Reference Rot in the Repository: A Case Study of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) in an Academic Library

Massicotte, Mia; Botter, Kathleen

doi:10.6017/ital.v36i1.9598

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“…Compared with other studies (e.g. Massicotte and Botter, 2017;Sife and Bernard, 2013), these incidences are fairly low. In the former, the link rot of documents in reference lists of ETDs stood at 23% while for the later it stood at 58%.…”

Section: Non-legal Journals Utilised By South African Legal Studentscontrasting

confidence: 75%

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Scattering of journals cited in legal theses and dissertations

Bangani

Moll

2021

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The study employed bibliometrics methods to analyse the scattering of 596 journals cited in legal master’s theses and doctoral dissertations in three South African law schools from 2014 to 2018. In addition, the study included an analysis of the extent of citation of different sources and examined the effect of use of non-legal journals by law students. It was found that students used 449.2 documents on average in writing a doctoral dissertation and 110.9 references per master’s thesis. Journals received more citations than any other document formats although 16 master’s theses were completed without citing a single journal. Generally, the journals cited in legal theses and dissertations conform to Bradford’s Law but they differ in their level of conformity by law school. There was a high degree of overlaps between Zone 1 journals in the three law schools. All journals in the core lists were available in all the law schools which was attributed to the strength of collections in these schools. The results support the application of bibliometric analyses to legal master’s theses and doctoral dissertations to make collection development decisions. In making those decisions, however, law librarians would have to look beyond the Zone 1 journals of their own institution for wider access. These results also serve as a caution to law librarians to look beyond the traditional law journals in de/selecting journals, as some of the non-legal journals in this study made it to the core list of cited periodicals. Furthermore, this study points to the strength of library collections in the top law school libraries in the country.

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Section: Non-legal Journals Utilised By South African Legal Studentscontrasting

confidence: 75%

“…Internet sites were the fourth most popular source cited. According to Liebler and Liebert (2013), Massicotte and Botter (2017), Sife and Bernard (2013) and Whiteman and Frazier (2018), citation of Internet sites in case law and theses and dissertations poses its own challenges. Link rot and link drift are pervasive in Internet citations.…”

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Scattering of journals cited in legal theses and dissertations

Bangani

Moll

2021

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…The results were encoded based on the type of service, the actor, and the practice of organizing the digital library. The literature review provided evidence of research support services that have been developed in digital libraries, which are divided into six groups: scholarly publishing access, research result dissemination, research data management, research consultation, and capacity building, repository, and research tool and research guide 3,22,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44] . Research funding and collaboration services have not been developed in digital libraries.…”

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Research Support Services in Indonesian Academic Digital Libraries A Proposed Business Model and Prototype Design

Maryati

Purwandari

Santoso

et al. 2021

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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Several studies have highlighted the critical role of academic digital libraries in providing research support services and improving research performance. Although several studies have discussed the value of realizing this role, a business model that can serve as a reference in carrying out this role is not yet available. This research aimed to propose a business model and a prototype design for Indonesia’s academic digital library for research support services. A focus group discussion was conducted involving nine experts to identify the key factors. They were then mapped onto a Business Model Canvas. The key activities in the business model guided the requirements gathering for developing a prototype. The requirements were obtained from the literature reviews with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method. The requirements were validated by interviewing library managers, research unit managers, and information technology managers. This research resulted in the academic digital library Business Model Canvas and the proposed prototype design, which consisted of a mobile application for member users and a back-office application to manage services by librarians. Further research on prototype implementation testing and the development of a successful implementation model is needed to strengthen this research.

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“…Returning to the issue of content recruitment, Betz and Hall (2015) explore the process by which librarians at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta developed a user-friendly selfarchiving function in an effort to facilitate and encourage faculty use of the repository. Finally, a recent paper by Massicotte and Botter (2017) examines the incidence of reference rot in electronic dissertations found in Concordia University's institutional repository, Spectrum.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Canadian and South African Scholars’ Use of Institutional Repositories, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu

Swanepoel

Scott

2018

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Since their initial development in the early 2000s, institutional repositories (IRs) have proliferated around the globe. Due to low faculty participation, however, content recruitment has often posed a significant challenge for librarians and others promoting their use. Through the last decade, academic social networks (ASNs), such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu, have become popular among scholars as a means to communicate with each other and share their research. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with sixty scholars at six universities in Canada and South Africa to explore their views and practices pertaining to IRs and ASNs. Interviews were transcribed and coded to elucidate trends and themes in the data. The study found that few participants were active supporters of their local IRs. Lack of awareness, time limitations, and concerns regarding copyright remain some of the main obstacles to increased faculty participation. Conversely, more than half of the interviewees were active users of either ResearchGate or Academia.edu. These users valued ASNs both as a means of sharing their work and as tools facilitating connections with their colleagues internationally. Though IRs need not compete with these networks, proponents of open access repositories should be prepared to explain to faculty why they should consider having their research made accessible in a repository though they may already actively share their work through ResearchGate or Academia.edu. Significantly, both ASNs and IRs were more popular among South African than Canadian researchers. It is hoped that the results of the study will be helpful in informing the understanding and decisions of librarians and others working to develop and promote IRs and green open access more broadly.

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Reference Rot in the Repository: A Case Study of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) in an Academic Library

Abstract: This study examines ETDs deposited during the period [2011][2012][2013][2014][2015]

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

Scattering of journals cited in legal theses and dissertations

Scattering of journals cited in legal theses and dissertations

Research Support Services in Indonesian Academic Digital Libraries A Proposed Business Model and Prototype Design

Canadian and South African Scholars’ Use of Institutional Repositories, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu

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