Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the current status of Institutional Repository
(IR) and scholarly communications (SC) in Nigeria. The paper also deliberates the benefits …

This study created a comprehensive Country Diversity Score (CDS) index to measure the
degree of journal internationality from a diversity perspective, based on publishing authors' …

Modern digital scholarship requires faculty to navigate an increasingly complex research
and publication world. Liaison librarians are uniquely suited to assist faculty with scholarly …

Institutional Repositories offer the opportunity for academic libraries to collect, preserve and
disseminate an institution's scholarly output. Serving an important service to the community …

This article as part of a more comprehensive study, investigated the level of research and
scholarly communication skills of doctoral students and the channels to be adopted by the …

Introduction: A growing number of academic libraries have specialized their support for
scholarly communication by creating new positions or by expanding units with a focus on …

A number of attempts have been made to determine the key competencies for librarians
supporting scholarly communications (SC), but it remains unclear what technical …

Purpose “Scholarly Communication” is a frequent topic of both the professional and
research literature of Library and Information Science (LIS). Despite efforts by individuals (eg …

Librarianship is constantly confronted with unexpected and quickly evolving sociotechnical
challenges, yet the documents that define the core professional competencies for librarians …

INTRODUCTION In 2012, the Association of Research Libraries reported that 95% of
libraries identified their libraries as leaders of scholarly communication efforts on campus …