tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post3216449751511183385..comments2023-09-29T08:51:56.163-07:00Comments on Coyle's InFormation: It's "academic"Karen Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519757456533839003noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-53875142663280379692018-11-28T13:12:54.432-08:002018-11-28T13:12:54.432-08:00Thanks much for these comments - very apt and adds...Thanks much for these comments - very apt and adds good info. I probably should have been clear that I mostly meant that library <i>data</i> doesn't indicate "scholarly" in our genre designations. I worked "around" but not "in" academic libraries so I can only imagine how it is to navigate the requests you describe. It's such a strong part of the academic culture that we will just have to deal with it, in some way or another. (Of course you can quote, link, or do whatever because I put CC-non-commercial on this, although I may just change it to CC-BY sometime in the future - shouldn't change what you wish to do.)Karen Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02519757456533839003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-25410679054282742692018-11-28T07:26:16.124-08:002018-11-28T07:26:16.124-08:00Very useful and entertaining read.
I would only d...Very useful and entertaining read.<br /><br />I would only differ with your final line about libraries not trying to make this distinction.<br /><br />Those librarians who are involved in scholarly communication programs and who collect the research output of an organization, are often asked to produce a report of "peer reviewed" or "scholarly" works published in a given year or by a certain department. <br /><br />We are wrestling with this and are going to have to settle with including a blanket prefatory statement with each report basically repeating what you've said above (but short enough so that the powers-that-be will read it). <br /><br />Additionally, some library publishing programs provide the service of creating DOIs for content and where they use CrossRef, I think there is an understanding that the DOIs will only be created for (ahem, "scholarly") works. So it is again up to the librarian to decide a question that nobody else seems to be able to decide.<br /><br />I'm glad you posted this and hope you don't mind if I quote (with attribution of course) to our research community when we describe the difficulty of answering the question: What scholarly publications has our organization produced in the past year.<br /><br />The only thing we can say to the requestor at this point is, "Here is the list of publications; you figure it out."arhutchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17672081974258415184noreply@blogger.com