OIKLScan issue #12

14 November, 2017

Universities and Libraries Which Books? Where? The Future of the Printed Book

Scholars Launch Non-Profit Rival to ResearchGate and Academia.edu Source: David Matthews, for Times Higher Education

ASU Library has published a white paper on the future of the printed book, and the analysis is aimed at fostering engagement with print resources among library users, particularly with open stack print collections and users within the local community.

Image Source: Cover photo of the article from Times Higher Education

Purdue App Puts Learning Data into Students' Hands

This article from Times Higher Education brings news of a rival for the (in)-famous ResearchGate and Academia.edu websites. Created by academics, the new ScholarlyHub Purdue University has website harbours ambitions to build a platform that developed a new app to help students get learning would at once be a social network, publishing platform and repository, and eventually replace the two analytics – about themselves. Like a fitbit for incumbents. academics, the app will allow students to self-track More about Scholarly Communications and Bibliometrics: 1. Metrics: Human-Made, but Humane? their academic and 2. Altmetrics, Legacy Scholarship, and Scholarly extracurricular pursuits Legacy and rate how productive 3.

Academics and Copyright Ownership: Ignorant, they are, amongst other Confused or Misled? things.

Novel Approach to A.I. Wages War on Writer’s Block

Research Library Issues: Holistic Librarianship

A researcher has drawn on A.I. technology to build a neural network capable of autonomously creating the first sentence of a novel – to help authors with writer’s block.

Source: Association of Research Libraries

The November issue of the Research Library Issues report from the Association of Research Libraries aims to explore different models and approaches to holistic librarianship and the convergence among librarians in a variety of roles.

More about Librarianship and Library Strategy: 1. Closing the divide: Subject librarians and scholarly communication librarians can work together to reach common goals 2. Canadian Librarians: Creating innovative strategies on their path to Success 3. Measures of Change in Academic Library Behavior

SPEC Kit 357: Libraries, Presses, and Publishing Source: Association of Research Libraries

The results of the Association of Research Libraries’ SPEC (Systems and Procedures Exchange Center) Survey Program are

summarized in this report, and provide information on the breadth of practice taking place at the intersection of research libraries, presses, and publishing, and on the blurring of boundaries as libraries engage in publishing and press activities in new ways.

More about Library Publishing and Digital Collections: 1. We Are All Teachers: A Collaborative Approach to Digital Collection Development 2. Whose Knowledge? Representing Indigenous Realities in Library and Archival Collections

Distribution Features and Intellectual Structures of Digital Humanities Source: Qing Wang, Journal of Documentation

This paper provides a retrospective bibliometric analysis of documents about digital humanities, and it examines the distribution of research outputs and languages, identifies the active journals and institutions, dissects the network of categories and cited references, and interprets the hot research topics.

More about Digital Humanities: 1. Getting on the Map: A Case Study in Digital Pedagogy and Undergraduate Crowdsourcing

Predicting the Role of Library Bookshelves in 2025 Source: Coen Wilders, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 43, Issue 5

This paper examines the possible roles bookshelves have in the future library space, drawing on a case study of The Utrecht University Library. It draws on acquisition and user data, and on interviews with publishers and users to provide its recommendations and insights.

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