Journal of eScience Librarianship

This week we attended another wonderful RDAP (Research Data Access and Preservation) Association Summit! ???? #RDAP25 With the theme of "resiliency" we also heard many messages of interdependence, building relationships, and collaboration throughout the summit. ?? If you want to share your extended work or thoughts on the summit, please consider the RDAP Special Issue. ?? We invite all summit presenters & attendees to submit an article or commentary to the summit special issue that will be published later this year. More information about the submission process will be shared soon! ?? Finally, our thanks to Abigail Goben & Erin D. Foster for their Publishing Action Committee leadership in 2024. ????????????

Happy March and *almost* spring! ?? ?? February 2025 Statistics: 9,619 views and 3,777 downloads ?? Read our current issue now! Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit 2024: https://lnkd.in/d7gi5CfA ??? February 2025 Readership Map showing article views and downloads by country: https://lnkd.in/djiDuBbb Top Article 1?? The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University by Joelen Pastva et al. https://lnkd.in/dH-bCGJn Top Article 2?? Persistent Identifiers for Instruments and Facilities: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities by Matthew Mayernik et al. https://lnkd.in/dKUpTneP Top Article 3?? Ethical considerations in utilizing artificial intelligence for analyzing the NHGRI’s History of Genomics and Human Genome Project archives by Mohammad Hosseini et al. https://lnkd.in/dz9AGqyt Top Article 4?? Academic Library Pricing Dataset for SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: 2018-2024 by @curtisbrundy.bsky.social and Joel B. Thornton https://lnkd.in/e3ScFkaM Top Article 5?? An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Researchers’ Data Management Practices at UVM: Integrated Findings to Develop Research Data Services by Elizabeth Berman https://lnkd.in/g85kf-Kz #DataLibs #OpenAccessPublishing

We survived *the year of* January! ?? Let's check out our stats for the month... ?? January 2025 Stats: 9,097 article views, 2,180 article downloads, 1 article published, and a new issue announced! ?? Read our current issue now! Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit 2024: https://lnkd.in/ezDr_wRk ??? Explore our most recent monthly readership map showing article views and downloads by country: https://lnkd.in/en6Tgmsr Top Article 1?? Academic Library Pricing Dataset for SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: 2018-2024 https://lnkd.in/e3ScFkaM Top Article 2?? The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University https://lnkd.in/dH-bCGJn Top Article 3?? Ethical considerations in utilizing artificial intelligence for analyzing the NHGRI’s History of Genomics and Human Genome Project archives https://lnkd.in/dz9AGqyt Top Article 4?? Persistent Identifiers for Instruments and Facilities: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities https://lnkd.in/dKUpTneP Top Article 5?? Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Under the Context of Research Data Librarianship https://lnkd.in/eFieEax3 #DataLibs #OpenAccessPublishing

The latest issue of the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) has been published! ?? We are excited to announce our Special Issue highlighting works related to the Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit 2024. https://lnkd.in/e5uuqNdN The JeSLIB Editors thank the guest editors, Alicia Cappello, Queen's University, Angel Tang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carolyn Jackson, Kansas State University, Jamaica Jones, University of Pittsburgh, and Abigail Goben, University of Illinois at Chicago, for their dedication and expertise in bringing together this special issue. We thank the RDAP (Research Data Access and Preservation) Association community for their continued support and enthusiasm for JeSLIB and its mission to advance the theory and practice of librarianship focusing on services related to data-driven research and promoting high standards in peer review and open access. Congratulations to all the authors who contributed to make this a success! ?? You can access the complete Special Issue: Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit 2024 now! https://lnkd.in/ezDr_wRk

Universities can pay more than a quarter of a million dollars per year for access to a citation index. Shocking, right? In 2024 Curtis Brundy and Joel B. Thornton, CPA published a dataset (https://lnkd.in/etENdW8w) highlighting how much large universities pay for subscriptions to Scopus and Web of Science. The amounts shocked me given that few PhD students and researchers I know ever use such tools. Indeed, I started a competitor to the two main indices and I think I only used them once or twice in my PhD! The other reason this is shocking is that as of June 3rd 2022 all references in CrossRef are now open from the initiative for open citations (https://i4oc.org/). From that have emerged what Aaron Tay refers to as broad databases (https://lnkd.in/eR-3PPQr). The question: why pay 250k/year for something if you can pretty much get it for free? Well, some, like Sorbonne are choosing not to (https://lnkd.in/eRXNe5pE Scite is not free but we go beyond traditional citation indices in many ways, including the citation context, the most comprehensive AI assistant and are used directly by thousands of students around the world DESPITE their university. Think about that. If you’re a leader at a University and want to learn more how we are working with other key universities, message me. Let’s shake things up, do things more efficiently and help our students and researchers.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! ?? ?? Starting the year sharing our monthly stats for the end of 2024. Look for more of JeSLIB's 2024 by the numbers soon! ?? December 2024 Stats: 7,216 article views, 1,892 article downloads, and 6 articles published! ??? Explore our most recent monthly readership map showing article views and downloads by country: https://lnkd.in/dBxKAymk Top Article 1???Persistent Identifiers for Instruments and Facilities: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities https://lnkd.in/dKUpTneP Top Article 2???Ethical considerations in utilizing artificial intelligence for analyzing the NHGRI’s History of Genomics and Human Genome Project archives https://lnkd.in/dz9AGqyt Top Article 3???Data Sharing Practices in Agricultural Research: Findings from a Systematized Review https://lnkd.in/d5hb2Sh3 Top Article 4???Academic Library Pricing Dataset for SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: 2018-2024 https://lnkd.in/e3ScFkaM Top Article 5???The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University https://lnkd.in/dH-bCGJn

