Scholarly communication in library and information services the impacts of open access journals and e-journals on a changing scenario - Mukherjee, Bhaskar (Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
This book has been written with a view to understand the validity of the perceptions of Open Access (OA) e-journals in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field. Using relevant OA journals this book presents and evaluates journals qualitatively and quantitatively. Scholarly Communication in LIS records, in detail, the impact by accessing the journals' web site qualitatively and quantitatively in measuring the important elements such as articles, authors, countries, subjects and cited references. Finally, the book calculates the impact factor using synchronous and asynchronous approaches