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The Trend Analysis of E-book Research in Library and Information Studies
No full text電子書的發展正經歷一個重要的蛻變期，自1971年古騰堡計畫(Project
Gutenberg)發跡以來，電子書歷經目的、內容、工具與形式上的改變，而成就了現今的使用與閱讀習慣。2010 年被視為「電子書元年」，許多產業與分析都認為電子書發展進入成熟階段，值此時機本研究針對過去 30 年的電子書研究，進行趨勢的分析，以書目計量方法深入瞭解電子書研究的重要議題與脈絡發展，期能為電子書元年提供文獻研究上的支持，並進一步歸納未來可能的趨勢方向。
其中特別選擇圖書與資訊科學領域做為優先探索的學科領域，由於圖書館與資訊機構具有其知識傳播中心的歷史地位與角色，自古至今即為收藏並整理知識的組織，當內容以及民眾可接觸的資訊資源由紙本形式擴展到數位型式，由印刷書籍到電子書，圖書館的館藏發展政策與服務對象也隨之擴充。再者，過去研究曾指出電子資源相關研究在圖書資訊學領域研究所佔比重甚高，顯示該領域對於電子書相關主題的重視，因此本研究也透過內容分析方法，進一步彙整圖書資訊學領域中對電子書研究的重要議題及其趨勢發展。
本研究結果顯示電子書研究主要集中在 2010 年，依據各年代的數量變化呼應先前研究可歸納為發跡期(1978-1991)、潛伏期(1992-1999)、曇花期(2000-2002)、沉潛期(2003-2007)與快速成長期(2008-2010)。重要研究議題則涵蓋總論、內容、類型、科技、出版與供應、規範、市場、圖書館業務以及電子書之使用與應用之九大方向；其中較為熱門的主題集中在電子書出版與供應業務、定義與趨勢發展、電子書市場以及電子書科技等四大類別。研究結果除了反應電子書研究發展處起步趨向平穩成長的階段，包含圖書館、資訊內容以及載具科技等各種利害關係人都由觀望逐漸轉為參與的態度。本研究推論未來電子書研究的發展方向也將由基礎研究轉為應用問題導向，因此諸如圖書館業務、電子書規範與標準、電子之使用與應用等反應實務操作的研究議題應會越來越受到重視。The research field of ebook has faced its first transforming period. From the earliest launch of Project Gutenberg in 1971, the direction, content, technologies and formats of ebook has been through continuous and rapid change. And these changes also shape the patterns that identify the modern users and readers of ebook. While 2010 is recognized as the first year of the ebook era by publishers, vendors and stakeholders, it is believed that the general development of the ebook industry is getting steady and ready for the next burst of innovations. In this vein, the present study summarizes a quantitative synthesis of studies of ebook in the past 30 years, it examines the critical issues, trends and context of ebook research to form a theoretically solid basis that explains the ebook-related practices.
Library and information science has been chosen specifically as the target disciplinary area in this study for its long tradition of concentration on knowledge and resource organization. With the changing formats from print to digital, reactions and adjustment measures are taken by library and information institutions. Additionally, what has been found from the previous studies supports that researches about electronic resources have been of great significance in the field of library and information science. This study therefore takes a step forward to
qualitatively analyze and summary the issues and the interior change within the topic of ebook.
The results have shown a peak of the quantity of ebook studies in 2010, supporting the public acknowledgement of 2010 as the first year of the ebook era. Further analysis show that ebook studies have been through five significant stages: Initiate (1978-1991), Incubation (1992-1999), First Burst (2000-2002), Rally (2003-2007) and Rapid Growth (2008-2010). Nine issues are found significant in the overall 33 years of ebook research, among them the publishing of e-books, genesis of e-book, e-book in libraries, e-book market and e-book technology are the top 5 issues. These results reflect the transformation of ebook studies from the initial stage to the stably growth, stakeholders including the libraries, publishers and information institutions are getting to actively take part in the ebook business. It is also forecasted that the future trend of ebook studies shall step forward to more application- and problem-oriented ways, practical issues that benefits the practice directly, such as the format, regulation and usage will get more and more attention
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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