IntroductionAccess to scientific information has progressed enormously both qualitatively and quantitatively during the last two decades due to the improvement in discovering tools -alert services, databases, metasearch engines, online catalogues, publisher platforms, and so on -together with the increase in the amount of electronic information available to end users.
The psychology of tourism is a new, multidisciplinary research field. However, no systematic analyses of the scientific production in this field have been carried out to date. This study presents a bibliometric analysis of the area of psychology of tourism between 1990 and 2005. The evolution of scientific production during this period, Price's, Lotka's and Bradford's laws and citation patterns were studied. The results show a significant growth in the literature on the subject, as well as an increase in coauthorship and institutional collaboration. Bibliometric laws and empiric regularities observed in other disciplines are also present in this new research field.
This paper analyses the scientific output and impact of 731 Ph.D. holders who were awarded their doctorate at Spanish universities between 1990 and 2002. The aim was to identify any differences in the amount of scientific output and the impact of publications, in terms of citations, according to gender. The analysis revealed no significant differences in the amount of scientific output between males and females. However, the proportion of female Ph.D. holders with no postdoctoral output was significantly higher than that of their male counterparts, and the median number of papers published after Ph.D. completion was also lower among women. As regards pre-and postdoctoral research, the data showed that early scientific output may be a good predictor of subsequent productivity in both gender groups. The results also indicated that articles by female Ph.D. holders were cited significantly more often, even when selfcitations were excluded.
Despite the increase in the number of institutional repositories worldwide, most of them seem underpopulated. At the same time, scientists are apparently willing to share copies of their publications on academic social networking sites. This paper compares the availability of the scholarly output in the institutional repositories of 13 top Spanish universities and in ResearchGate (RG). Results show that just 11.1% of the articles published in 2014 by researchers at these universities were available in their institutional repository in the first quarter of 2016. However, most of the articles that were not available in institutional repositories (84.5%) were published in journals that allow the deposit of the article in some form. In contrast, 54.8% of the articles were available in full text on RG. When authors who had uploaded copies of their articles to RG but not to their institutional repository were asked about their reasons, most replies focused on two issues: ignorance about the existence or operation of the institutional repository and awareness of the advantages offered by RG.A study designed to measure the degree of compliance with a Spanish government OA mandate (Borrego, 2016) observed
We present the results of a survey on the use of electronic journals by the academic staff of the universities belonging to the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC). The results show that a high proportion of teaching and research staff are aware of the collection of electronic journals and that there is an increasing preference for the electronic to the detriment of the printed format. The collection of electronic journals is highly valued and most users expect to increase their use of them during the next few years. The results also confirm the importance of discipline and age as explanatory factors of the use of electronic journals. 1 Introduction and objectives This article presents the results of a study on the use of electronic journals by the academic staff of the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC). The CBUC is composed of the eight public Catalan universities¹ and the National Library, though it allows other institutions to participate as users. In January 2006, the CBUC had subscribed consortially to 7,200 electronic journals which can be accessed by the users of the universities belonging to the Consortium. The main aim of the study was to supplement the results obtained in earlier studies,² which had provided very interesting general information on the use of the journal packages licensed by the CBUC. However because these earlier studies had been based exclusively on the analysis of the web access data supplied by the publishers, they failed to give information on the characteristics of the users. The present study aims to extend the information available on the use of the electronic journal collection in order to broaden the available knowledge on a series of questions: • The level of awareness of the collection of electronic journals. • Whether users prefer the electronic or printed format and the advantages and disadvantages that they observe in each format. • The demographic characteristics of the users of electronic journals-discipline, age and academic position-and the effect of these variables on use.
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