I decided to use the tool Library Thing to determine a list of 10 books that I would like to read. I had been meaning to take a closer look at this site all semester, and now seemed to be the perfect time to do it.
My first challenge was to successfully navigate the site. In turn, I explored all of my profile areas (empty, as I had not yet done anything with it), and then moved on to the public spaces. I started with the “talk” section, but this quickly became too overwhelming. The discussion topics used acronyms that I was not familiar with and had responses to challenges I had not heard. Many discussion topics had hundreds of replies. Even when I saw a topic that sounded interesting (such as Fantasy Book Club suggestions), the thought of wading through the sheer number of replies discouraged me.
The next place that I explored, “groups”, was far more helpful. At the top of the page was a tag cloud, showing some of the most popular tags. These were self explanatory, such as “religion” and “science fiction”. This gave me a much clearer way to navigate the wealth of information on this site. It also featured the trending discussions of this week and groups devoted to specific interests (science fiction fans, writer readers). It seemed that perhaps the best way to compile a list of books that I would be interested in reading was to explore some of the groups that seemed aligned with my interests.
On a whim, I saw that there was a group entitled “Tea!” with the description of “tea drinkers everywhere, unite!”. A little bemused, I clicked on this group. Being a tea drinker myself, I was interested to see what kind of book recommendations I could get from a group devoted to the drinking of tea on Library Thing. I clicked on the discussion topic “which tea book are you currently reading?” and was astounded to find the many, many different kinds of books on and including the subject of tea.
As I began to comb through the archives of this message topic, I began to think about the kind of books regarding tea that I might like to read. I was not terribly interested in recipe books. While I'm certain that at some point I might want to casually pick up a recipe book to try some new teas, I do not have a burning thirst (pardon the pun) to read such a book cover to cover. It seemed to me that a book about the history of this beverage, or perhaps a novel in which tea plays a significant role, would be of interest to me.
My criteria for selection was to gather a list of 20 or so books whose titles interested me, to click on those hyper-linked titles in the discussion board to read the reviews page, and then to pare it down to a list of 10 books that I am very interesting in reading. I realize that had I uploaded books to my “library”, this process would have been very different, as the site would let me know if it thought if I would like the book or not. Still, despite doing it the “hard” way, I think that I found a very worthwhile reading list. My final selections are as follows:
A Social History of Tea by Jane Pettigrew
Steeped in the World of Tea by Sharon Bard
The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
Cup of Tea by Geraldene Holt
Strong Tea by John B. Keene
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World by Laura C. Martin
Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs
Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, Empire by Roy Moxham
A History of the World in 6 glasses by Tom Standage
Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind by Henry Hobhouse
7 of these books are histories (specifically, social histories) and three are novels. These books seemed to be to me the most interested, most comprehensive, and highest reviewed of the “tea” books. I also spent some time exploring the entire “tea” tag, and my results were about the same. The recommendations of others on the message board seemed to match my own evaluations of the top books from the entire “tea” list.
In the end, I emerged from this with a list of 10 interesting books on a topic that I never would have thought to explore on my own. I also emerged with a time sucking website addiction to rival facebook, as one tag leads to another and a librarian-in-training can all too easily be lost in all the books.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Assignment #9
Copyright and Access
Arms, CR (1999) Getting the picture: observations from the library of congress on providing online access to pictorial images. Library Trends, 18(2), 879-400. 20 citations.
Atherton, Paulene (1978) Books are for use: Final report of the subject access project to the council on library resources. 1-190. 34 citations.
Band, J. (2006) The Google print library project: a copyright analysis. Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, 10(3). 11 citations.
Bennett, S. (1994) The copyright challenge: strengthening the public interest in the digital age. Library Journal, 119(19), 34-37. 9 citations.
Chen, HL and Rasmussen, EM (1999) Intellectual access to images. Library Trends, 48(2), 291-302. 32 citations.
