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Research paper thumbnail of Gauging the Quality and Trustworthiness in the Citation Practices of Malaysian Academic Researhers

Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries, 2016

The origin of this research is illuminated by CIBER's exploratory research on Trust in Schola... more The origin of this research is illuminated by CIBER's exploratory research on Trust in Scholarly Communications conducted in 2012-2013. This study's interest lies with Malaysian academic researchers both as producers and consumers and how they deal with the quality and trust consequences of the digital transition, especially, but not exclusively, the impact of social media and open access publishing on their scholarly communications. This paper reports on a survey on citation behaviour, part of a wider study of gauging quality and trustworthiness in scholarly communication in the emerging digital environment. It focuses on investigating what Malaysian researchers trust or find reliable to cite in their publications. In order to make the study results comparable, we adapted the same questionnaire that CIBER has developed and used in previous surveys. We used surveymonkey.com. a web-based questionnaire which has been widely used for surveys. The questionnaire went online on th...

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Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: Thematic series on scholarly communications in the digital age

FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Costing medical libraries: the feasibility of functional cost analysis*

Health Libraries Review, 1993

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Research paper thumbnail of Not an age thing! “Greynetters” in the newsroom defy the stereotype

New Library World, 1998

The meteoric rise of the Internet has left information science researchers struggling to keep pac... more The meteoric rise of the Internet has left information science researchers struggling to keep pace, so that much discussion about the phenomenon has been based on assumption, anecdote and sheer hype. This paper reports on a major British Library funded project seeking hard evidence as to what is really happening in the information landscape, with the media being a case study. Discussed here are results pertaining to user characteristics, with particular reference to age. Contrary to received wisdom, it is the old, more experienced journalist pioneering Internet use, rather than the stereotypical young computer whiz kids. Several factors are emerging, including information needs characteristics, job security, Internet access, experience with online systems and, for senior managers, economic implications. The wider context is considered, such as early adoption generally of technological innovations, and evidence suggests that the newsroom environment may be characteristic of a general...

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Research paper thumbnail of CD-ROMs in public libraries: a survey

Aslib Proceedings, 1995

This article summarizes the main findings of a survey, undertaken in early 1994, of open access C... more This article summarizes the main findings of a survey, undertaken in early 1994, of open access CD‐ROM in British public libraries. The survey examined how well Public Library Authorities (PLAs) were implementing CD‐ROM technology for public use and how well the general public were fairing with CD‐ROMs. The survey was both quantitative and qualitative in nature: current national statistics for CD‐ROM distribution in PLAs were sought, case studies of 13 PLAs who provided open access CD‐ROM were conducted and finally an end‐user survey of 4 of these libraries was undertaken. The principal findings of the survey are as follows. In 1992 only 5% of PLAs provided CD‐ROMs for public use, but by 1994 this figure had risen to 12%. London and English County PLAs had the highest proportion of CD‐ROMs for public use. PLAs with CD‐ROM services were not necessarily the big spending authorities. National newspapers accounted for the majority of CD‐ROMs in use. The main management concerns were lac...

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Research paper thumbnail of Councillors and information: a study of information needs and information provision

Aslib Proceedings, 1996

Little attention has been given to the needs of local authority councillors for well over a decad... more Little attention has been given to the needs of local authority councillors for well over a decade; a period in which the changes imposed by national government have made it necessary for councillors to keep up to date in all areas of local government provision. This paper attempts to provide a brief assessment of the information seeking behaviour of local authority councillors and the importance of information to them. By interviewing a cross section of local councillors and sending a questionnaire to selected information providers the study has identified the sources of information available for and most used by councillors. The research has shown what information the councillors consider important and their methods when seeking information. The survey of questionnaire responses has exposed the similarities and differences in the ways that information is provided for and taken up by councillors. Pointers for further research are suggested.

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Research paper thumbnail of A system that prioritises publications means early career researchers’ scholarly attitudes and behaviours remain conservative

Early career researchers (ECRs) are the largest community of researchers but despite this we know... more Early career researchers (ECRs) are the largest community of researchers but despite this we know little about their scholarly attitudes and behaviours. Reporting the first-year findings of a longitudinal study of an international panel of ECRs, Dave Nicholas reveals that many remain conservative in their scholarly attitudes and practices. ECRs are concerned by “risky” open peer review, regard archiving their work in repositories as a non-priority, and display little interest in open science or altmetrics. Many ECRs see opportunities for change, but do not feel able to grasp them as they are shackled to a reputational system that promotes publication record and citation scores above all else.

