Aslib Proceedings: Volume 61 Issue 1

Electronic journals and changes in scholarly article seeking and reading patterns

Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King, Sheri Edwards, Lei Wu

By tracking the information‐seeking and reading patterns of science, technology, medical and social science faculty members from 1977 to the present, this paper seeks to examine…

Scholarly e‐books: the views of 16,000 academics: Results from the JISC National E‐Book Observatory

Hamid R. Jamali, David Nicholas, Ian Rowlands

This study, a part of JISC‐funded UK National E‐Books Observatory, aims to find out about the perspective of students and academics, the main e‐book users, on e‐books.

Level of maturity of the competitive intelligence function: Case study of a retail bank in South Africa

David Heppes, Adeline du Toit

While competitive intelligence (CI) is a relatively new business discipline, it is evolving in complexity and importance, to maintain pace with rapid business development. It is…

The role and future of the monograph in arts and humanities research

Peter Williams, Iain Stevenson, David Nicholas, Anthony Watkinson, Ian Rowlands

The purpose of this paper is to report on a project undertaken at University College London (UCL) examining the role and value of the academic monograph – considering continuing…

Visualization of scientific co‐authorship in Spanish universities: From regionalization to internationalization

Carlos Olmeda‐Gómez, Antonio Perianes‐Rodriguez, Ma Antonia Ovalle‐Perandones, Vicente P. Guerrero‐Bote, Felix de Moya Anegón

The purpose of this paper is to visualize the inter‐university and international collaboration networks generated by Spanish universities based on the co‐authorship of scientific…

A longitudinal analysis of alternative document models

Nigel Payne, Mike Thelwall

Alternative document models (ADMs) were created with the purpose of reducing the extent to which anomalies occur in counts of web links at the page level, and have been used…