Coleman, A (2997) Self-archiving and the copyright transfer agreements of ISI-ranked library and information science journals. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(2), 286-296. 9 citations.
Coleman, A and Roback, J (2005) Open Access Federation for Library and Information Science. D-Lib Magazine, 11(12). 18 citations.
Covey, Denise (2005) Acquiring copyright permission to digitize and and provide open access to books. Digital Library Federation Council on Library and Information Resources. 1-72. 16 citations.
Gadd, E (1997) Copyright clearance for the digital library: A practical guide for gaining electronic permissions for journal articles. Serials, 10(1), 27-31. 7 citations.
Gasaway, Laura (2002) The new access right and its impact on libraries and library users. Journal of Intellectual Property, 10, 269. 23 citations.
Ginsburg, JC (1993) Copyright without walls? Speculations on literary property in the library of the future. Representations, 42, 53-73. 18 citations.
Jensen, MB (1993) Is the library without walls on a collision course with the 1976 copyright act. Law Library Journal, 85, 619. 17 citations.
Jun-ping, Q and Shao-qiang, Z (2006) Copyright protection technology of digital library and the legal limits of its circumvention. Information Science. 9 citations.
Ke, Q (2008) The copyright policy and construction of open access. Library Work and Study. 5 citations.
Koehler, AEC (2006) Some thoughts on the meaning of open access for university library technical services. Serials Review, 32(1), 17-21. 8 citations.
Kousha, K and M Thelwall (2006) Motivations for URL citations to open access library and information science articles. Scienceometrics, 68(3), 501-517. 26 citations.
Laughlin, G. (2002) Sex, lies, and library cards: The first amendment implications of the use of software filters to control access to internet pornography in public libraries. Drake Law Review, 51, 213. 32 citations.
Mitev, Nathalie N. and Venner, G. M. and Walker, S. (1985) Designing an online public access catalog: Okapi, a catalog on a Local Area Network. Library and Information Research Report, 39. 60 citations.
Moyo, LM (2002) Collections on the web: some access and navigation issues. Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, 26(1), 47-59. 27 citations.
Oakley, RL (1990) Copyright and preservation: a serious problem in need of a thoughtful solution. Commission on Preservation and Access, 1-69. 10 citations.
Proskine, EA (2006) Google's technicolor dreamcoat: a copyright analysis of the Google book search library project. Berkeley Tech Law Journal, 21, 213. 26 citations.
Samuelson, P and Glushko, R (1991) Intellectual property rights for digital library and hypertext publishing systems: an analysis of Xanadu. Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 39-50. 65 citations.
Shannon, DM (1996) Tracking the transition to flexible access library program in two library power elementary schools. School Library Media Quarterly, 23(3), 158-163. 14 citations.
Simpson, C, and Worthington, O (2007) Copyright for schools: a practical guide. Library Student Journal. 46 citations.
Terry, R (2005) Funding the way to open access. PLOS Biology, 3(3). 22 citations.
Toushnetr, R. (2005) My library: copyright and the role of institutions in a peer-to-peer world. UCLA Law Review, 53, 977. 11 citations,
I found Google Scholar to be a much easier resource to use than the conjunction of the Library Literature and Information Science Full Text Database and the Social Sciences Citation Index. The problem was not with locating articles that related to my topic (Copyright and access). I found plenty of intriguing articles on the Full Text database. Had our assignment been to compile a 2 page bibliography of the most relevant sounding articles, it would have been simple. (Which is why, I suspect, we were not assigned to do that.) The difficulty lay in searching for the article on the Social Sciences Citation Index. Many authors of very interesting sounding articles could not be found. Strong publications in the library community, such as Information Outlook, were not to be found on the Citation Index because they are not peer reviewed. It soon became apparent that my promising list of potential articles to include was not so promising after all, because I was unable to locate many of them on the Citation Index. Additionally, for whatever reason the search terms like “library”, “copyright”, and “open access” turned up innumerable medical journal articles that, as far as I could see, had nothing to do with my search terms.