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Research paper thumbnail of Health and Medical Researcher Publishing Patterns and How Libraries Support Them

The Serials Librarian

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Research paper thumbnail of Assessing Journal Quality and Legitimacy: An Investigation into the Experience and Views of Researchers and Intermediaries -with special reference to the Health Sector and Predatory Publishing

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Research paper thumbnail of Early Career Researchers: a very big and strategic Market and one that is changing

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Research paper thumbnail of Beyond the Download: Issues in Developing a Secondary Usage Calculator

Since 2002, Project COUNTER has led the way in developing and maintaining systems of measurement ... more Since 2002, Project COUNTER has led the way in developing and maintaining systems of measurement for download counts. While these counts have often been used as a proxy measure in determining journal and article value for libraries and publishers, they miss an important post-download secondary usage factor – namely, that of sharing. Likewise, altmetrics, while accounting for the impact of social media, misses some aspects of sharing as distribution often occurs via email. This creates difficulty in quantifying an exact measure of use. One aim of the Beyond Downloads project was to develop a calculator for measuring total digital usage – including sharing. Through an examination of a range of sharing systems, we identified the most commonly used platforms for sharing scholarly articles, while an international survey provided data on access, download, saving, and sharing behavior. Survey results indicated that a range of sharing patterns can be estimated, but post-download usage o...

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Research paper thumbnail of The role of trust and authority in the citation behaviour of researchers

Inf. Res., 2015

Introduction. This paper reports on an interview-based citation behaviour study, part of a wider ... more Introduction. This paper reports on an interview-based citation behaviour study, part of a wider study of trust in information resources, investigating why researchers chose to cite particular references in one of their publications. Their motivations are explored, with an emphasis on whether they regarded the reference as an authoritative and trustworthy source, and, if so, to what extent and why. Method. Semi-structured critical incident interviews were carried out with eighty-seven researchers from the UK and the USA. Analysis. The answers were analysed using qualitative techniques and then grouped under descriptive headings of the types of reasons for citation provided. These were then used to create a table of these types of reason and the frequency of their use. Results. The motivations for citing were found to be complex and multi-faceted but, in nearly all cases, researchers do regard the authority and trustworthiness of the cited source as an important factor in choosing to...

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Research paper thumbnail of No scholar is an island: The impact of sharing in the work life of scholars

Learned Publishing, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of New ways of building, showcasing, and measuring scholarly reputation

Learned Publishing, 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of Emerging Reputation and Funding Mechanisms in the Context of Open Science 2.0

This report covers the outcomes of two studies that explored the emerging drivers for Open Scienc... more This report covers the outcomes of two studies that explored the emerging drivers for Open Science 2.0. In general, Open Science 2.0 thrives from themes such as open access to scientific outputs, open data, citizen science and open peer evaluation systems. Our studies focused on less explored themes, namely on alternative funding mechanisms for scientific research and on emerging reputation systems for scholars. The results from these two studies could be described as two sides of the same coin: scholars in the emerging field of "open science 2.0" build reputation in diverse ways that they use to acquire funding both from established sources but also from emerging alternative funding sources. In general however, it appears that new reputation and funding mechanism for scientific research are still in their infancy. It remains to be seen if they will be able to bring about a change in how science and research systems function in the future.

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Research paper thumbnail of Peer review: still king in the digital age

Learned Publishing, 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of Scholarly communication and matters of trust and authority: A comparative analysis of Malaysian and Chinese researchers

The study is a follow up of CIBER's exploratory research on Trust and Authority in Scholarly Comm... more The study is a follow up of CIBER's exploratory research on Trust and Authority in Scholarly Communications conducted in 2012-2013, investigating Malaysia, a country currently on the 'periphery' of the scholarly endeavor and comparing with China, now stands 2 nd globally to the USA in terms of scientific output. Over 500 Malaysian researchers were surveyed about the opinions on trustworthiness when it came to their scholarly use/reading, citing and publishing. A high proportion of respondents were affiliated to research-intensive universities, with the early career researchers and physical sciences being very well-represented. The attitudes and behaviours of Malaysian researchers were compared with an earlier study of more than 660 Chinese, the methods and questions of which were replicated from the CIBER study. Results indicate that the measures of establishing trust and authority in scholarly communication do not seem to have differed profoundly in Malaysia and China.

