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This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
Where am I?
Category: publishing
It seems like there was nothing new from the established publishers for a while - nothing with their core business. Some experimented with ways to communicate and most updated content management systems, but it seemed like most weren't touching their...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:15 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publishing
As I've mentioned, science libraries are very much in financial trouble just as their parent institutions and other organizations are right now. There have been many calls for publishers to hold the line on price increases and some have done...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:47 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publishing
It just hit me this morning that new communications journals are sort of less expected right now. In this post I'll briefly discuss the traditional place of letters or communications publications in scholarly communications (in science) and then weave in...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:35 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
quality? popularity? utility? I'm pretty sure I've blogged about MESUR (a research project that studied how usage statistics - as we call them in the industry - can be a metric like citations are). I've also blogged a discussion by...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 9:02 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: libraries
Sometimes so many things come up at the same time it becomes difficult if impossible to ignore. Here's just a brief list: An oceanographer came to me and asked to see a print copy of an AGU journal article. If...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:37 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publishing
I love the DOI. It's the best thing since sliced bread. Actually, it's better than sliced bread - I can slice my own bread - but I can't do what DOIs do so easily. If you've been living under a...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:25 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publishing
In case you can't read this screenshot of an e-mail (source, via), I'll quote it for you: "Are you on a first name basis with the librarian? If so, chances are, you're spending too much time at the library....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 9:44 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publishing
On one side, there are some who say the future of scholarly communication in science is databases - or, rather, more or less shared and curated data sets. Some of the folks in this crowd go farther to say that...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
It's that time again: the 2008 Journal Citation Reports are out from Thomson Reuters. It's started already, too, the e-mails to listservs and press releases. So I'm re-posting one of my posts from my old blog for those of you...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: open access
From via Caveat Lector. Position Statement From University Press Directors on Free Access to Scholarly Journal Articles: 1. The undersigned university press directors support the dissemination of scholarly research as broadly as possible. 2. We support the free access to...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 9:27 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
