Publishing in Discipline-Specific Open Access Journals: Opportunities and Outreach for Librarians

Tomaszewski, Robert; Poulin, Sonia; MacDonald, Karen

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2012.11.008

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“…Our results confirm that, at least in the Computer Science field, the proliferation of predatory journals is high, and increasing with time, at least until 2014, consistently with other results found in the literature (Beall, 2013;Dyrud, 2014;Beall, 2012aBeall, , 2012bBeall, , 2014Shen and Björk, 2015;Dadkhah et al, 2015Dadkhah et al, , 2016Kratky, 2013;Jean-Claude, 2008;McGuigan, 2013;Giuseppe, 2013;Crawford, 2011;Doyle et al, 2004;Markowitz et al, 2014;Suber, 2008;Bohannon, 2013;Van Noorden, 2013;Butler, 2013;Schroter and Tite, 2006;Brown, 2004a, 2004b;Warlick and Vaughan, 2007;Nariani and Fernandez, 2012;Emily and Selenay, 2008;Djuric, 2015;Claire, 2013;Xia et al, 2015;Bartholomew, 2014;MSU Libraries, 2017;Orduña-Malea et al, 2015;Aguillo, 2011;Beel and Bela, 2009;Schroter et al, 2005;Gutierrez et al, 2015;Tomaszewski et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 88%

Incidence of predatory journals in computer science literature

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Stockton

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Purpose-One of the main tasks of a researcher is to properly communicate the results he obtained. The choice of the journal in which to publish the work is therefore very important. However, not all journals have suitable characteristics for a correct dissemination of scientific knowledge. Some publishers turn out to be unreliable and, against a payment, they publish whatever researchers propose. The authors call "predatory journals" these untrustworthy journals. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the incidence of predatory journals in computer science literature and present a tool that was developed for this purpose. Design/methodology/approach-The authors focused their attention on editors, universities and publishers that are involved in this kind of publishing process. The starting point of their research is the list of scholarly open-access publishers and open-access stand-alone journals created by Jeffrey Beall. Specifically, they analysed the presence of predatory journals in the search results obtained from Google Scholar in the engineering and computer science fields. They also studied the change over time of such incidence in the articles published between 2011 and 2015. Findings-The analysis shows that the phenomenon of predatory journals somehow decreased in 2015, probably due to a greater awareness of the risks related to the reputation of the authors. Originality/value-We focused on computer science field, using a specific sample of queries. We developed a software to automatically make queries to the search engine, and to detect predatory journals, using Beall's list.

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confidence: 88%

Incidence of predatory journals in computer science literature

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Stockton

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“…The findings of this study suggest that Canadian academic librarians conduct and publish research on an occasional or regular basis. This is unsurprising, as previous studies have documented regular research by academic librarians (Henry and Neville 2004;Hildreth and Aytac 2007;Sorensen and DeLong 2016;Tomaszewski, Poulin, and MacDonald 2013). Findings suggest that librarian research is required either as part of the librarian job description or to obtain promotion or tenure, and that where it is not required it is nevertheless encouraged.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…In practice, librarian research is diverse; it may include research in LIS as well as in other fields. Librarian research ranges from practical and applied to theoretical, and it can cover a wide array of topics (Henry and Neville 2004;Hildreth and Aytac 2007;Sorensen and DeLong 2016;Tomaszewski, Poulin, and MacDonald 2013). Librarians regularly publish their research in peer-reviewed journals and present their work at academic conferences (Hildreth and Aytac 2007).…”

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A Survey Exploring the Perceptions of Academic Librarians as Researchers

Babb

2019

Can. J. Acad. Lib.

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This study examines the perceptions of academic librarian research at six Canadian prairie-province universities. An understanding of how librarian research is viewed and valued at academic institutions can lay the groundwork to improve the state of librarian research in the future. Surveys were sent to librarians and non-librarian faculty in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences at these universities to gather information about how both groups perceive academic librarian research. Thirty librarians and 30 non-librarian faculty responded to the survey. In general, research was viewed as an important and positive aspect of librarianship, though one that was of secondary importance to service. Non-librarian faculty largely lacked awareness about librarian research, and librarians reported being unsupported in their research needs by their institutions. Librarian research collaboration with non-librarian faculty was of high interest to both groups of respondents. The results of this survey highlight the importance of research to academic librarianship while indicating that there is room for further improvement by raising the profile of librarian research outside of the library, fostering collaborative research projects, and providing librarians with the support necessary to engage in research activities.

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“…Libraries and information professionals have always been involved in supporting access to information and knowledge and they play a vital and active role in the success of the open access movement [4,5]. One way to gain an understanding of the discourse around open access is to study the views of the library and information science (LIS) community.…”

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Barriers to Open Access Publishing: Views from the Library Literature

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2015

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Publishing in Discipline-Specific Open Access Journals: Opportunities and Outreach for Librarians

Cited by 16 publications

References 36 publications

Incidence of predatory journals in computer science literature

Incidence of predatory journals in computer science literature

A Survey Exploring the Perceptions of Academic Librarians as Researchers

Barriers to Open Access Publishing: Views from the Library Literature

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