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Research paper thumbnail of ResearchGate was a disruptor...now it’s becoming a mainstay

For scholarly publishers, the social networking platform ResearchGate is a double-edged sword. On... more For scholarly publishers, the social networking platform ResearchGate is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, when researchers post papers on the site journals’ brands are promoted and articles are used more widely. On the other hand, there is a potential loss in revenue and subscriptions if that sharing goes on outside publishers’ walls. As if that were not bad enough, ResearchGate is also muscling in on the publishing business and has even flirted with conducting peer review.

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Research paper thumbnail of No scholar is an island: The impact of sharing in the work life of scholars

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Research paper thumbnail of Where and how early career researchers find scholarly information

This article presents findings from the first year of the Harbingers research project started in ... more This article presents findings from the first year of the Harbingers research project started in 2015. The project is a 3-year longitudinal study of early career researchers (ECRs) to ascertain their current and changing habits with regard to information searching, use, sharing, and publication. The study recruited 116 researchers from seven countries (UK, USA, China, France, Malaysia, Poland, and Spain) and performed in-depth interviews by telephone, Skype, or face-to-face to discover behaviours and opinions. This paper reports on findings regarding discovery and access to scholarly information. Findings confirm the universal popularity of Google/Google Scholar. Library platforms and web-scale discovery services are largely unmentioned and unnoticed by this user community, although many ECRs pass through them unknowingly on the way to authenticated use of their other preferred sources, such as Web of Science. ECRs are conscious of the benefits of open access in delivering free access to papers. Social media are widely used as a source of discovering scholarly information. ResearchGate is popular and on the rise in all countries surveyed. Smartphones have become a regularly used platform on which to perform quick and occasional searches for scholarly information but are only rarely used for reading full text

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Research paper thumbnail of Gauging the Quality and Trustworthiness in the Citation Practices of Malaysian Academic Researhers

Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries, 2016

The origin of this research is illuminated by CIBER's exploratory research on Trust in Schola... more The origin of this research is illuminated by CIBER's exploratory research on Trust in Scholarly Communications conducted in 2012-2013. This study's interest lies with Malaysian academic researchers both as producers and consumers and how they deal with the quality and trust consequences of the digital transition, especially, but not exclusively, the impact of social media and open access publishing on their scholarly communications. This paper reports on a survey on citation behaviour, part of a wider study of gauging quality and trustworthiness in scholarly communication in the emerging digital environment. It focuses on investigating what Malaysian researchers trust or find reliable to cite in their publications. In order to make the study results comparable, we adapted the same questionnaire that CIBER has developed and used in previous surveys. We used surveymonkey.com. a web-based questionnaire which has been widely used for surveys. The questionnaire went online on th...

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Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: Thematic series on scholarly communications in the digital age

FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Costing medical libraries: the feasibility of functional cost analysis*

Health Libraries Review, 1993

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Research paper thumbnail of Not an age thing! “Greynetters” in the newsroom defy the stereotype

New Library World, 1998

The meteoric rise of the Internet has left information science researchers struggling to keep pac... more The meteoric rise of the Internet has left information science researchers struggling to keep pace, so that much discussion about the phenomenon has been based on assumption, anecdote and sheer hype. This paper reports on a major British Library funded project seeking hard evidence as to what is really happening in the information landscape, with the media being a case study. Discussed here are results pertaining to user characteristics, with particular reference to age. Contrary to received wisdom, it is the old, more experienced journalist pioneering Internet use, rather than the stereotypical young computer whiz kids. Several factors are emerging, including information needs characteristics, job security, Internet access, experience with online systems and, for senior managers, economic implications. The wider context is considered, such as early adoption generally of technological innovations, and evidence suggests that the newsroom environment may be characteristic of a general...

