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Information Literacy & Open Access for Physics and Astronomy Graduate StudentsJackie Werner, Science LibrarianGeorgia State [email protected]
Outline
Background Open Access & SCOAP3
Open Access in Physics & Astronomy Faculty and Open Access Graduate Students and Library Research
Methodology Results Discussion
Introduction
Open Access & SCOAP3
Open Access & SCOAP3
SCOAP3
Sponsoring Committee for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
High-Energy Physics partnership Negotiated with top ten HEP journals to pay fees to make all
articles green open access 4,280 articles published as green OA in 2014, “comprising the
majority of the high-quality peer-reviewed literature in the field of High-Energy Physics”
OA in Physics & Astronomy
arXiv Founded in 1991 Preprints and OA articles Multiple disciplines Most HEP articles appear on arXiv
OA in Physics & Astronomy
Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Founded in 1992 Abstract database including
arXiv & traditional journals Includes OA and non Digitizes older publications
OA in Physics & Astronomy
INSPIRE-HEP Replaced SPIRES in 2012 Searches arXiv & HEP resources Curated content in HEP Includes OA and non
OA in Physics & Astronomy
CERN Document Server (CDS) Covers all CERN publications Searches arXiv & other HEP
publications Includes OA and non
OA in Physics & Astronomy
Google Scholar Not technically OA, but…
Faculty and Open Access
HEP researchers support open access Scientists are aware of open access Faculty & graduate students recognize what is open access
Graduate Students and Library Research Graduate students turn to faculty advisors and lab group for
literature searches …if they receive instruction at all Are graduate students aware of open access?
My Research
Methodology
Conducted at Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University
Interviewed graduate coordinator for Physics and Astronomy program
Sent survey to all Physics & Astronomy graduate students
Results
Current responses: 1 graduate coordinator interview 16 complete graduate student surveys
0-1 years in program: 4 1-2 years: 3 2-3 years: 3 3-4 years: 3 4+ years: 3
Q8. Have you ever received training or asked for help on how to search for physics articles in graduate school? • No• Yes, in graduate courses• Yes, by advisor• Yes, by a librarian speaking to a group• Yes, but only after asking a professor/librarian• Yes, somewhere else
Information Literacy Instruction – Faculty Graduate students given practice with oral presentation and
published papers Information literacy instruction and practice depends on
graduate advisors No library orientation for graduate students?
Information Literacy Instruction – Graduate Students
None Yes Other0
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Information Literacy Instruction – Graduate Students
None Graduate Courses
Advisor Librarian After asking Fellow Students
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Q6. Are you aware of open access (OA)?1. Never heard of it2. Heard the term, but don’t know what it means3. Yes, somewhat aware4. Yes, very aware5. Yes, and I keep up with news and developments in
open access
Open Access – Faculty
Library faculty advisory board spent year educating campus on open access
Official stance open access publication is encouraged, but not required
Students may not know which resources library is paying for
Open Access – Graduate Students
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Open Access – Graduate Students
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Q9. Have you published a peer-reviewed article while in graduate school?Q10. How many peer-reviewed articles have you published while in graduate school?Q11. How many peer-reviewed articles have you submitted while in graduate school, but are not yet published?Q12. Where is your article(s) currently available?
Publication – Faculty
Some faculty “take it as their responsibility” to have students write papers, others don’t
Publication is not required for graduation
Publication – Graduate Students
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Availability of Publications
Subscription journal
OA journal Subject archive University archive Other0
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Q5. Are you aware of these resources and do you use them to find physics and/or astronomy articles?1. Never heard of2. Aware of but don’t use/use rarely3. Aware of and use4. Use frequently
Resources Used – Faculty
“Everybody uses [arXiv] without fail.” Many faculty don’t use journals and don’t care about final
publication
Resources Used – Graduate Students
ADS arXiv CDS Google Google Scholar
SPIRES Web of Science
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Resources Used – Graduate Students
ADS arXiv CDS Google Google Scholar
SPIRES Web of Science
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Resources Used – Graduate Students
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Q13. How do you keep up with new developments and publications in your field?
Keeping Up – Faculty
“Everybody uses [arXiv] without fail.” Faculty get Table of Contents from journals Students mostly use Google Scholar—”as good as any search
engine we pay for” Faculty and students encouraged to keep up in person
(conferences, etc.)
Keeping Up – Graduate Students
Individual Journals
Google Scholar
In-Person arXiv Readcube RSS Doesn't0
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Q14. How do you think methods of keeping up with new developments and /or publications in your field will change in the next five years?
Changes in Five Years
No “dramatic changes” Aggregation “Scientific community similar to LinkedIn” Improvements to existing resources “Wider recognition of open access journals”
Takeaways
We don’t know how graduate students do research Open access resources may serve students’ needs …but students don’t know what library resources do Many questions still to ask
References Catalano, A. (2011). Patterns of graduate students' information seeking
behavior: A meta-synthesis of the literature. Journal of Documentation, 69(2): 243-274.
George, C., Bright, A., Hurlbert, T., Linke, E.C., St. Clair, G., & Stein, J. (2006). Scholarly use of information: Graduate students' information seeking behaviour. Information Research, 11(4): paper 272. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/11-4/paper272.html.
Gentil-Beccot, A., Mele, S., & Brooks, T.C. (2009). Citing and reading behaviours in high-energy physics: How a community stopped worrying about journals and learned to love repositories. Scientometrics, 84(2), 345-355.
Ginsparg, P. (1994). First steps towards electronic research communication. Computers in Physics, 8(2), 390-396.
Hemminger, B.M., Lu, D., Vaughan, K.T.L., Adams, S.J. (2007). Information seeking behavior of academic students. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(14): 2205-2225.
References Jamali, H.R. & Nicholas, D. (2006). Communication and information-seeking
behaviour of research students in physicist and astronomy. ASIST Annual Conference, 3-8 November 2006, Austin, Texas.
Larivière, V., Sugimoto, C. R., Bergeron, P. (2013). In their own image? A comparison of doctoral students' and faculty members' referencing behavior. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(5): 1045-1054.
Park, J. (2007). Motivations for web-based scholarly publishing: Do scientists recognize open availability as an advantage? Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 40(4): 343-369.
Suber, P. (2013). Open Access Overview. Retrieved from http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm (June 22, 2015).
Any Questions?Jackie Werner ([email protected])