This paper presents the findings of a citation analysis of papers written by undergraduate students. The analysis included the types of materials cited, number of citations per paper, publication year, online availability, and refereed status of materials cited. Library ownership of materials was also analyzed. Number of citations in each paper increased over the first three papers, as did the number of refereed journals cited. There was also a positive correlation between the number of citations in the paper and the word count of the paper.itation analysis is a useful method to gather information about the materials students have available when writing papers. Student citations offer an opportunity to assess library collections and services. A library's collections can be compared to works cited to see if they hold the items used most o en by students. Citations can also be analyzed to determine the format, date, and refereed status of the materials cited. This kind of data is useful in determining whether or not information literacy programs are effective in encouraging the use of scholarly sources.This project began with the desire to improve the collections and instruction services at Eastern Illinois University's Booth Library by be er understanding which sources undergraduate students were citing in their papers. We discovered that our campus had already built a depository of student papers to assess student writing. This collection included papers drawn from the entire undergraduate student body, with papers collected from the same student periodically to show changes over time. This collection of papers is unique because it represents truly authentic examples of student writing. Students were free to submit any paper they considered representative of their writing ability. As there were not strict criteria in place, and each paper was also a graded assignment, the papers submi ed by the students offer a snapshot of genuine student writing. This paper collection contains accurate representations of the papers students write for course credit. The study of this excellent collection of student work provides baseline data for future instruction and information literacy programs. It also serves to collect evidence to guide collection development by describing the types of materials students cite, their use of online resources, and the availability of materials cited in the library's collection. Literature ReviewCitation analysis has a long history as a collection development tool. Librarians have examined citations to determine the
In 2010, Booth Library began establishing an institutional repository, TheKeep, an effort that involved multiple departments within the library. Potential content recruitment for the repository included large--scale digitization of archival
INTRODUCTION Digitization of natural history collections is underway in earnest around the world and presented via platforms such as JSTOR Plants. Few natural history digital collections of specimens exist in academic institutional repositories, in spite of the fact that many universities have repositories and also hold extensive natural history collections. At Eastern Illinois University, a mid-sized public university, librarians worked with the Biological Sciences department to develop the means to digitize the 80,000 specimens of the Stover-Ebinger Herbarium collection. DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT Setting up digitization of the herbarium collection required meeting with experts associated with important projects in the field, such as Symbiota, and with acquiring the correct digitization equipment. Data management techniques had to be developed to move metadata from an Access database to Symbiota and to the institutional repository platform. These were informative steps to be taken and will enable easier development of future natural history collections. NEXT STEPS Having procured the correct equipment and expert guidance, the library is ready for move forward with digitization of this large collection. The existing 16,000 records in the repository will have images added to them, databasing and imaging will proceed for the remaining 64,000 specimens, and we will be exploring the impact of these specimen records in the “Cited by” notation in Google Scholar, as well as adding specimen field notes to enhance the collection.
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