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Data competency for academic librarians: Evaluating present trends and future prospects 学术图书馆员的数据能力：评估当前趋势和未来前景

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102897

Jiebei Luo , Rong Tang

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Integrating large language models and generative artificial intelligence tools into information literacy instruction 将大型语言模型和生成式人工智能工具纳入信息扫盲教学

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102899

Alexander J. Carroll , Joshua Borycz

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The Chinese Early Warning Journal List: Strengths, weaknesses and solutions in the light of China's global scientific rise 中国预警期刊目录：从中国的全球科学崛起看优势、劣势和解决方案

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102898

Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva , Serhii Nazarovets , Timothy Daly , Graham Kendall

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From insight to innovation: Harnessing artificial intelligence for dynamic literature reviews 从洞察到创新：利用人工智能进行动态文献审查

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102901

Stephen Buetow , Joshua Lovatt

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Job advertisements for data visualization in academic libraries: A content analysis of job postings 学术图书馆的数据可视化招聘广告：招聘广告内容分析

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102896

Guan Wang, A. Noorhidawati, Yanti Idaya Aspura

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The usefulness of personal publication lists in research evaluation 个人出版物清单在研究评估中的作用

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102881

Gerhard Reichmann , Christian Schlögl , Sandra Boric , Jakob Nimmerfall

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Librarian faculty status: Exploring inequality regimes in a comparative case study 图书管理员的教师身份：在比较案例研究中探索不平等制度

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102887

James Wiser

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Relationships between expert ratings of business/economics journals and key citation metrics: The impact of size-independence, citing-journal weighting, and subject-area normalization 专家对商业/经济学期刊的评级与主要引用指标之间的关系：规模无关性、引文期刊加权和学科领域归一化的影响

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102882

William H. Walters

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Facilitating inclusive and equitable curricular changes: A case study of embedded librarianship in a faculty learning community 促进包容性和公平的课程改革：教师学习社区中的嵌入式图书馆学案例研究

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102888

Emily Z. Mann , Ashley N. Reese , Michelle Madden , Timothy Henkel

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B-Wheel – Building AI competences in academic libraries B-Wheel - 培养学术图书馆的人工智能能力

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102886

Heli Kautonen PhD , Andrea Alessandro Gasparini PhD

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