Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship最新文献

{"title":"Time series analysis-based models for predicting utilization of electronic resources","authors":"Manash Esh, Saptarshi P. Ghosh","doi":"10.1080/1941126X.2023.2224664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2023.2224664","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This case study examines the use of electronic resources in academic institutions and the difficulties in forecasting their usage. By employing time series analysis-based models, the study forecasts the utilization of e-resources from 2012 to 2021. It concludes that both Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Error, Trend, Seasonal (ETS) models successfully predict electronic resource usage. The study emphasizes the significance of precise predictions for academic institution libraries to manage their collections, allocate resources efficiently, and make informed decisions regarding future acquisitions. The research seeks to forecast the trends of e-resource usage for the next decade based on the decade’s data (2012 to 2021).","PeriodicalId":39383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48682393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scite.ai Review","authors":"Amy Fry","doi":"10.1080/1941126x.2023.2225017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126x.2023.2225017","url":null,"abstract":"those reviews contributed by digital humanities practitioners who hold professional backgrounds in the library profession. Moreover, for those who would like to develop their own projects, the reviews would also serve as useful resources. Through referencing Reviews in Digital Humanities, library professionals may be able to eliminate some pitfalls pinpointed in those reviews when launching their own projects. Besides facilitating the library professionals’ efforts to catch up with recent progressions in the promising DH field, Reviews in Digital Humanities may also contribute to the development of Open Educational Resources (OER) in the library space. As one of the most influential movements affecting the American library profession, the OER has bloomed within different types of libraries in the past decades. Reviewing the repertoire of Reviews in Digital Humanities, I recognize the prominent influence of OER on those projects under review. For librarians who would like to initiate their first OER projects, some well-acclaimed projects, along with their reviews, would provide the best practice for their reference. In addition to benefiting those library professionals without adequate knowledge of both DH and OER, Reviews in Digital Humanities could also provide those library workers skilled in digital humanities with open space to exhibit their projects and receive feedback from peers and other DH practitioners across the world. At the top of the website, there is a link to submitting projects for review. After receiving the submissions, website editors would assign them to reviewers with relevant skills and experiences. For digital humanities practitioners working in the library, the publication of reviews on their projects will promote this influence. In addition to the benefits Reviews in Digital Humanities provides to library professionals with different levels of proficiency in the digital humanities, the online journal’s editorial team thinks highly of the advance of diversity in this field. Reviewing its multiple issues, I notice that the majority of DH projects located therein were produced in English. The predominance of English as the working language restrains the advancement of diversity in the DH field. Notably, the journal arranged a new team of “topic editors,” consisting of DH practitioners of different national and cultural backgrounds. It is not surprising that an increasing number of projects in nonEnglish languages and completed by DH practitioners in non-English-speaking countries will appear in Reviews in Digital Humanities. Overall, the online journal and platform provide a pathway for library workers to the DH fields.","PeriodicalId":39383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41402111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of Article Galaxy Scholar","authors":"Ambra Gagliardi, Mark England","doi":"10.1080/1941126X.2023.2225018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2023.2225018","url":null,"abstract":"really necessary? I believe that scite offers some compelling features that can make it competitive and attractive for both libraries and end users. The browser extension, Zotero plugin, and API make it easier than some tools to integrate into the research environment. It is highly customizable for individual users (some functionality requires a personal account, even with an institutional subscription), and accessible end-user pricing puts the tool in the reach of users for whom Web of Science or Scopus is not a viable option. It is intuitive and easy to use, where Web of Science is often complex and fussy. And its open (unpaywalled) interface makes it a prime candidate to be widely integrated into the online research landscape in way that other tools might never be. I also find scite promising in terms of being able to deliver on its chief claim: that it can save researchers time by helping them summarize the literature and quickly identify publications both valuable and discredited for their research. It is possible that Clarivate sees this as well, because, in the spring of 2022, Web of Science added a feature similar to scite’s “smart citations” to its interface (though it is not yet available for every item). Called “Citing Items Breakdown,” it classifies citations as background, basis, support, differ, and discuss and will show snippets from the paper that include the text of the citation. Some might worry that a tool like scite could oversimplify the research process, exacerbate blind spots and encourage students to use shortcuts to doing their own research. While all of this may be true, there are any number of other tools or practices that can contribute to these outcomes already. Textbooks summarize previously conducted research and present it in a form most likely to be digestible to a particular audience. Discovery layers collapse indexing and deliver broader search results with less precision. Faculty at my institution ranked Google Scholar, the ultimate research shortcut, as the most-popular place to start their research in a recent survey here. In discussing their citation classification model, scite’s creators emphasize that “scite supplements machine learning with human interventions.” This is a metaphor for what is necessary for conducting quality research in order to produce new knowledge, no matter what tool is being used. I think scite offers attractive features for students and researchers and can augment the discovery experience for academic libraries. I have already heard of one instance where a user asked for it by name at our reference desk; I would not be surprised to hear of this happening more in the future.","PeriodicalId":39383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43175720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resource Discovery for the Twenty-First Century: Case Studies and Perspectives on the Role of IT in User Engagement and Empowerment.","authors":"B. Eden","doi":"10.1080/1941126x.2023.2225023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126x.2023.2225023","url":null,"abstract":"and moves, and collection maintenance, like weeding. What makes Project Management in Technical Services standout from other similar works, is the balance of theoretical information and practical application. While each chapter is a case study, the authors go beyond “this is what we did” to explain their projects within the context of project management theory and