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Research paper thumbnail of CD-ROMs in public libraries: a survey

Aslib Proceedings, 1995

This article summarizes the main findings of a survey, undertaken in early 1994, of open access C... more This article summarizes the main findings of a survey, undertaken in early 1994, of open access CD‐ROM in British public libraries. The survey examined how well Public Library Authorities (PLAs) were implementing CD‐ROM technology for public use and how well the general public were fairing with CD‐ROMs. The survey was both quantitative and qualitative in nature: current national statistics for CD‐ROM distribution in PLAs were sought, case studies of 13 PLAs who provided open access CD‐ROM were conducted and finally an end‐user survey of 4 of these libraries was undertaken. The principal findings of the survey are as follows. In 1992 only 5% of PLAs provided CD‐ROMs for public use, but by 1994 this figure had risen to 12%. London and English County PLAs had the highest proportion of CD‐ROMs for public use. PLAs with CD‐ROM services were not necessarily the big spending authorities. National newspapers accounted for the majority of CD‐ROMs in use. The main management concerns were lac...

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Research paper thumbnail of Councillors and information: a study of information needs and information provision

Aslib Proceedings, 1996

Little attention has been given to the needs of local authority councillors for well over a decad... more Little attention has been given to the needs of local authority councillors for well over a decade; a period in which the changes imposed by national government have made it necessary for councillors to keep up to date in all areas of local government provision. This paper attempts to provide a brief assessment of the information seeking behaviour of local authority councillors and the importance of information to them. By interviewing a cross section of local councillors and sending a questionnaire to selected information providers the study has identified the sources of information available for and most used by councillors. The research has shown what information the councillors consider important and their methods when seeking information. The survey of questionnaire responses has exposed the similarities and differences in the ways that information is provided for and taken up by councillors. Pointers for further research are suggested.

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Research paper thumbnail of A system that prioritises publications means early career researchers’ scholarly attitudes and behaviours remain conservative

Early career researchers (ECRs) are the largest community of researchers but despite this we know... more Early career researchers (ECRs) are the largest community of researchers but despite this we know little about their scholarly attitudes and behaviours. Reporting the first-year findings of a longitudinal study of an international panel of ECRs, Dave Nicholas reveals that many remain conservative in their scholarly attitudes and practices. ECRs are concerned by “risky” open peer review, regard archiving their work in repositories as a non-priority, and display little interest in open science or altmetrics. Many ECRs see opportunities for change, but do not feel able to grasp them as they are shackled to a reputational system that promotes publication record and citation scores above all else.

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Research paper thumbnail of Health and Medical Researcher Publishing Patterns and How Libraries Support Them

The Serials Librarian

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Research paper thumbnail of Assessing Journal Quality and Legitimacy: An Investigation into the Experience and Views of Researchers and Intermediaries -with special reference to the Health Sector and Predatory Publishing

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Research paper thumbnail of Early Career Researchers: a very big and strategic Market and one that is changing

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Research paper thumbnail of Beyond the Download: Issues in Developing a Secondary Usage Calculator

Since 2002, Project COUNTER has led the way in developing and maintaining systems of measurement ... more Since 2002, Project COUNTER has led the way in developing and maintaining systems of measurement for download counts. While these counts have often been used as a proxy measure in determining journal and article value for libraries and publishers, they miss an important post-download secondary usage factor – namely, that of sharing. Likewise, altmetrics, while accounting for the impact of social media, misses some aspects of sharing as distribution often occurs via email. This creates difficulty in quantifying an exact measure of use. One aim of the Beyond Downloads project was to develop a calculator for measuring total digital usage – including sharing. Through an examination of a range of sharing systems, we identified the most commonly used platforms for sharing scholarly articles, while an international survey provided data on access, download, saving, and sharing behavior. Survey results indicated that a range of sharing patterns can be estimated, but post-download usage o...

