Web Logs as Indices of Electronic Journal Use: Tools for Identifying a “Classic” Article

Marek, Kate; Valauskas, Edward J.

doi:10.1515/libr.2002.220

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“…These allow researchers to track the activities of individual users with some degree of certainty, and are capable of giving much more information about Web users than Brought to you by | Carleton University OCUL Authenticated Download Date | 6/14/15 12:35 PM hyperlinks. They have been used, for example, to track digital library use (Marek and Valauskas 2002). Nevertheless, the problem is that these are typically hidden or protected on a site and so are not available for public scrutiny.…”

Section: Link Analysismentioning

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Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence – A Statistical Study of the UK

Thelwall¹,

Price²

2003

Libri

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The Web has become an important tool for scholars to publicise their activities and disseminate their findings. In the information age, those who do not use it risk being bypassed. In this paper we introduce a statistical technique to assess the extent to which the broad spectrum of research areas are visible online in UK universities. Five broad subject categories are used for research, and inlink counts are used as indicators of online visibility or impact. The approach is designed to give more complete subject coverage than previous studies and to avoid the conceptual difficulties of a page classification approach, although one is used for triangulation. The results suggest that Science and Engineering dominate university Web presences, but with Humanities and Arts also achieving a high presence relative to its size, showing that high Web impact does not have to be restricted to the sciences. Research funding bodies should now consider whether action needs to be taken to ensure that opportunities are not being missed in the lower Web impact areas.

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Section: Link Analysismentioning

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Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence – A Statistical Study of the UK

Thelwall¹,

Price²

2003

Libri

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“…Perhaps the most significant challenge for bibliometrics in the long run is that the new digital libraries are producing large-scale evidence of the usage patterns of academic articles for the first time [48]. Editors are already receiving usage statistics in addition to impact factors from publishers in some cases and it seems likely that the two give useful complementary information [49,50].…”

Section: Usage Data From Digital Librariesmentioning

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Bibliometrics to webometrics

Thelwall

2008

Journal of Information Science

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Bibliometrics has changed out of all recognition since 1958; becoming established as a field, being taught widely in library and information science schools, and being at the core of a number of science evaluation research groups around the world. This was all made possible by the work of Eugene Garfield and his Science Citation Index. This article reviews the distance that bibliometrics has travelled since 1958 by comparing early bibliometrics with current practice, and by giving an overview of a range of recent developments, such as patent analysis, national research evaluation exercises, visualization techniques, new applications, online citation indexes, and the creation of digital libraries. Webometrics, a modern, fast-growing offshoot of bibliometrics, is reviewed in detail. Finally, future prospects are discussed with regard to both bibliometrics and webometrics.

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“…19 Others are using web logs as sources of information to reveal distribution levels of articles in electronic journals and their use. 20 Data derived from web logs for this purpose is becoming more reliable. The adoption by an increasing number of publishers of the COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) program, has been welcomed by library managers.…”

Section: Research Useful To Issues In Library Service and Managementmentioning

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Informing Decision-Making in Libraries: Informetric Research as Input to LIS Education and Practice

Davis¹,

Wilson²,

Horn³

2005

Australian Academic & Research Libraries

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Web Logs as Indices of Electronic Journal Use: Tools for Identifying a “Classic” Article

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence – A Statistical Study of the UK

Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence – A Statistical Study of the UK

Bibliometrics to webometrics

Informing Decision-Making in Libraries: Informetric Research as Input to LIS Education and Practice

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