Charleston Briefings: Trending Topics for Information Professionals is a thought-provoking series of brief books concerning innovation in the sphere of libraries, publishing, and technology in scholarly communication. The briefings, growing out of the vital conversations characteristic of the Charleston Conference and Against the Grain, will offer valuable insights into the trends shaping our professional lives and the institutions in which we work. The Charleston Briefings are written by authorities who provide an effective, readable overview of their topics--not an academic monograph. The intended audience is busy nonspecialist readers who want to be informed concerning important issues in our industry in an accessible and timely manner. Why are so many libraries going into the publishing business at a time when scholarly publishing is facing so many challenges? Publishing, after all, is a complex business, and the trend in the marketplace is to economies of scale and the consolidation of smaller publishers into the fold of the largest. It does not seem a propitious moment for a library to become a small independent publisher. So why are libraries doing this? How is this similar or different from the services commercial publishers provide? Does it involve offering the same services, or are new models, types of content, and needs resulting in new solutions that suit new players? This book will help the reader understand the context of library publishing. It also explores when a publishing program is a good fit for a library and provides guidance for defining, launching, or growing a publishing initiative.

This book has been written with a view to understand the validity of the perceptions of Open Access (OA) e-journals in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field. Using relevant OA journals this book presents and evaluates journals qualitatively and quantitatively. Over the last three hundred years scholarly journals have been the prime mode of transport in communicating the scholarly research process. However in the last few decades, a changing scenario has been witnessed in their form and format. OA is an innovative idea that attracts a fair amount of support and opposition around the world because it bridges the gap between digitally divided scholars by solving the pricing and permission crises that have imbalanced the scholarly communication process. Some scholars are of the opinion that OA has led to a chaotic environment where anyone can publish anything. Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Services records, in detail, the impact by accessing the journals' web site qualitatively and quantitatively in measuring the important elements such as articles, authors, countries, subjects and cited references. Finally, the book calculates the impact factor using synchronous and asynchronous approaches. - First ever study to extensively evaluate LIS Journals' Web site qualitatively by using a newly developed set of criteria - LIS OA journals are also evaluated quantitatively - Counts citations of LIS OA articles in terms of formal citations by using Google Scholar

- HEGIS/IPEDS data categories and definitions -- ARL statistics questionnaire, 1990-91.

Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker traces the development of scholarly communications from the creation of the first scientific journal through the wide diversity of professional information services today. Unlike any other book, this work is an authoritative history by the past President of Elsevier and current Professor at Long Island University, which examines the changing nature of scholarly communication throughout its history, including its research importance as well as its business value. It specifically covers four key themes: the value of scholarly content and information at various stages of it development and use; the role that technology has played on the use, importance, and value of scholarly information and research communications; the changing business models affecting the system of scholarly communication from the way it is produced to how it is distributed and consumed; and some of the implications of mobile, cloud, and social computing technologies on the future of scholarly communications. Attention is paid to analyzing the structural changes that the professional publishing community now faces. Regazzi examines research content as an economic good; how technology and business models have greatly affected the value of scholarly publishing; and the drivers of the future sustainability of our system of scholarly communication.

Traducción parcial de la Introducción: "Una de las tareas de todo trabajo de investigación es la comunicación de los resultados al resto de los colegas, es decir compartir los hallazgos con los demás de una manera establcida que se conoce popularmente como comunicación científica. La comunicación científica surgió con la publicación de la primera revista "Le Journal des sçavans" en 1665. Sin embargo, el término ganó popularidad en la década de 1970, con a incorporación a las revistas de comités científicos y la revisión "inter pares". Este módulo cuenta con cuatro unidades que cubren introducción a la comunicación académica, revistas científicas, revistas y bases de datos electronicas y la crisis de las publicaciones seriadas. Al final de este módulo, se espera que el alumno sea capaz de: - Explicar la filosofía, misión y objetivos de la comunicación científica - Describir el proceso de la comunicación científica - Identificar los diferentes canales de comunicación académica - Discutir la disfunción de la comunicación académica. En la Unidad 1, Introducción a la comunicación científica, se habla de diferentes aspectos de la comunicación académica, especialmente su génesis, la importancia y la ética de las publicaciones académicas, y diferentes canales de comunicación disponibles en la publicación académica. Algunos de estos canales se describen habitualmente como fuentes primarias, ya que proporcionan un testimonio de primera mano o evidencia directa en relación con un tema que se investiga. Históricamente, las revistas científicas fueron creadas por las sociedades científicas y otras comunidades académicas para informar de los resultados de sus trabajos de investigación concluidos o descubrimientos científicos. En la actualidad son editores privados con fines de lucro quienes han creado las principales revistas de investigación. Unidad 2, Comunicación con Peer Review, abarca dos importantes canales de publicación académica: 1 Revisión por pares en revistas, conferencias y sus procedimientos. 2. Diferentes métodos y procedimientos de revisión por pares para la publicación de literatura primaria surgidas de los estudios de investigación. La revisión por pares es esencial para la validación de la calidad de los resultados de investigación transmitidos por otros investigadores, que están sujetos al cumplimiento de las normas éticas y a la utilización de la metodología de investigación apropiada. En la Unidad 3, Revistas y bases de datos electrónicas, se analiza la aparición de publicaciones periódicas de ámbito académico y de investigación debido a la gran proliferación de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC). Las comunidades científicas y comunicaciones científicas de los países del sur están recibiendo atenciones sustantivas a través de la adaptación de las revistas electrónicas y bases de datos electrónicas en el proceso de la comunicación de la investigación. En la Unidad 4, la Crisis de Publicaciones Seriadas, se discute el coste de publicaciones revisadas por pares y los problemas que enfrentan los investigadores de los países en desarrollo. El objetivo de esta unidad es destacar los problemas y discutir posibles soluciones, incluyendo la aparición de acceso abierto como una de las soluciones, pues abrir la publicación de revistas ayuda a mitigar algunos de los problemas asociados con la crisis de las publicaciones seriadas.". (Trad. Julio Alonso Arévalo. Univ. Salamanca).

