Open Access Metadata, Catalogers, and Vendors: The Future of Cataloging Records

Flynn, Emily

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2012.11.010

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“…They conclude that, while these stakeholders are codependent, the existing channels for resolving problem metadata are limited. Flynn (2013) analyzes the relationships among librarians, publishers, and service providers in terms of how each would stand to benefit from open access metadata, defined as "bibliographic information describing library content that is openly licensed and freely accessible" (p. 29). Meanwhile, Mercer and Dyas-Correia (2011) suggest ways that newly-formed journals could benefit from working with librarians.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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A literature review of scholarly communications metadata

Gregg¹,

Erdmann²,

Paglione³

et al. 2019

RIO

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The purpose of this literature review is to identify the challenges, opportunities, and gaps in knowledge with regard to the use of metadata in scholarly communications. This paper compiles and interprets literature in sections based on the professional groups, or stakeholders, within scholarly communications metadata: researchers, funders, publishers, librarians, service providers, and data curators. It then ends with a 'bird's eye view' of the metadata supply chain which presents the network of relationships and interdependencies between stakeholders. This paper seeks to lay the groundwork for new approaches to present problems in scholarly communications metadata. KeywordsScholarly communication, metadata, metadata supply chain, research data management, Metadata 2020 ‡ § | ¶ # This review assumes at least a basic knowledge of how metadata records are created, shared, and used. Nevertheless, two core terms are defined below to frame the discussion.Scholarly communication is the process by which research is conducted, transformed into content, and distributed to a wider audience. The majority of the resources featured in this literature review are concerned with the physical and life sciences. The implications of this review, however, can be extended in many cases to the social sciences and humanities which have the same need to describe and share scholarly works. The majority of resources also treat the published journal article as the primary form of scholarly output, though emerging literature increasingly focuses on research data and the research process as opposed to finalized articles.Metadata in this context is the information that accompanies the various stages and outputs of research. Common to most scholarly research are metadata elements such as author, date, title, subject, language, and standard identifier. In the case of research data, metadata describes specialized aspects such as the geographic location where the data was collected, the name and identifier of the research funder, the institutional affiliation of the researchers, contributors such as editors and data curators, or the number of the grant award funding the research (DataCite Metadata Working Group 2016). Metadata for journal article includes identifiers such as the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN, the numeric identifier assigned to journals), volume, issue, page numbers, or epub identifier. In the case of monographs (books), specialized metadata includes the International Standard Book Number (ISBN), title, page number, and author of individual chapters. These and other metadata elements are essential for disseminating research outputs. Metadata gives proper credit to research funders, ensures that research can be reproduced, facilitates others in finding research, allows authors to build a portfolio, and measures the scholarly impact of an article. StakeholdersPublishers, service providers, researchers, funders, librarians, and data curators are the stakeholders of metadata in scholarly communication. The relationships ...

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A literature review of scholarly communications metadata

Gregg¹,

Erdmann²,

Paglione³

et al. 2019

RIO

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“…Its stakeholders include "researchers, funders, publishers, librarians, systems and service providers, and data curators" (Gregg et al, 2019, p. 1). Flynn (2013) pointed out that of all the stakeholders, the calls to improve metadata quality frequently fall on publishers and expect them to sort out the product information provided to vendors to create higher quality records, thus benefiting individuals who use the services. The flawed semi-automated metadata collection techniques used by vendors and publishers could omit the core information of academic products (Flynn, 2013).…”

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“…Flynn (2013) pointed out that of all the stakeholders, the calls to improve metadata quality frequently fall on publishers and expect them to sort out the product information provided to vendors to create higher quality records, thus benefiting individuals who use the services. The flawed semi-automated metadata collection techniques used by vendors and publishers could omit the core information of academic products (Flynn, 2013). For instance, Bull and Schultz (2018) revealed that the lack of ISSNs as standard metadata causes librarians to be unable to determine the status of access restrictions.…”

Section: Indexingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A grey zone for bibliometrics: publications indexed in Web of Science as anonymous

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Publications without authorship information have been indexed as anonymous in the Web of Science database over the years. However, discussions on this subject have not been sufficiently addressed in the scholarly literature. Since bibliometrics studies are widely used for bibliometricians, scientific disciplines, science policy, and management, missing significant data as authorship metadata characterizes a gray zone that directly impacts these three components, and by extension, for bibliometrics and scientometrics. With a data collection performed at Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC), 1,420,842 documents under "anonymous" authorship from 1900 to 2021 were retrieved, which accounted for 1.5% of the total documents indexed in the WoSCC. The publication data such as yearly growth of research publications, document type, language, productive research areas, and other bibliometric indicators were analyzed. The findings showed that in absolute numbers, a considerable growth of anonymous publications between 1996 and 2009, and there was a downward trend after that. However, this increase has not been proportional to the growth in the total number of publications indexed in the WoSCC. Articles, editorial materials, and news items were the top three document types among the WoSCC-indexed publications as anonymous. This study also finds two main scenarios of indexing publications as anonymous. The first is associated with the historical context of scholarly communication and practices that persist. The second is characterized by indexing persistent problems. This study suggests minimizing the error in databases, enabling an error-free indexing system and accurate bibliometrics studies.

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“…Flynn calls for publishers to provide clean metadata to vendors, who can then create high-quality metadata that can be provided to their customers. 50 Article-level metadata are the subject of a new NISO initiative, developing standard language to denote an article's open access status. 51 Looking past RDA, linked data are heralded as the new future of cataloging.…”

Section: Bibliographic Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Promise of the Future: A Review of the Serials Literature, 2012–13

Sullenger¹

2016

LRTS

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Open Access Metadata, Catalogers, and Vendors: The Future of Cataloging Records

Cited by 10 publications

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A literature review of scholarly communications metadata

A literature review of scholarly communications metadata

A grey zone for bibliometrics: publications indexed in Web of Science as anonymous

The Promise of the Future: A Review of the Serials Literature, 2012–13

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