Looking to catch up on your reading? Cozy up with your computer this holiday season and read the newest articles from our RDAP 2024 Special Issue! ?? ?? https://lnkd.in/ezDr_wRk We will officially announce the issue in the new year, but you can get ahead of everyone and read the amazing work from our library colleagues now. Happy reading! ?? ??

Where did the time go!? We missed highlighting our October statistics, so today is an exciting day - we're sharing our monthly stats for October and November! ?? Happy season of giving! Also, our RDAP Special Issue is publishing...soon! So make sure you're caught up on your JeSLIB content before it drops. ?? Read Volume 13, Issue 2 now: https://lnkd.in/ebQiWAZ9 ?? November 2024 Stats: 6,902 article views and 2,067 article downloads! ??? Explore our most recent monthly readership map showing article views and downloads by country: https://lnkd.in/eC6iqzBX 1?? Academic Library Pricing Dataset for SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: 2018-2024 https://lnkd.in/e3ScFkaM 2?? An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Researchers’ Data Management Practices at UVM: Integrated Findings to Develop Research Data Services https://lnkd.in/g85kf-Kz 3?? Ethical considerations in utilizing artificial intelligence for analyzing the NHGRI’s History of Genomics and Human Genome Project archives https://lnkd.in/dz9AGqyt 4?? Introduction to the Special Issue: Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives https://lnkd.in/dUtagu9g 5?? The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University https://lnkd.in/dH-bCGJn

Where did the time go!? We missed highlighting our October statistics, so today is an exciting day - we're sharing our monthly stats for October and November! ?? Happy season of giving! Also, our RDAP Special Issue is publishing...soon! So make sure you're caught up on your JeSLIB content before it drops. ?? Read Volume 13, Issue 2 now: https://lnkd.in/ebQiWAZ9 ?? October 2024 Stats: 6,498 article views and 2,874 article downloads! ??? Explore our most recent monthly readership map showing article views and downloads by country: https://lnkd.in/emH2Tnxb 1?? Academic Library Pricing Dataset for SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: 2018-2024 https://lnkd.in/e3ScFkaM 2?? The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University https://lnkd.in/dH-bCGJn 3?? An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Researchers’ Data Management Practices at UVM: Integrated Findings to Develop Research Data Services https://lnkd.in/g85kf-Kz 4?? Introduction to the Special Issue: Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives https://lnkd.in/dUtagu9g 5?? Ethical considerations in utilizing artificial intelligence for analyzing the NHGRI’s History of Genomics and Human Genome Project archives https://lnkd.in/dz9AGqyt

Happy officially fall! ?? We have a busy fall, and to kick it off we are excited our latest issue is published. ?? Read Volume 13, Issue 2 now: https://lnkd.in/ebQiWAZ9 Explore our most recent monthly readership map showing article views and downloads by country: https://lnkd.in/euZNz3BC ?? September 2024 Stats: 8,208 article views, 10,334 article downloads, 2 articles published, and 1 new issue released! Top Article 1???Academic Library Pricing Dataset for SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: 2018-2024 by Curtis Brundy and Joel B. Thornton, CPA https://lnkd.in/e3ScFkaM Top Article 2???Identifying metadata commonalities across restricted health data sources: A mixed methods study exploring how to improve the discovery of and access to restricted datasets by Kevin Read, Grant Gibson, Amber Leahey,?Lynn Peterson,?Sarah Rutley,?Julie Shi, Victoria Smith, and Kelly Stathis https://lnkd.in/evreT9U4 Top Article 3???Good Omens: New Services, Accurate Research Data by Regina Fisher Raboin https://lnkd.in/exx57Ta4 Top Article 4???Data services at the academic library: a natural history of horses and unicorns by Jeffrey Oliver, Fernando Rios, Kiriann Carini, and Chun Ly https://lnkd.in/eUq8u6pC Top Article 5???Introduction to the Special Issue: Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives by Sara Mannheimer, Doralyn Rossmann, Jason A. Clark, Yasmeen Shorish, Natalie Bond, Hannah Scates Kettler, Bonnie Sheehey, and Scott W. H. Young https://lnkd.in/dUtagu9g