Libraries must negotiate a range of legal issues, policies and ethical guidelines when developing scholarly communication initiatives. Library Scholarly Communication Programs is a practical primer, covering these issues for institutional repository managers, library administrators, and other staff involved in library-based repository and publishing services. The title is composed of four parts. Part one describes the evolution of scholarly communication programs within academic libraries, part two explores institutional repositories and part three covers library publishing services. Part four concludes with strategies for creating an internal infrastructure, comprised of policy, best practices and education initiatives, which will support the legal and ethical practices discussed in the book. - Demonstrates the importance of creating a policy infrastructure for scholarly communication initiatives - Offers a novel combination of legal and ethical issues in a plain, approachable format - Provides samples of policy and contract language, as well as several case studies, to illustrate the concepts presented

A critical inquiry into the politics, practices, and infrastructures of open access and the reconfiguration of scholarly communication in digital societies. The Open Access Movement proposes to remove price and permission barriers for accessing peer-reviewed research work—to use the power of the internet to duplicate material at an infinitesimal cost-per-copy. In this volume, contributors show that open access does not exist in a technological or policy vacuum; there are complex social, political, cultural, philosophical, and economic implications for opening research through digital technologies. The contributors examine open access from the perspectives of colonial legacies, knowledge frameworks, publics and politics, archives and digital preservation, infrastructures and platforms, and global communities. he contributors consider such topics as the perpetuation of colonial-era inequalities in research production and promulgation; the historical evolution of peer review; the problematic histories and discriminatory politics that shape our choices of what materials to preserve; the idea of scholarship as data; and resistance to the commercialization of platforms. Case studies report on such initiatives as the Making and Knowing Project, which created an openly accessible critical digital edition of a sixteenth-century French manuscript, the role of formats in Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, and the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), a network of more than 1,200 journals from sixteen countries. Taken together, the contributions represent a substantive critical engagement with the politics, practices, infrastructures, and imaginaries of open access, suggesting alternative trajectories, values, and possible futures.

It is impossible to imagine the future of academic libraries without an extensive consideration of open access—the removal of price and permission barriers from scholarly research online. As textbook and journal subscription prices continue to rise, improvements in technology make online dissemination of scholarship less expensive, and faculty recognize the practical and philosophical appeal of making their work available to wider audiences. As a consequences, libraries have begun to consider a wide variety of open access “flavors” and business models. These new possibilities have significant impact on both library services and collection policies, and the call for new skills within library staffing. Volume 9 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is the first of two addressing the topic of open access in academic libraries and focuses on policy and infrastructure for libraries that wish to provide leadership on their campus in the transition to more open forms of scholarship. Chapters in the book discuss how to make the case for open access on campus, as well as the political and policy implications of libraries that themselves want to become publishing entities. Infrastructure issues are also addressed including metadata standards and research management services. Also considered here is how interlibrary loan, preservation and the library’s role in providing textbooks, support the concept of open access. It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.

Scientometrics have become an essential element in the practice and evaluation of science and research, including both the evaluation of individuals and national assessment exercises. Yet, researchers and practitioners in this field have lacked clear theories to guide their work. As early as 1981, then doctoral student Blaise Cronin published "The need for a theory of citing" —a call to arms for the fledgling scientometric community to produce foundational theories upon which the work of the field could be based. More than three decades later, the time has come to reach out the field again and ask how they have responded to this call. This book compiles the foundational theories that guide informetrics and scholarly communication research. It is a much needed compilation by leading scholars in the field that gathers together the theories that guide our understanding of authorship, citing, and impact.

This is one of the very few books that systematically explores the characteristics of scholarly communication outside the West. Over the last decade the advances in information technology have remodelled the foundation of scholarly communication. This book examines how countries/regions in East Asia (China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan) have reacted to the innovations in the conduct of research and in the exchange of ideas. It outlines the traditional systems of scholarly exchange in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and then concentrates on the efforts of these countries/regions to provide revolutionary ways of writing, publishing, and reading of information produced by members of the academic community. It also discusses the achievements as well as challenges in the process of technology innovations, highlighting the uniqueness of practices in scholarly communication in this part of the world. - The first book on this topic - Chapters written by experts from each country and region covered - Comprehensive introduction with historical view and critical perspective