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Academic authorship: who, why and in what order?
Get PDFWe are frequently asked by our colleagues and students for advice on authorship for scientific articles. This short paper outlines some of the issues that we have experienced and the advice we usually provide. This editorial follows on from our work on submitting a paper1 and also on writing an academic paper for publication.2 We should like to start by noting that, in our view, there exist two separate, but related issues: (a) authorship and (b) order of authors. The issue of authorship centres on the notion of who can be an author, who should be an author and who definitely should not be an author, and this is partly discipline specific. The second issue, the order of authors, is usually dictated by the academic tradition from which the work comes. One can immediately envisage disagreements within a multi-disciplinary team of researchers where members of the team may have different approaches to authorship order
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Academic libraries and toxic leadership /
No full textAcademic Libraries and Toxic Leadership examines a phenomenon that has yet to be seriously explored. While other so-called feminized professions, such as nursing, have been studied for their tendency to create toxic leadership environments, thus far academic librarianship has not. This book focuses on how to identify a toxic leader in an academic library setting, how to address toxic leadership, and how to work toward eradicating it from the organization. In addition, it discusses which steps can be used to prevent libraries from hiring toxic leaders.Front Cover; Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Why the Research on Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership?; Organization of This Book; References; 1 What Is Leadership? What Is Toxic Leadership?; 1.1 Defining Leadership; 1.2 The Study of Leadership in Library and Information Studies (LIS); 1.3 Leadership in Academic Libraries; 1.4 Defining Toxic Leadership; 1.5 Identifying Toxic Leadership in the Literature; 1.6 Toxic Leadership in Academic Libraries; References; 2 How to Acknowledge Toxic Leadership's Presence.2.1 The Effects of Toxic Leadership2.2 Effects on Academic Librarians; 2.3 Effects on User Services; 2.4 When is it not Toxic Leadership?; References; 3 What to Do About Toxic Leadership?; 3.1 What to Do About the Situation at Your Library?; 3.2 Documenting Incidents of Toxic Behavior; 3.3 Building a Support Network; 3.3.1 Expanding the Support Network; 3.3.2 Other Options; 3.4 Who to Talk to About What Is Happening?; 3.5 The Consequences of Inaction; 3.6 Why Stay?; 3.7 Who Benefits From Inaction?; 3.8 Summary; References; 4 Regaining Control of the Library.4.1 The Toxic Leader Has Been Removed, Now What?4.2 Mechanisms to Counter Toxic Leadership; 4.3 The Need for Academic Libraries to Practice Self-Examination; 4.4 Professional Library Associations Lack "People Training"; 4.5 Maintaining a Nontoxic Leader Library; 4.5.1 The Interview Process: Making it More Inclusive; 4.5.2 Selecting Interim Leaders From Within the Library; 4.6 The Role Human Resources Should Be Playing; 4.7 The Role of the Academic Institution's Upper Administration; 4.8 Summary; References; 5 Healing for the Organization Free of Toxic Leaders.5.1 Healing the Academic Library Free of Toxic Leaders5.2 Healing for Academic Librarians; 5.3 Minimizing Residual Toxicity in the Academic Library; 5.4 Healing for Librarians Who Have Left; 5.5 Summary; References; 6 Cases; 6.1 Introduction; Case 1; Discussion Questions; Case 2; Discussion Questions; Case 3; Discussion Questions; Case 4; Discussion Questions; Reference; Conclusion; Appendix A: Survey Results; A.1 Demographics; A.1.1 Country of Residency; A.2 Leadership and Toxic Leadership Items; Appendix B: Semi-Structured Interview Guide; Index; Back Cover.Includes bibliographical references and index.Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership examines a phenomenon that has yet to be seriously explored. While other so-called feminized professions, such as nursing, have been studied for their tendency to create toxic leadership environments, thus far academic librarianship has not. This book focuses on how to identify a toxic leader in an academic library setting, how to address toxic leadership, and how to work toward eradicating it from the organization. In addition, it discusses which steps can be used to prevent libraries from hiring toxic leaders.Elsevie
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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