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Research paper thumbnail of The role of trust and authority in the citation behaviour of researchers

Inf. Res., 2015

Introduction. This paper reports on an interview-based citation behaviour study, part of a wider ... more Introduction. This paper reports on an interview-based citation behaviour study, part of a wider study of trust in information resources, investigating why researchers chose to cite particular references in one of their publications. Their motivations are explored, with an emphasis on whether they regarded the reference as an authoritative and trustworthy source, and, if so, to what extent and why. Method. Semi-structured critical incident interviews were carried out with eighty-seven researchers from the UK and the USA. Analysis. The answers were analysed using qualitative techniques and then grouped under descriptive headings of the types of reasons for citation provided. These were then used to create a table of these types of reason and the frequency of their use. Results. The motivations for citing were found to be complex and multi-faceted but, in nearly all cases, researchers do regard the authority and trustworthiness of the cited source as an important factor in choosing to...

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Research paper thumbnail of No scholar is an island: The impact of sharing in the work life of scholars

Learned Publishing, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of New ways of building, showcasing, and measuring scholarly reputation

Learned Publishing, 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of Emerging Reputation and Funding Mechanisms in the Context of Open Science 2.0

This report covers the outcomes of two studies that explored the emerging drivers for Open Scienc... more This report covers the outcomes of two studies that explored the emerging drivers for Open Science 2.0. In general, Open Science 2.0 thrives from themes such as open access to scientific outputs, open data, citizen science and open peer evaluation systems. Our studies focused on less explored themes, namely on alternative funding mechanisms for scientific research and on emerging reputation systems for scholars. The results from these two studies could be described as two sides of the same coin: scholars in the emerging field of "open science 2.0" build reputation in diverse ways that they use to acquire funding both from established sources but also from emerging alternative funding sources. In general however, it appears that new reputation and funding mechanism for scientific research are still in their infancy. It remains to be seen if they will be able to bring about a change in how science and research systems function in the future.

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Research paper thumbnail of Peer review: still king in the digital age

Learned Publishing, 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of Scholarly communication and matters of trust and authority: A comparative analysis of Malaysian and Chinese researchers

The study is a follow up of CIBER's exploratory research on Trust and Authority in Scholarly Comm... more The study is a follow up of CIBER's exploratory research on Trust and Authority in Scholarly Communications conducted in 2012-2013, investigating Malaysia, a country currently on the 'periphery' of the scholarly endeavor and comparing with China, now stands 2 nd globally to the USA in terms of scientific output. Over 500 Malaysian researchers were surveyed about the opinions on trustworthiness when it came to their scholarly use/reading, citing and publishing. A high proportion of respondents were affiliated to research-intensive universities, with the early career researchers and physical sciences being very well-represented. The attitudes and behaviours of Malaysian researchers were compared with an earlier study of more than 660 Chinese, the methods and questions of which were replicated from the CIBER study. Results indicate that the measures of establishing trust and authority in scholarly communication do not seem to have differed profoundly in Malaysia and China.

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Research paper thumbnail of ResearchGate was a disruptor...now it’s becoming a mainstay

For scholarly publishers, the social networking platform ResearchGate is a double-edged sword. On... more For scholarly publishers, the social networking platform ResearchGate is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, when researchers post papers on the site journals’ brands are promoted and articles are used more widely. On the other hand, there is a potential loss in revenue and subscriptions if that sharing goes on outside publishers’ walls. As if that were not bad enough, ResearchGate is also muscling in on the publishing business and has even flirted with conducting peer review.

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Research paper thumbnail of No scholar is an island: The impact of sharing in the work life of scholars

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Research paper thumbnail of Where and how early career researchers find scholarly information

This article presents findings from the first year of the Harbingers research project started in ... more This article presents findings from the first year of the Harbingers research project started in 2015. The project is a 3-year longitudinal study of early career researchers (ECRs) to ascertain their current and changing habits with regard to information searching, use, sharing, and publication. The study recruited 116 researchers from seven countries (UK, USA, China, France, Malaysia, Poland, and Spain) and performed in-depth interviews by telephone, Skype, or face-to-face to discover behaviours and opinions. This paper reports on findings regarding discovery and access to scholarly information. Findings confirm the universal popularity of Google/Google Scholar. Library platforms and web-scale discovery services are largely unmentioned and unnoticed by this user community, although many ECRs pass through them unknowingly on the way to authenticated use of their other preferred sources, such as Web of Science. ECRs are conscious of the benefits of open access in delivering free access to papers. Social media are widely used as a source of discovering scholarly information. ResearchGate is popular and on the rise in all countries surveyed. Smartphones have become a regularly used platform on which to perform quick and occasional searches for scholarly information but are only rarely used for reading full text

