (Chemistry) and Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering (Engineering, Geology). Most of the authors tend to publish in Quartile 3 journals (43%), followed by Q2 (28%), Q1 (16%) and Q4 (13%). However, with regard to citation impact per paper (average), every paper in Q1 journal received 6.25 citations, followed by Q2 (2.8 citations), Q3 (1.33 citations) and Q4 (0.87 citation). The APC range of OA publication found to be from RM0 to RM15, 000 per paper. The study provides useful insights about OA publication among USM researchers which can guide other researchers who wish to engage with OA in the future. Further study can be done by interviewing authors, to further explore on the OA research funding, strategy in choosing OA journals to publish in and also the motivation in publishing with OA