It was clear that I needed to shift strategies. Recalling the class demonstration of the Index, I began to follow the citation trees. Once I finally found an article that a) I had found on the Full Text Database and b) had more than 5 citations, I began to see what articles had been cited, who had cited the original article, and what the articles who had cited the original article had cited. It felt rather like cheating, as I was beginning to come across articles that I had not originally found on the Full Text Database, but it also felt like the best way to use the tools that I had to meet my requirements. This process was fairly slow, and I hit several citation tree “dead ends”, but eventually I was able to fill two pages with solid citations.
Using Google Scholar, on the other hand, was a much simpler and straightforward process. I chose the same search terms from my initial assignment, hit the search button, and immediately had hundreds of pages, about 2/3 of which were relevant hits. It was also very gratifying to have the number of citations displayed on the search page. This enabled me to gauge the criteria for inclusion in my bibliography all at once. Relevant title? From a reputable journal? Has sufficient citation? It spend up the process immensely. I was able to find two pages of highly relevant, highly cited journal articles much more quickly.
In addition, I was able to find articles by two authors (Gadd and Gasaway) whose names showed up many, many times in the Full Text Database but who I was unable to locate in the citation index. As they have both written many articles on this subject area, my first bibliography felt far from comprehensive leaving them out. I was also pleased to find relevant articles from journals that are not officially library science affiliates, such as law journals, or the journal of intellectual property. The abstracts of these articles seemed to fit my topic perfectly, but I would not have found them in the Full Text Database.
I do note, however, that my two bibliographies have very little overlap. A few of the same articles appear on both lists, but by and large these two methods turned up very different sources. I'm certain that one way to account for the differences is that Google Scholar and the Citation Index are pulling articles from different sources. I suspect that the Full Text Database might provide the overlapping point between the two. Still, perhaps the most comprehensive way in which to build a bibliography is to utilize all three of these resources to be certain that no stone is left unturned.
Arms, CR (1999) Getting the picture: observations from the library of congress on providing online access to pictorial images. Library Trends, 18(2), 879-400. 20 citations.
Atherton, Paulene (1978) Books are for use: Final report of the subject access project to the council on library resources. 1-190. 34 citations.
Band, J. (2006) The Google print library project: a copyright analysis. Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, 10(3). 11 citations.
Bennett, S. (1994) The copyright challenge: strengthening the public interest in the digital age. Library Journal, 119(19), 34-37. 9 citations.
Chen, HL and Rasmussen, EM (1999) Intellectual access to images. Library Trends, 48(2), 291-302. 32 citations.
Coleman, A (2997) Self-archiving and the copyright transfer agreements of ISI-ranked library and information science journals. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(2), 286-296. 9 citations.
Coleman, A and Roback, J (2005) Open Access Federation for Library and Information Science. D-Lib Magazine, 11(12). 18 citations.
Covey, Denise (2005) Acquiring copyright permission to digitize and and provide open access to books. Digital Library Federation Council on Library and Information Resources. 1-72. 16 citations.
Gadd, E (1997) Copyright clearance for the digital library: A practical guide for gaining electronic permissions for journal articles. Serials, 10(1), 27-31. 7 citations.
Gasaway, Laura (2002) The new access right and its impact on libraries and library users. Journal of Intellectual Property, 10, 269. 23 citations.
Ginsburg, JC (1993) Copyright without walls? Speculations on literary property in the library of the future. Representations, 42, 53-73. 18 citations.
Jensen, MB (1993) Is the library without walls on a collision course with the 1976 copyright act. Law Library Journal, 85, 619. 17 citations.
Jun-ping, Q and Shao-qiang, Z (2006) Copyright protection technology of digital library and the legal limits of its circumvention. Information Science. 9 citations.
Ke, Q (2008) The copyright policy and construction of open access. Library Work and Study. 5 citations.