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Research paper thumbnail of Scholarly activities and reputation in the digital age: A conceptual framework

The paper, which should be seen as a work in progress, provides a conceptual framework of the tas... more The paper, which should be seen as a work in progress, provides a conceptual framework of the tasks and activities that comprise the present-day scholarly undertaking and their potentially reputation building, maintaining and enhancing components. Guided by Boyer's (1990) categorisation of scholarly activities, the framework was derived from an analytical literature review and takes cognizance of the rise of Web 2.0, and the collaboration and sharing paradigm it has brought with it. The resulting schema lays down a blueprint for the assessment of scholarly reputation, consisting, as it does, of the range of traditional and novel, offline and online activities typically undertaken by scholars as they go about their pursuits in an increasingly open-values based digital and networked environment.

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Research paper thumbnail of marzena.swigon_zwiastuny zmian w komunikacji naukowej.pdf

doniesienie z pierwszej tury badań wśród młodych naukowców, w tym polskich; wywiady ze 116 respon... more doniesienie z pierwszej tury badań wśród młodych naukowców, w tym polskich; wywiady ze 116 respondentami z 7 krajów

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Research paper thumbnail of Postawy i zachowania młodych naukowców – doniesienie z pierwszego etapu badań międzynarodowych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem polskich respondentów

Zagadnienia Informacji Naukowej, 2017

Abstrakt Cel/Teza: W artykule omówiono wybrane wyniki międzynarodowego projektu badawczego " Ha... more Abstrakt
Cel/Teza: W artykule omówiono wybrane wyniki międzynarodowego projektu badawczego " Harbingers " , których celem jest prognoza zmian w komunikacji naukowej na podstawie analizy postaw i zachowań współczesnych młodych pracowników naukowych. Uwagę skupiono w szczególności na wynikach uzyskanych w badaniach przeprowadzonych na grupie polskich respondentów, porównując je z wynikami uzyskanymi dla całej międzynarodowej grupy badawczej.
Koncepcja/Metody badań: Projekt " Harbingers " obejmuje badania prowadzone w siedmiu krajach w latach 2016–2018 metodą pogłębionych wywiadów indywidualnych z wykorzystaniem znormali-zowanego kwestionariusza. Dodatkowo na zgromadzonych danych szczegółowych prowadzone są analizy statystyczne. W pierwszym etapie badań udział wzięło 116 młodych naukowców, w tym 10 z Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie.
Wyniki i wnioski: Większość respondentów z badanych krajów zwracała uwagę na przeciążenie obowiązkami zawodowymi, wysokie wymagania oraz niepewne warunki pracy. Widoczne było ich skupienie na finalnej części pracy naukowej, a mianowicie publikowaniu jak największej liczby artykułów w najbardziej prestiżowych czasopismach. Nie stwierdzono znaczących różnic w zachowaniach i postawach związanych z komunikacją naukową uczestniczących w badaniach polskich młodych naukowców, w stosunku do zachowań i postaw młodych badaczy z innych krajów.
Oryginalność/Wartość poznawcza: Prowadzone badania są pierwszymi na świecie długookresowymi studiami związanymi ze zmianami w systemie komunikacji naukowej wśród młodych pracowników nauki.

Attitudes and Behavior of Junior Researchers – Early Findings of an International Study with a Particular Focus on Polish Researchers
Abstract
Purpose/Thesis: The aim of this study is to identify the changes in scholarly communication based
on the analysis of attitudes and behaviors of junior researchers.
Approach/Methods: The study is being conducted in seven countries over a three-year period from
2016 to 2018 using a deep interview method. During the first year of the study, 116 early-career
researchers have participated, including 10 participants from the University of Warmia and Mazury
in Olsztyn, Poland.
Results and conclusions: The majority of respondents from all countries have drawn attention to
the fact that they were overwhelmed with their professional duties and unstable work environment.
Their focus on publishing papers in highly-ranked journals was noticeable.
Originality/Value: It was first longitudinal and international study on changes in the scholarly
communication among junior researchers.

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