The Social Sciences: A Cross‐Disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources (3rd ed.)20034Edited by Nancy L. Herron. The Social Sciences: A Cross‐Disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources (3rd ed.). Greenwood Village, CO: Libraries Unlimited 2002. 494 pp. $60.00 (softback), ISBN: 1563088827 Library and Information Science Text Series

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
John N. Jax
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Science Text ◽  
The Social

Institutional repositories: a bibliometric study of the social sciences citation index (SSCI)

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 504-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Ping Liao ◽  
Tsu-Jui Ma
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Bibliometric Study ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Prolific Authors ◽  
Social Sciences Citation Index

Purpose This paper aims to provide a bibliometric study of journal articles related to institutional repositories in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) between January 1993 and August 2017. This study will provide researchers with a foundation for further research. Design/methodology/approach In this study, articles published were analyzed; titles were searched using the term “institutional repositories.” The data were evaluated in response to four research questions on the following topics: publication trends, prolific authors, core journals and times cited. Findings The results indicate that 124 articles on institutional repositories were authored by 223 individuals. These articles were cited 722 times in 37 journals, and the h-index provided by the Web of Science was 14. Research limitations/implications This study only investigated articles titled with institutional repositories in the SSCI. Other items were not included. Practical implications This study shows that the implementation of institutional repositories has been limited to library and information science. If they can be used broadly in different disciplines, a better outcome can be expected. Social implications Based on the findings, the growth of institutional repositories as an academic subject is likely to continue. If such discussions can be conducted in other disciplines, institutional repositories may be able to provide a more promising outcome to academia. Originality/value This paper is valuable for researchers who wish to examine the trends of institutional repositories in the SSCI and seek possible areas for further research.

scholarly journals Citation Analysis Shows Promise as an Effective Tool for Monograph Collection Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Scott Marsalis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Local Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Us

A Review of: Enger, K. B. (2009). Using citation analysis to develop core book collections in academic libraries. Library & Information Science Research, 31(2), 107-112. Objective – To test whether acquiring books written by authors of highly cited journal articles is an effective method for building a collection in the social sciences. Design – Comparison Study. Setting – Academic library at a public university in the US. Subjects – A total of 1,359 book titles, selected by traditional means (n=1,267) or based on citation analysis (n=92). Methods – The researchers identified highly-ranked authors, defined as the most frequently cited authors publishing in journals with an impact factor greater than one, with no more than six journals in any category, using 1999 ISI data. They included authors in the categories Business, Anthropology, Criminology & Penology, Education & Education Research, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology, and General Social Sciences. The Books in Print bibliographic tool was searched to identify monographs published by these authors, and any titles not already owned were purchased. All books in the study were available to patrons by Fall 2005. The researchers collected circulation data in Spring 2007, and used it to compare titles acquired by this method with titles selected by traditional means. Main Results – Overall, books selected by traditional methods circulated more than those selected by citation analysis, with differences significant at the .001 level. However, at the subject category level, there was no significant difference at the .05 level. Most books selected by the test method circulated one to two times. Conclusion – Citation analysis can be an effective method for building a relevant book collection, and may be especially effective for identifying works relevant to a discipline beyond local context.

Valuing studies in higher education: Symbolic means and strategies of students negotiating their position in the library and information science field

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 306-314
Author(s):  
Valentini Moniarou-Papaconstantinou
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Hierarchical Classification ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Knowledge Content

The library and information science field attempts to legitimize its position in higher education, in a ‘culture of uncertainty’, where boundaries are fluid. The position of LIS in the hierarchical classification of academic subjects is influenced by the changes in both the field of higher education and in the information environment, creating expectations for the emergence of new fields of study, research and professional practices. The purpose of this paper is to examine how LIS students position themselves in their field of study and the resources they use in processes of meaning-making. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with students from the three LIS departments operating in Greece at the undergraduate level. The results showed that the academic knowledge content of the object, the assignment of scientific characteristics to it, the signifier of the book, the form of professional practice and, above all, technology are the most prominent resources among those that most young people utilized in their effort to negotiate the symbolic class (i.e. the dominant cultural categories which give meaning to the social world).

scholarly journals Augmented intelligence technology. The ethical and practical problems of its implementation in libraries

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Wójcik
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

PurposeThe subject of the article is the concept of augmented intelligence, which constitutes a further stage in the development of research on artificial intelligence. This is a new phenomenon that has rarely been considered in the subject literature so far, which may be interesting for the fields of social sciences and humanities. The aim is to describe the features of this technology and determine the practical and ethical problems associated with its implementation in libraries.Design/methodology/approachThe method of literature review was used. Systematic searches according to specific questions were carried out using the Scopus and Web of Science scientific databases, as well as Google Scholar and the LISTA abstract database.FindingsThe results established that the issue of augmented intelligence has barely been discussed in the field of librarianship. Although this technology may be interesting as a new area of librarian research and as a new framework for designing innovative services, deep ethical consideration is necessary before this technology is introduced in libraries.Research limitations/implicationsThe article deals with some of the newest technologies available, and this topic is generally very rarely discussed in scientific publications in either the social sciences or humanities. Therefore, due to the limited availability of materials, the findings presented in the article are primarily of a conceptual nature. The aim is to present this topic from the perspective of librarianship and to create a starting point for further discussion on the ethical aspects of introducing new technologies in libraries.Practical implicationsThe results can be widely used in practice as a framework for the implementation of augmented intelligence in libraries.Social implicationsThe article can help to facilitate the debate on the role of implementing new technologies in libraries.Originality/valueThe problem of augmented intelligence is very rarely addressed in the subject literature in the field of library and information science.

scholarly journals Still Minding the Gap? Reflecting on Transitions between Concepts of Information in Varied Domains

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bawden ◽  
Lyn Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Boundary Spanning ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Unified Theories ◽  
Complementary Nature ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Multiple Meanings

This conceptual paper, a contribution to the tenth anniversary Special Issue of Information, gives a cross-disciplinary review of general and unified theories of information. A selective literature review is used to update a 2013 article on bridging the gaps between conceptions of information in different domains, including material from the physical and biological sciences, from the humanities and social sciences including library and information science, and from philosophy. A variety of approaches and theories are reviewed, including those of Brenner, Brier, Burgin and Wu, Capurro, Cárdenas-García and Ireland, Hidalgo, Hofkirchner, Kolchinsky and Wolpert, Floridi, Mingers and Standing, Popper, and Stonier. The gaps between disciplinary views of information remain, although there has been progress, and increasing interest, in bridging them. The solution is likely to be either a general theory of sufficient flexibility to cope with multiple meanings of information, or multiple and distinct theories for different domains, but with a complementary nature, and ideally boundary spanning concepts.

Czym jest czytanie? Intuicje i definicje

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (50) ◽  
pp. 16-35
Author(s):  
Magdalena Paul ◽  
Małgorzata Kisilowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Field Analysis ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Reading Behaviors ◽  
Reading Culture

The following text presents the detailed research carried out with the semantic field analysis method to find out how the respondents understand the word “reading” and related terms. The main objective of the research project “Changes in Reading Culture in Poland in the Context of Dissemination of E-texts and Devices Allowing to Use Them’’ was not to perform a quantitative analysis of the reading behaviors of the Poles, but to explore the qualitative impact of the widespread presence and availability of texts (varying in terms of size, nature or length) based on the choices and preferences of the respondents. The results were discussed in the context of the definitions of reading in the area of library and Information Science and Social Sciences.

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