Koehler, AEC (2006) Some thoughts on the meaning of open access for university library technical services. Serials Review, 32(1), 17-21. 8 citations.
Kousha, K and M Thelwall (2006) Motivations for URL citations to open access library and information science articles. Scienceometrics, 68(3), 501-517. 26 citations.
Laughlin, G. (2002) Sex, lies, and library cards: The first amendment implications of the use of software filters to control access to internet pornography in public libraries. Drake Law Review, 51, 213. 32 citations.
Mitev, Nathalie N. and Venner, G. M. and Walker, S. (1985) Designing an online public access catalog: Okapi, a catalog on a Local Area Network. Library and Information Research Report, 39. 60 citations.
Moyo, LM (2002) Collections on the web: some access and navigation issues. Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, 26(1), 47-59. 27 citations.
Oakley, RL (1990) Copyright and preservation: a serious problem in need of a thoughtful solution. Commission on Preservation and Access, 1-69. 10 citations.
Proskine, EA (2006) Google's technicolor dreamcoat: a copyright analysis of the Google book search library project. Berkeley Tech Law Journal, 21, 213. 26 citations.
Samuelson, P and Glushko, R (1991) Intellectual property rights for digital library and hypertext publishing systems: an analysis of Xanadu. Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 39-50. 65 citations.
Shannon, DM (1996) Tracking the transition to flexible access library program in two library power elementary schools. School Library Media Quarterly, 23(3), 158-163. 14 citations.
Simpson, C, and Worthington, O (2007) Copyright for schools: a practical guide. Library Student Journal. 46 citations.
Terry, R (2005) Funding the way to open access. PLOS Biology, 3(3). 22 citations.
Toushnetr, R. (2005) My library: copyright and the role of institutions in a peer-to-peer world. UCLA Law Review, 53, 977. 11 citations,
I found Google Scholar to be a much easier resource to use than the conjunction of the Library Literature and Information Science Full Text Database and the Social Sciences Citation Index. The problem was not with locating articles that related to my topic (Copyright and access). I found plenty of intriguing articles on the Full Text database. Had our assignment been to compile a 2 page bibliography of the most relevant sounding articles, it would have been simple. (Which is why, I suspect, we were not assigned to do that.) The difficulty lay in searching for the article on the Social Sciences Citation Index. Many authors of very interesting sounding articles could not be found. Strong publications in the library community, such as Information Outlook, were not to be found on the Citation Index because they are not peer reviewed. It soon became apparent that my promising list of potential articles to include was not so promising after all, because I was unable to locate many of them on the Citation Index. Additionally, for whatever reason the search terms like “library”, “copyright”, and “open access” turned up innumerable medical journal articles that, as far as I could see, had nothing to do with my search terms.
It was clear that I needed to shift strategies. Recalling the class demonstration of the Index, I began to follow the citation trees. Once I finally found an article that a) I had found on the Full Text Database and b) had more than 5 citations, I began to see what articles had been cited, who had cited the original article, and what the articles who had cited the original article had cited. It felt rather like cheating, as I was beginning to come across articles that I had not originally found on the Full Text Database, but it also felt like the best way to use the tools that I had to meet my requirements. This process was fairly slow, and I hit several citation tree “dead ends”, but eventually I was able to fill two pages with solid citations.
Using Google Scholar, on the other hand, was a much simpler and straightforward process. I chose the same search terms from my initial assignment, hit the search button, and immediately had hundreds of pages, about 2/3 of which were relevant hits. It was also very gratifying to have the number of citations displayed on the search page. This enabled me to gauge the criteria for inclusion in my bibliography all at once. Relevant title? From a reputable journal? Has sufficient citation? It spend up the process immensely. I was able to find two pages of highly relevant, highly cited journal articles much more quickly.
