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View article: The Wicked Problem of <scp>AI</scp> : Information Avoidance, Uncomfortable Knowledge, and <scp>ChatGPT</scp> in Scholarly Communication
The Wicked Problem of <span>AI</span> : Information Avoidance, Uncomfortable Knowledge, and <span>ChatGPT</span> in Scholarly Communication Open
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has had polarizing effects due to its content‐creation capabilities and the systems in which it is integrated; at the same time, GenAI has been undertheorized in information science. By grounding …
View article: How does digital humanities research talk about AI? A bibliometric analysis
How does digital humanities research talk about AI? A bibliometric analysis Open
Introduction. Despite scholarly work that looked into artificial intelligence (AI)’s impact on digital humanities (DH), there has been little comprehensive investigation into how AI has been reflected and adopted in DH scholarship. This pa…
View article: AI literature review systems: an analysis of performance, affordances, and outputs for a complex topic in the social sciences
AI literature review systems: an analysis of performance, affordances, and outputs for a complex topic in the social sciences Open
Introduction. Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the way that scholars produce work, including through the creation of literature reviews using free or low-cost systems. Despite the importance of the literature revi…
View article: The social epistemology of data-as-documents in knowledge organization
The social epistemology of data-as-documents in knowledge organization Open
This work explores the social epistemology of data, particularly research data, as an entity that can and should be subject to the theories and affordances of knowledge organization. It draws on the work of Margaret Egan and Jesse Shera to…
View article: Why academics under‐share research data: A social relational theory
Why academics under‐share research data: A social relational theory Open
Despite their professed enthusiasm for open science, faculty researchers have been documented as not freely sharing their data; instead, if sharing data at all, they take a minimal approach. A robust research agenda in LIS has documented t…
View article: Social Dimensions of Culture, Code-Switching, and Controlled Vocabularies
Social Dimensions of Culture, Code-Switching, and Controlled Vocabularies Open
Traditionally, the selection of concepts and terms within a knowledge organization system (KOS) has served to reflect a socially constructed but majority opinion on language and therefore represent the perspectives of dominant groups. Mem…
View article: What Is a Person? Emerging Interpretations of <scp>AI</scp> Authorship and Attribution
What Is a Person? Emerging Interpretations of <span>AI</span> Authorship and Attribution Open
Recently, the scholarly community has been eagerly exploring how AI‐produced content should be integrated into both academic writing and scholarly publishing. This paper investigates the prevailing responses to the introduction of ChatGPT …
View article: Data Management Plans: Implications for Automated Analyses
Data Management Plans: Implications for Automated Analyses Open
Data management plans (DMPs) are an essential part of planning data-driven research projects and ensuring long-term access and use of research data and digital objects; however, as text-based documents, DMPs must be analyzed manually for c…
View article: Data Management Plan Implementation, Assessments, and Evaluations: Implications and Recommendations
Data Management Plan Implementation, Assessments, and Evaluations: Implications and Recommendations Open
Data management plans (DMPs) have become nearly a worldwide requirement for research funding. To meet these new funding agency expectations, information professionals across domains and the world have worked to create resources and service…
View article: Health Information Needs of Public Library Leaders during <scp>COVID</scp>‐19
Health Information Needs of Public Library Leaders during <span>COVID</span>‐19 Open
During the COVID‐19 pandemic of 2020–2021, public library leaders across the United States were forced to make decisions quickly that affected the services and resources they were able to provide. However, the health information they had t…
View article: Corpus of Articles Addressing QPQ
Corpus of Articles Addressing QPQ Open
Dataset as a .ris file of scholarly articles pulled from Google Scholar and Scopus using the search term "gift authorship" and analyzed using MAXQDA to identify articles pertaining to quid pro quo authorship.
View article: Authorship Metadata for Video Games: "Collaborator", "Creator", or "Auteur"?
Authorship Metadata for Video Games: "Collaborator", "Creator", or "Auteur"? Open
Author information is the one of the primary access points for information users to find relevant items. While this information is straightforward in most cases, it is not easy to identify and conceptualize who the “author” or “creator” is…
View article: What Is Genre? How Do We Talk About Fiction?: Assessing Complementary Schemas and Approaches
What Is Genre? How Do We Talk About Fiction?: Assessing Complementary Schemas and Approaches Open
Describing fiction is notoriously problematic. One aspect of this is the designation “genre” which can mean different things to different communities involved in the book trade, such as publishers/authors, readers, and information professi…
View article: Active learning in technical services education
Active learning in technical services education Open
Technical services educators have needed to demonstrate creativity and foresight in providing venues for their students, especially in online classes, to engage meaningfully with material. In the past year, that has also meant facilitating…
View article: Examining Doctoral Student Education for Collaborative Authorship in LIS
Examining Doctoral Student Education for Collaborative Authorship in LIS Open
Doctoral students in Library and Information Science (LIS) are encouraged to publish\nformally by themselves, but also with faculty and peer collaborators. Ethical practices for\nevaluating authorship contribution in collaborative research…
View article: Innovating Support for Research: The Coalescence of Scholarly Communication?
Innovating Support for Research: The Coalescence of Scholarly Communication? Open
Dataset for research conducted on the skills required for digital curation. See the protocols document for details on how the data was collected.
View article: Data Management Plans A Review
Data Management Plans A Review Open
With increasing world-wide emphasis on providing access to research data, data management plans (DMPs) have emerged as the expected way for researchers to formalise and communicate their intentions to stakeholders, including to their funde…
View article: Resources for teaching technical services in a rapidly changing global environment
Resources for teaching technical services in a rapidly changing global environment Open
The global information context is changing rapidly, and resources to support instruction relating to the evolving standards and practices in technical services are in high demand. What do we need and how robust are the resources that are a…
View article: Open educational resources: Barriers and benefits in LIS education
Open educational resources: Barriers and benefits in LIS education Open
Around the world, the cost of textbooks is prohibitive for aspiring scholars. In the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2016) indicates college textbook prices rose 88% between 2006 and 2016, approximately triple the rate of th…
View article: Topic Modeling and Facet Analysis of an Emerging Domain: Research Data Management and Data Curation
Topic Modeling and Facet Analysis of an Emerging Domain: Research Data Management and Data Curation Open
Research data management (RDM) is often seen as the overarching field that permits research data to be managed, and is related to the field of data curation (DC), a subset of digital curation. Together, RDM and DC (RDM/DC) allow informatio…
View article: Mapping the KO Community
Mapping the KO Community Open
Knowledge organization (KO) is considered a distinctive disciplinary focus of information science, with strong connections to other intellectual domains such as philosophy, computer science, psychology, sociology, and more. Given its inher…
View article: Exploring Reader-Generated Language to Describe Multicultural Literature
Exploring Reader-Generated Language to Describe Multicultural Literature Open
How do readers describe multicultural fiction works? While in library and information science (LIS) we have the language of appeal factorsand genre trendsto describe works of fiction, these linguistic choices may not be used by readers to …
View article: Engaging linguistically diverse populations: Gatekeepers in rural and sparsely populated areas of the U.S. Midwest
Engaging linguistically diverse populations: Gatekeepers in rural and sparsely populated areas of the U.S. Midwest Open
In the Midwestern U.S., there is a growing population of Latin American immigrants. This increase is driven largely by employment opportunities in generally low-skilled, low wage fields such as meat processing and packing, and other agricu…
View article: Academic Library-Based Publishing: A State of the Evolving Art
Academic Library-Based Publishing: A State of the Evolving Art Open
As technology has advanced, scholarly communication has evolved, creating new opportunities for academic libraries to serve researchers. This article examines the current state and potential future of academic library-based publishing. The…