Viewing and Reading Behaviour in a Virtual Environment: The Full-Text Download and What Can Be Read Into It

This article aims to focus on usage data in respect to full-text downloads of journal articles, which is considered an important usage (satisfaction) metric by librarians and publishers. The purpose is to evaluate the evidence regarding full-text viewing by pooling together data on the full-text viewing of tens of thousands of users studied as part of a number of investigations of e-journal databases conducted during the Virtual Scholar research programme

New ways of building, showcasing, and measuring scholarly reputation

International audienceThe article reports on a study of the views and actions of nearly a hundred scholars – mostly academic researchersfrom four European countries and four disciplines – in regard to scholarly reputation in the Science 2.0 age. It specifi cally looks at the role that ‘emerging’ reputational mechanisms and platforms are playing in building, maintaining, and showcasing scholarly reputation in the digital age. Popular examples of such platforms are ResearchGate and Academia.edu. Data were obtained through one-to-one interviews and focus groups, supported by desk research. The main fi ndings were: (a) it is early days and uptake is light and patchy with platforms largely used for non-reputational purposes, such as sharing documents; (b) most users were passive and did not fully engage with the social aspects of the platforms; (c) the reputational focus was very much on just one scholarly activity (research), on just two outputs of that activity (publications and conferences) and one measurement of that activity (citations), but there are the stirrings of change; (d) young researchers are set to profi t most from the emerging platforms

Black layer coatings for the photolithographic manufacture of diffraction gratings

A black layer coating for an Al/photoresist interface is described with a reflectance less than 0.1% for 413 nm s-polarized light incident at 25\uba. It is made of space-compatible materials and its RMS roughness is less than 15\uc5.NRC publication: Ye

Toward perfect antireflection coatings. 3. Experimental results obtained with the use of Reststrahlen materials

NRC publication: Ye

Black layer coatings for the photolithographic manufacture of diffraction gratings

A black layer coating for an aluminum\u2013photoresist interface with a reflectance less than 0.1% for 413-nm, s-polarized light incident at 25\ub0 is described. It is made of space-compatible materials, and its rms roughness is less than 15 \uc5.Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye

The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future

Purpose – This article is an edited version of a report commissioned by the British Library and JISC to identify how the specialist researchers of the future (those born after 1993) are likely to access and interact with digital resources in five to ten years' time. The purpose is to investigate the impact of digital transition on the information behaviour of the Google Generation and to guide library and information services to anticipate and react to any new or emerging behaviours in the most effective way. Design/methodology/approach – The study was virtually longitudinal and is based on a number of extensive reviews of related literature, survey data mining and a deep log analysis of a British Library and a JISC web site intended for younger people. Findings – The study shows that much of the impact of ICTs on the young has been overestimated. The study claims that although young people demonstrate an apparent ease and familiarity with computers, they rely heavily on search engines, view rather than read and do not possess the critical and analytical skills to assess the information that they find on the web. Originality/value – The paper reports on a study that overturns the common assumption that the “Google generation” is the most web-literate