In addition, I was able to find articles by two authors (Gadd and Gasaway) whose names showed up many, many times in the Full Text Database but who I was unable to locate in the citation index. As they have both written many articles on this subject area, my first bibliography felt far from comprehensive leaving them out. I was also pleased to find relevant articles from journals that are not officially library science affiliates, such as law journals, or the journal of intellectual property. The abstracts of these articles seemed to fit my topic perfectly, but I would not have found them in the Full Text Database.
I do note, however, that my two bibliographies have very little overlap. A few of the same articles appear on both lists, but by and large these two methods turned up very different sources. I'm certain that one way to account for the differences is that Google Scholar and the Citation Index are pulling articles from different sources. I suspect that the Full Text Database might provide the overlapping point between the two. Still, perhaps the most comprehensive way in which to build a bibliography is to utilize all three of these resources to be certain that no stone is left unturned.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Assignment #8
Copyright and Access Bibliography
Antelman K (2004) Do open-access articles have greater research impact? College and Research Libraries, 65(5), 372-382. (69 citations)
Bar-Ilan J (2008) Informetrics at the beginning of the 21rst century:A review. Journal of Informetrics, 2(1), 1-58. (18 citations)
Barjak F (2006) The role of the internet in informal scholarly communication. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(10), 1350-1367. (16 citations)
Borrull AL, Oppenheim C (2004) Legal aspects of the web. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 38, 483-548, (5 citations)
Correia AMR, Neto MD (2002) The role of eprint archives in the access to, and dissemination of, scientific grey literature: LIZA- a case study by the National Library of Portugal. Journal of Information Science, 28(3), 231-241. (6 citations)
Correia AMR, Teixeira JC (2005) Reforming scholarly publishing and knowledge communication – From the advent of the scholarly journal to the challenges of open access. Online Information Review, 29(4), 349-364. (6 citations)
Craig ID, Plume AM, McVeigh ME, et al. (2007) Do open access articles have greater citation impact? A critical review of the literature. Journal of Informetrics, 1(3), 239-248. (23 citations)
Davis PM, Lewenstein BV, Simon DH, et al. (2008) Open access publishing, article downloads, and cirations: randomized control trial. British Medical Journal, 337(7665). (24 citations)
Drott MC (2006) Open access. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 40, 79-109. (5 citations)
Eysenbach G (2006) Citation advantage of open access articles. PLOS Biology, 4(5), 692-698. (70 citations)
Gadd, E., Oppenheim, C., & Probets, S. (2003). RoMEO Studies 3: how academics expect to use open-access research papers. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (Folkestone, England), 35(3), 171-87. (10 citations)
Nicholas D, Huntington P, Rowlands I (2005). Open access journal publishing: the views of some of the worlds senior authors. Journal of Documentation. 61(4), 497-519. (11 citations)
Nicholas D, Huntington P, Jamali HR, et al. (2006) Finding information in (very large) digital libraries: A deep log approach to determining differences in use according to method of access. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 32(2), 119-126. (7 citations)
Nicholas D, Huntington P, Jainali HR (2007) Open access in context: A user study. Journal of Documentation, 63(6), 853-878. (5 citations)
Nicholas D, Huntington P, Jamali HR (2007) The impact of open access publishing (and other access initiatives) on use and users of digital scholarly journals. Learned Publishing, 20(1), 11-15. (8 citations)
Norris M, Oppenheim C, Rowland F (2008) The citation advantages of open access articles. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 59(12), 1963-1972. (11 citations)
Palmer CL (2005) Scholarly work and the shaping of digital access. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(11), 1140-1153. (19 citations)
Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate. PLOS One, 2(3). (18 citations)
Rowley J, Urquhart C (2007) Understanding student information behaviour in relation to electronic information services: Lessons from longitudinal evaluation and monitoring, part 1. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(8), 1162-1174. (8 citations)
Sotudeh H, Horri A (2007) The citation performance of open access journals: A disciplinary investitation of citation distrubution models. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 108-120. (5 citations)
