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    Web citations: tracking citation impact
    GARNER, JANE ; HORWOOD, LYNNE ; SULLIVAN, SHIRLEY ( 2007)
    This paper discusses the Web Citation Index (WCI) and other options for citation tracking, such as Google Scholar and Scopus. These are tools that can assist researchers to measure the quality of their papers to support the Australian Government’s Research Quality Framework (RQF) requirements. One measure of establishing quality of the research is to indicate metrics, such as the journal impact factor. Another means of establishing peer evaluation is for researchers to be aware of those papers that are citing their own work. This paper provides a commentary about different tools that are available to the research community. Librarians need to know what these tools are to be able to present a comprehensive suite of products to researchers.
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    Beyond COUNTER: partnering with Thomson Scientific to develop Journal Use Reports
    SULLIVAN, SHIRLEY ; HORWOOD, LYNNE ; ROBERTSON, SABINA ( 2007)
    Analysing journal usage is essential to collection managers. While vendors provide usage data in standardised formats, there has, until now, been no product which provides aggregated information. Now Scholarly Stats from MPS Technologies provides aggregated data with analysis reports, and Thomson Scientific is partnering with several academic libraries to develop Journal Use Reports. The Journal Use Reports product makes use of evaluation data from the Journal Citations Reports (JCR) and citation data from Web of Science, and includes data from vendors to assist collection managers understand how journals are being used by academic staff.
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    Electronic journal delivery in academic libraries
    CROTHERS, STEPHEN ; Prabhu, Margaret ; SULLIVAN, SHIRLEY (Haworth Press, 2007)
    The authors recount experiences of the variety of problems and issues involved in providing access to electronic journals in a large academic library. The paper excludes concerns emanating from decisions to subscribe to aggregations such as those produced by vendors like EBSCO, but concentrates on scholarly journals ordered individually, or as part of a scholarly or scientific society package. Despite the number of years that publishers have been offering electronic journals, pricing policies are still fluid, and the problems of access encountered in the late ‘90s still cause frustrating delays in provision of access to our academic staff and students. Questions on whether or not to use a subscription agent to assist in solving these problems are raised. There are no hard and fast rules, and no easy answers.