... of various Indian states towards the top research publications as reported in the study. The study reveals 13 out of 28 Indian states have been figured in Table IV and the associated Figure 3 . Serials Chemistry Research Information retrieval India Chemical sciences epitomize its...

... provoked our attention: Academic libraries Case studies Assessment Career development Serials A paper's acceptance into a high‐ranking journal effectively valuates it as a commodity, regardless of the actual quality of the research. The following section suggests, however...

... is not relevant to their needs[1]. Library users Graduates Academic libraries Information science Kuwait Serials Information professionals have always tried to identify the factors that are relevant in encouraging a person to search for information. Today, a particular focus of inquiry has been...

... and how many times a journal has cited itself among other data. Interpersonal communications Nigeria Serials Research A controversial issue in the scholarly communication process is journal evaluation, since to a large extent it implies the evaluation of scholars who contribute articles...

... The primary aim of the project discussed in this paper is to identify the serials that may be considered the core journals reporting research on young people's information behaviour, with a view to helping the information professional stay up‐to‐date with important work in this field. While the study...

... Utulu can be contacted at: utulus@run.edu.ng © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Serials Nigeria Information services Academic staff Eighty four (46. 7 percent) of the respondents were from UI, while 93 (51.7 percent) were from Unilag. 3 (1.7 percent) did not indicate...

..., it's not worth buying. David   Solomon . Developing Open Access Journals: A Practical Guide . Oxford : Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd   2008 . 192 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 1 84334 339 8   £39.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Open systems Serials ...

... to analyze different characteristics of their scientific activity, associated with both their production and consumption of information (Sanz and Martín, 1997 , 1998 ; González and Moya, 1997). Bibliographies Information science Serials Venezuela The analysis of the bibliographic references...

... While, the programme was offered to library staff at all grades, for consistency I use the term librarian throughout this paper. Helen Fallon can be contacted at: helen.b.fallon@nuim.ie © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Librarians Authorship Serials Skills training Ireland...

...: enabling interaction and quality: beyond the Hanseatic League ”, Ariadne , Vol. 48 , available at: www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/cris‐2006‐rpt/ > (accessed 7 June 2008). Research Communication Digital libraries Serials Recent interest in open access research repositories in UK...

... in determining the periodical use by students as well as assisting serials librarian in planning. The main objective of this study is to discuss the needs and the information utilization patterns of periodical literature amongst the pre‐final and final year undergraduate students in Nigerian universities...

... important resource. If only more journals were the subject of such useful and impressive research. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Indexing Serials Publishing history English literature The long and illustrious history of the Brontë Society is reflected in the pages...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Librarianship Serials Libraries History It was a brave new world for UK libraries. County library services were being established and spreading across the whole country. They were staffed by new recruits, as often as not volunteers...

.... Digital libraries Serials Communication Such media make literature freely accessible and more visible to the community and therefore generate greater impact and subsequent use of research findings by others. Indeed Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (ibid) have found that “across most...

..., coverage, costs, and future development path, there is also a surprising – in a UK context – concentration on various aspects of serials cataloguing. To indicate the kind of use to which this volume is likely to be put – responding to a particular need – I was unexpectedly interested in a number of papers...

...Andrew Gosling The past decade has seen considerable achievements by Australian libraries in improving access to Asian serials. This has been largely the result of cooperative effort. However, there remain significant problems and issues for the future. Challenges identified by librarians and users...

...Steve Morgan Its structure is rather unusual. We have a preconference programme (five papers), three plenary sessions, five project sessions, six issues sessions (11 papers) and 22 workshop reports. The preconference programme papers cover topics such as serials acquisitions practice, use...

...Jean Hirons; Regina Reynolds The challenges to traditional cataloguing posed by electronic publishing, in particular, serials publishing, are described. The revision of the Anglo‐American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. rev. to accommodate these changes and to better reflect seriality is discussed...

.... Library Association Serials Readers of our eminent contemporary the Library Association Record may have observed that in January 1998 it began its 100th volume. The Record is not actually 100 years old until December of this year, since its first issue came out in January 1899...