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Bypassing Interlibrary Loan via Twitter: An exploration of
#icanhazPDF requestsCarolyn Caffrey Gardner – USC
Gabriel J. Gardner – CSULB
#yesyoucanhazpdf
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What is #icanhazPDF?
A sampling:
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Methods
• Tweet Archivist, @tweetarchivist
• April – August 2014
• Captured 1,238 tweets --- 824 were
requests of some kind
• Tracked down the source and recorded
the full citation information
• Used Web of Science to categorize items
by research category
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THE WHO Twitter & #icanhazpdf
Credit: Rosaura Ochoa https://flic.kr/p/717UrA
#yesyoucanhazpdf
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Who’s on Twitter?• Priem, Costello, & Dzuba (2012) sampled 5 representative US and
UK universities to estimate scholarly Twitter use
• “no one … discipline is significantly over-represented on Twitter”
Credit: Priem, Costello, & Dzuba (2012)
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Who’s using #icanhazPDF?• Liu (2013) randomly sampled 100 #icanhazPDF tweets and coded
them based on profile bio data
• “These groups presumably have access to certain journals already,
and previously might have employed more closed means of
obtaining articles.”
Credit: Liu (2013)
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THE WHAT
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
#yesyoucanhazpdf
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Top 10 Journals RequestedTitle Frequency
Nature 16
Science 14
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
7
Current Biology 4
Energy Policy 4
Genome Medicine 4
JAMA 4
Nature Biotechnology 4
Nature Communications 4
Nature Protocols 4
90% of requests were
journal articles
87% of those articles
were indexed in Web
of Science
Credit: the.Firebottle https://flic.kr/p/bRSyM
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Arts & Humanities
1%
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
62%
Physical Sciences13%
Social Sciences11%
Technology 13%
REQUESTS BY SUBJECT CATEGORY
#yesyoucanhazpdf
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Repeat ‘offenders’?
• “Most users (76%) only used
#icanhazPDF once during the data
collection dates. However, there were
some repeat users. Not counting retweets,
the most items requested by any one user
was 12.”
Credit: d_pham https://flic.kr/p/dikcUf
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THE WHEN
Credit: zoutedrop https://flic.kr/p/4wKyXW
#yesyoucanhazpdf
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Years of Publication
Request Frequencies by Publication Year
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Publication Year
Publication Year by Percentage
2014 2009-2013 2000-2008 1990-1999 1921-1989
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THE WHERE
#yesyoucanhazpdf
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#icanhazPDF Requests by Country
United States 128
Great Britain 110
Germany 20
Canada 17
Australia 13
France 13
Netherlands 10
Brazil 9
Sweden 6
Chile 5
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THE WHY?Credit: Abulic Monkey
https://flic.kr/p/3KhRaW
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Discussion
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References & Contact Us:
• References
available at:
http://tinyurl.com/
ichpdfbib
(PDF)
• Images & screen-captures by
authors unless otherwise noted
• Carolyn C. Gardner• [email protected]
• @cmcaffre
• Gabriel J. Gardner• [email protected]
• @7_10_7
Credit: Ben Weiner https://flic.kr/p/aJKUYT