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Cognitive styles and the use of electronic journals in a mobile context

Chan, Chu-Han; Hsieh, Chen-Wei; Y. Chen, Sherry - In: Journal of Documentation 70 (2014) 6, pp. 997-1014

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how different cognitive style groups use electronic journals via mobile devices, with an emphasis on the use of search mechanisms, the approaches to judge the relevance and to refine the results, the use of horizontal screens, and on the...

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Open-access mega-journals

Spezi, Valerie; Wakeling, Simon; Pinfield, Stephen; … - In: Journal of Documentation 73 (2017) 2, pp. 263-283

Purpose Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE , are large scale, broad scope journals that operate an open access business model (normally based on article-processing charges), and which employ...

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Individuation through infrastructure: Get Full Text Research , data extraction and the academic publishing oligopoly

Moore, Samuel A. - In: Journal of Documentation 77 (2020) 1, pp. 129-141

/methodology/approach Through a critical exploration of Get Full Text Research , a service developed collaboratively by five of the world's largest … academic publishers to provide such seamless access to academic research, the article shows how publishers are seeking to …

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Electronic journals redux

Maxymuk, John - In: The Bottom Line 17 (2004) 2, pp. 72-74

When academic journals in electronic format were introduced, librarians eagerly anticipated a drop in wildly escalating journal prices. After all, publishers incur no paper costs, no mailing costs, and no significant additional production costs in distributing an electronic equivalent to their...

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The nature of the game

McMullen, Anthony - In: The Bottom Line 25 (2012) 4, pp. 149-151

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into issues encountered in maintaining library technologies and electronic collections on a limited budget and with limited personnel. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses real world experiences and data to report on...

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Comparison of usage data of a print journal title versus electronic counterpart

McMullen, Anthony - In: The Bottom Line 27 (2014) 4, pp. 126-128

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide insights and commentary into issues encountered in maintaining and assessing library technologies and technology-based services with limited budgets and with limited personnel. Design/methodology/approach – It uses usage data to illustrate...

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Assessment of full‐text sources used by serials management systems, OpenURL link resolvers, and imported e‐journal MARC records

Chen, Xiaotian - In: Online Information Review 28 (2004) 6, pp. 428-434

This article discusses full‐text source lists used by full‐text finding tools, such as serials management systems, OpenURL link resolvers, and imported e‐journal MARC records. Although the vendors of full‐text finding tools claim that they frequently update their full‐text source lists...

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Citation searching

Jacsó, Péter - In: Online Information Review 28 (2004) 6, pp. 454-460

Citation searching has been available for decades, although in a limited form. This article discusses the advantages … and limitations of searching by cited references, and also some alternatives in searching for cited references, before … presenting a case study involving citation searching in full‐text indexes. …

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E‐journals: A How‐to‐Do‐It Manual for Building, Managing and Supporting Electronic Journal Collections

Chawner, Brenda - In: Online Information Review 30 (2006) 5, pp. 597-598

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Korean Electronic Site License Initiative: archiving of electronic journals

Park, Eun G.; Nam Choi, Ho - In: Online Information Review 30 (2006) 6, pp. 731-736

/methodology/approach – The research involves identifying a system architecture, testing its prototype, deciding journal selection criteria and …

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