Developing a Concept of Collection for the Digital Age

Casserly, Mary F.

doi:10.1353/pla.2002.0073

Cited by 19 publications

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“…Regardless of the publishing model-OA, subscriptionbased, or otherwise-readers must be able to identify the documents that meet their needs, then to determine how and where those documents are available. Likewise, information agencies collect online resources not just by providing access but by facilitating the processes of information discovery, retrieval, interpretation, and preservation (Casserly, 2002;Collins & Walters, 2010;Walters, Demas, Stewart, & Weintraub, 1998).…”

Section: Major Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bibliographic index coverage of open‐access journals in six subject areas

Walters

Linvill

2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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We investigate the extent to which open-access (OA) journals and articles in biology, computer science, economics, history, medicine, and psychology are indexed in each of 11 bibliographic databases. We also look for variations in index coverage by journal subject, journal size, publisher type, publisher size, date of first OA issue, region of publication, language of publication, publication fee, and citation impact factor. Two databases, Biological Abstracts and PubMed, provide very good coverage of the OA journal literature, indexing 60 to 63% of all OA articles in their disciplines. Five databases provide moderately good coverage (22-41%), and four provide relatively poor coverage (0-12%). OA articles in biology journals, English-only journals, highimpact journals, and journals that charge publication fees of $1,000 or more are especially likely to be indexed. Conversely, articles from OA publishers in Africa, Asia, or Central/South America are especially unlikely to be indexed. Four of the 11 databases index commercially published articles at a substantially higher rate than articles published by universities, scholarly societies, nonprofit publishers, or governments. Finally, three databases-EBSCO Academic Search Complete, ProQuest Research Library, and Wilson OmniFile-provide less comprehensive coverage of OA articles than of articles in comparable subscription journals.

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Section: Major Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bibliographic index coverage of open‐access journals in six subject areas

Walters

Linvill

2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…The introduction of digital resources into library catalogs provided a valuable opportunity to review how collection development and management functions were addressed in libraries (Buckland, 1995; Atkinson, 1998). This was also an opportunity to “reconceptualize collection” (Lee, 2000; Casserly, 2002) in terms of how collections serve particular purposes for stakeholders, instead of relying on traditional notions of collections rooted in physical proximity. This shift in focus had a corresponding impact on evaluating user needs and how they can be met (Covi and Cragin, 2004; Kaczmarek, 2006).…”

Section: The Concept Of a Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are collections sets?

Wickett

Renear

Furner

2011

Proc. Am. Soc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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The concept of a collection plays key roles in library, museum, and archival practice, and is arguably fundamental to information organization systems in general. Locating collection concepts in a reasonably robust ontology should have a number of practical advantages, including revealing inferencing opportunities and supporting consistency and coherence in system design and modeling. Although research practices involving collections have been studied empirically there has been surprisingly little attention given to the formal analysis of the concept itself, or to related notions like collection membership. With this paper we hope to convene that discussion, beginning with the question: Are collections sets? We consider in detail the substantial arguments against collections being a kind of set, but argue that at least one version of that claim cannot yet be ruled out. As ontology decisions, both practical and theoretical, are often more a matter of weighing competing considerations than making decisive arguments, progress on this question will probably require the comparison of alternative theories. We invite the information science community to join us in exploring the possibilities.

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“…The notion of developing the so-called 'hybrid library' has received much attention in the professional library and information literature. [5] Academic librarians find themselves in a complex, transitional phase as they attempt to bridge the gap between ongoing traditional information needs and a range of new expectations that the digital age has brought to university campuses. Because of massive investments in the printed word over generations, it is not a simple matter for libraries to simply 'go digital'.…”

Section: Digital Library Collection Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Going Digital: The Transformation of Scholarly Communication and Academic Libraries

Dunlap

2008

Policy Futures in Education

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Not since the age of Gutenberg has an information upheaval so thoroughly disrupted the processes of scholarly knowledge creation, management and preservation as the digital revolution currently under way. Academic libraries have traditionally been structured to effectively facilitate the access, use and storage of mostly static, print-based research collections. In the midst of sweeping change university libraries are attempting to re-imagine services, embrace emerging technologies, reallocate resources and provide proactive leadership in a new digital knowledge society. This article provides both historical perspective and a forward-looking examination into how academic libraries are transforming themselves to both cope with, and help shape, unprecedented transitions in scholarly research and communication.ISAAC HUNTER DUNLAP writes and speaks frequently on the topics of database-driven web development, web accessibility, Open Source software, library digitization initiatives and related areas. An experienced web developer, he has created numerous websites, web database applications and digital library collections over the last decade. He is the author of Open Source

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Developing a Concept of Collection for the Digital Age

Cited by 19 publications

References 17 publications

Bibliographic index coverage of open‐access journals in six subject areas

Bibliographic index coverage of open‐access journals in six subject areas

Are collections sets?

Going Digital: The Transformation of Scholarly Communication and Academic Libraries

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