describe the thought behind the choices made throughout each process. While obviously useful to technical services professionals tasked with completing similar projects, the project management skills highlighted in the work may be applied library-wide to any project.","PeriodicalId":39383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49112696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COUNTER in context: a case study on journal package usage","authors":"Heather Getsay, Aiping Chen-Gaffey","doi":"10.1080/1941126X.2023.2224670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2023.2224670","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study assesses electronic journal usage for subscription packages and discusses the challenges for librarians to interpret COUNTER data accurately. By correlating usage and holding data from two different types of vendor, COUNTER 5 Title Master Report and Electronic Holdings Report, the authors were able to review journal usage in a larger context and gain insights into how usage was affected by other factors, such as journal access models and vendor platform design. While the findings showed a high percentage of overall usage for subscription journals, one surprising result was the usage of non-subscribed journal titles in all COUNTER metrics.","PeriodicalId":39383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44524043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Divides inside Public Libraries: Statistical Evidence from Iowa","authors":"S. Wan, Yi-Tang Lin","doi":"10.1080/1941126x.2023.2225012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126x.2023.2225012","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the widespread belief that we are living in the age of the Internet, the digitized world is divided and complex. Owing to the shortage of infrastructure, the population and places of socioeconomic disadvantage are deprived of access to high-speed internet services. This inequality deteriorated during the Covid-19 pandemic. When many countries employed shortor long-term lock-down policies, their compatriots had to stay indoors and communicate with the outside world through the internet. For public libraries in the United States, the collection of electronic resources became unprecedentedly significant for its public services, especially during shorter-orlonger lock-down periods in different states across America in 2020 and 2021. Contrary to their physical counterparts, electronic resources are easily accessed remotely. The internet became an important source for patrons when they were required to stay at home while requesting reliable health information during the pandemic. While patrons could retrieve relevant information through Google and social media, the role public libraries played as the steward of trustworthy and true information was not substitutable. However, as shown in an earlier study, public libraries in Iowa could not provide reliable health information to rural, urban, or metropolitan residents equally (Wan, 2020; Wan, 2021). Situated in the proliferation of academic literature regarding the relations between the digital divide and public libraries in the United States, this argument for the existence of unequal access to reliable information inside public libraries is unusual. During the pandemic, an increasing number of studies demonstrated that public libraries across nations could resolve the catastrophic influence of the digital divide. Morgan Adle et al. highlights public libraries’ achievements in “helping to bridge the digital divide through efforts such as offering Wi-Fi in library parking lots and via bookmobiles that travel throughout the community” (Adle et al., 2023). Brian Real’s case study of public libraries in Connecticut demonstrates how they “pivoted to increase the types of digital inclusion assistance they offered patrons through telephone and online formats” (Real, 2021). However, all these scholars are prone to treating “public libraries” as monolithic social institutions while overlooking the diversity of local communities libraries serve. It is still a puzzle whether libraries in small and large communities could provide equal electronic resources. The inequality of electronic resources in public libraries became complicated during this age of misinformation. While it becomes easier to access internet services, it is still difficult to access sufficient reliable information in some public libraries. Our earlier findings disclose the digital divide in the distribution of public libraries’ electronic resources in different types/sizes of communities in Iowa, which demonstrates the significant differe","PeriodicalId":39383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48755352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making A Collection Count: A Holistic Approach to Library Collection Management.","authors":"Stephanie Sussmeier","doi":"10.1080/1941126x.2023.2225019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126x.2023.2225019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60216701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Database, What Database?","authors":"Douglas Wayman","doi":"10.1080/1941126x.2023.2225013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126x.2023.2225013","url":null,"abstract":"Adle, M., Behre, J., Real, B., & Jean, B. S. (2023). Moving toward health justice in the COVID-19 ERA: A sampling of US public libraries’ efforts to inform the public, improve information literacy, enable health behaviors, and optimize health outcomes. The Library Quarterly, 93(1), 26–47. https://doi.org/10.1086/722553 Public Libraries Survey. Institute of Museum and Library Services. https://www.imls.gov/research-evaluation/datacollection/public-libraries-survey. Real, B. (2021). Bridging digital divides during COVID-19: Findings from the 2020-2021 Connecticut State Library Digital Inclusion Survey. Public Library Quarterly, 40(4), 283–309. https://doi.org/10.1080/01616846.2021. 1938918 Wan, S. (2020). The digital divide in public libraries’ acquisition of Electronic Resources in Iowa. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 32(2), 141–145. https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2020.1739854 Wan, S. (2021). Do Iowa’s public libraries provide reliable online health information? Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 33(1), 60–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2021.1871203","PeriodicalId":39383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42866578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Streamlining streaming videos: moving towards an efficient streaming video workflow in Alma/Primo","authors":"Abigail Streeter, Kimberly Kennedy, J. Saragossi","doi":"10.1080/1941126x.2023.2224663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126x.2023.2224663","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This case study intends to demonstrate the lessons learned as an academic library went through several changes to accommodate an increase in streaming video requests on their campus. A historical outline of the changing landscape of streaming video procedures and platforms will be provided for context. The iterative changes in vendor relations, internal workflows, and resources allocated to adapt to the changing nature of streaming videos as well as lessons learned during implementation will be presented.","PeriodicalId":39383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43063499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Working Remotely, a Practical Guide for Librarians.","authors":"H. C. Chang","doi":"10.1080/1941126x.2023.2197807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126x.2023.2197807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45676052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}