Wouters P, de Vries R (2004) Formally citing the web. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(14), 1250-1260. (6 citations)
Wren, JD (2005) Open access and openly accessible: a study of scientific publications shared via the internet. British Medical Journal, 330(7500), 1128-1131. (28 citations)
Yitzhaki M, Hammershlag G (2004) Accessibility and use of information sources among computer scientists and software engineers in Israel: Academy versus industry. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(9), 832-842. (8 citations)
Antelman K (2004) Do open-access articles have greater research impact? College and Research Libraries, 65(5), 372-382. (69 citations)
Bar-Ilan J (2008) Informetrics at the beginning of the 21rst century:A review. Journal of Informetrics, 2(1), 1-58. (18 citations)
Barjak F (2006) The role of the internet in informal scholarly communication. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(10), 1350-1367. (16 citations)
Borrull AL, Oppenheim C (2004) Legal aspects of the web. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 38, 483-548, (5 citations)
Correia AMR, Neto MD (2002) The role of eprint archives in the access to, and dissemination of, scientific grey literature: LIZA- a case study by the National Library of Portugal. Journal of Information Science, 28(3), 231-241. (6 citations)
Correia AMR, Teixeira JC (2005) Reforming scholarly publishing and knowledge communication – From the advent of the scholarly journal to the challenges of open access. Online Information Review, 29(4), 349-364. (6 citations)
Craig ID, Plume AM, McVeigh ME, et al. (2007) Do open access articles have greater citation impact? A critical review of the literature. Journal of Informetrics, 1(3), 239-248. (23 citations)
Davis PM, Lewenstein BV, Simon DH, et al. (2008) Open access publishing, article downloads, and cirations: randomized control trial. British Medical Journal, 337(7665). (24 citations)
Drott MC (2006) Open access. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 40, 79-109. (5 citations)
Eysenbach G (2006) Citation advantage of open access articles. PLOS Biology, 4(5), 692-698. (70 citations)
Gadd, E., Oppenheim, C., & Probets, S. (2003). RoMEO Studies 3: how academics expect to use open-access research papers. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (Folkestone, England), 35(3), 171-87. (10 citations)
Nicholas D, Huntington P, Rowlands I (2005). Open access journal publishing: the views of some of the worlds senior authors. Journal of Documentation. 61(4), 497-519. (11 citations)
Nicholas D, Huntington P, Jamali HR, et al. (2006) Finding information in (very large) digital libraries: A deep log approach to determining differences in use according to method of access. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 32(2), 119-126. (7 citations)
Nicholas D, Huntington P, Jainali HR (2007) Open access in context: A user study. Journal of Documentation, 63(6), 853-878. (5 citations)
Nicholas D, Huntington P, Jamali HR (2007) The impact of open access publishing (and other access initiatives) on use and users of digital scholarly journals. Learned Publishing, 20(1), 11-15. (8 citations)
Norris M, Oppenheim C, Rowland F (2008) The citation advantages of open access articles. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 59(12), 1963-1972. (11 citations)
Palmer CL (2005) Scholarly work and the shaping of digital access. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(11), 1140-1153. (19 citations)
Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate. PLOS One, 2(3). (18 citations)
Rowley J, Urquhart C (2007) Understanding student information behaviour in relation to electronic information services: Lessons from longitudinal evaluation and monitoring, part 1. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(8), 1162-1174. (8 citations)
Sotudeh H, Horri A (2007) The citation performance of open access journals: A disciplinary investitation of citation distrubution models. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 108-120. (5 citations)
Wouters P, de Vries R (2004) Formally citing the web. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(14), 1250-1260. (6 citations)
Wren, JD (2005) Open access and openly accessible: a study of scientific publications shared via the internet. British Medical Journal, 330(7500), 1128-1131. (28 citations)
Yitzhaki M, Hammershlag G (2004) Accessibility and use of information sources among computer scientists and software engineers in Israel: Academy versus industry. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(9), 832-842. (8 citations)
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