This presentation explains different web tools/ platforms and their implication in Research and Scholarly Communication Cycle. The steps of scholarly communication cycle is like below. 1.Literature Search to find existing Research 2. Evaluation of Literature sources to select quality research literature 3. Managing/Organising documents using citation Management tools. 4. Selection of Appropriate Sources to publish the Research work. 5. Managing Research Profiles of researcher and promoting the use of altmetrics 6. Showcasing and maximizing discovery of   institutional research output by self archiving.

1. Dr. Sabitri Majhi,
Assistant Professor,
P. G. Department of Library & Information Science
Sambalpur University, Jyoti Vihar-768019 Odisha INDIA
Role of Library in promoting Research and
Scholarly Communication in Digital
Environment
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2.  ACRL scholarly communication as "the system
through which research and other scholarly writings
are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to
the scholarly community, and preserved for future
use.
 The system includes both formal means of
communication, such as publication in peer-
reviewed journals, and informal channels, such as
social networking sites, research networks etc.
 Scholarly communication is frequently defined or
depicted as a lifecycle documenting the steps
involved in the creation, publication,
dissemination and discovery of a piece of
scholarly research.
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3. Scholarly Communication
 SC
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4. Research and Scholarly Communication
Cycle
 1.Literature Search to find existing Research
 2. Evaluation of Literature sources to select quality
research literature
 3. Managing/Organising documents using citation
Management tools.
 4. Selection of Appropriate Sources to publish the
Research work.
 5. Managing Research Profiles of researcher
and promoting the use of altmetrics
 6. Showcasing and maximizing discovery
of institutional research output by self archiving.
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5. Literature Search
Training on search tools and
Techniques
Search strategy, advanced
search, refine your search
result
Single search interface
Federated search software
Web scale discovery
 Search Engines: Google, Bing,
Dogpile
 Specialized subject databases
include: ACM Digital Library,
arXiv.org, BioOne, PubMed,
 Semantic Scholar- A free artificial
Intelligence powered tool for
Navigating the scientific
Literature.
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Subject
specific
search
engines
CiteSeerX
Scirus
Primary
Search
Engines
Google, --
AltaVista,
Excite
Meta Search
Engines
Metacrwaler
Dogpile

7.  Can include
library local
collections
 Pre-harvested
 Unified index
(Configure the
Open Access
Resources in
Discovery
search )
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8. Discovery Services
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 Proprietary
 EBSCO Discovery
 Summon
 Worldcat Local (OCLC)
 Open Source
 VuFind
 Knimbus

9. Search Techniques
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 Boolean Search
 (Women OR females) AND networking
“Biomedical engineering” AND cancer NOT “ Department of” AND NOT
“ School of”
Proximity Search
 “Thomas Alva Edison" OR "Thomas A. Edison" OR "Thomas Edison”
Thomas NEAR Edison
 dogs near/3 cats
 Wildcards
Comput*- Computer, Computing, Computerized
 Searching Specific File types
Computer graphics filetype:pdf
allintitle:graphic design
Case Sensitive search Engines
AltaVista is case sensitive (upper and lower case).

10. Popularize OA resources.
 Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
 Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
 Directory of Open Access Repositories
 Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations (NDLTD)
 Shodhganga
 Pubmed
 RCLIS
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Non or underutilization of resources
 Loss of efforts, time and money
 Question Mark on efficiency of Library
system
 Ultimate loss to institution

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Managing/Organising documents
using citation Management tools

13. Managing/Organising documents using
citation Management tools
 Open access tools
 Mendeley(https://zu.libguides.com/Mendeley)
 Zotero
 Endnote web
 Other tools (Subscription needed)
 Refworks
 Endnote
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Selection of Appropriate Sources to
publish the Research work.

17. Where to Publish
How to Choose Source
 Find best
journals for
publishing
Is there any peer reviewed
process?
What is the quality of the
publication?
What is the Impact Factor
of Journal?
 Scimago Journal &
Country Rank
 Scopus Journal List
 Journal Citation
Reports -Clarivate–
(Subscription based)
 Beall’s List (Closed
2017)
 Cabell'sWhitelist-
(Subscription based)
 UGC care List
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23. Predatory Journals
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 A predatory publisher is an opportunistic publishing venue
that exploits the academic need to publish.
 Their primary goal is to make money (i.e. there will be
fees). There is no or fake peer review process
 They do not care about the quality of the work published
(i.e. no or little editing or peer-review).
 They make false claims or promises (i.e. claims of impact
factors and indexing).
• Source: https://instr.iastate.libguides.com/predatory

24. Open access publications
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 A paper published via an open access (OA) route
means that research literature is free-to-view by
anyone in the world via the internet, and hence will
get more visibility
Gold and Green Route of Open access Publishing
The green way to Open Access publishing is to publish an article in a
traditional subscription journal (not Open Access). After publication a
version of the article is also allowed to upload in an Open Access
institutional repository (open publication database).
In a gold open access journal all publications are freely accessible to
readers via open access journals. In this open access model APC or
‘article processing charges’ (APCs) are demanded from
authors/Authors institution. This variant of open access is generally
referred to as full gold open access or pure gold open access

25. Managing Research
Profiles
 Showcase your research to
world researchers
 Identify people doing research in the similar
area
 Track Citation Count
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30. Calculating H-index and i10-Index
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 h-index measures both the productivity and citation impact
of the publications of a scientist or scholar.
 The h-index is defined as the maximum value of h such that
the given author/journal has published h papers that have
each been cited at least h times.
 i10-Index = the number of publications with at least 10
citations.
 Articles No. of Citation
 1 41
 2 20
 3 18
 4 15
 5 6

31. Self archiving
Showcasing and maximizing discovery
of institutional research output by self
archiving.
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Managing Research Profiles of
researcher and promoting the use of
altmetrics
Altmetrics is the study and use of non-traditional
scholarly impact measures that are based on
activity in web-based environments.

38. Bibliometrics Vrs Altmetrics
Bibliometrics Altmetrics
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 Citation metrics’ and
‘impact factor are solely
based on ‘citation’
 Data sources are
limited: Web of Science
(ISI-Thomson Reuters),
Scopus (Elsevier) and
Google Scholar.
 Do not count research
impact of posters, data
sets and working
papers, Policy
Documents etc
 Citations may took
longer time/years to
occur.
 Altmetrics is the study of
new metrics for analyzing
and informing scholarship
based on the social web.
 Real-time, immediate
feedback on attention to
scholarly content, provides a
more coherent
understanding of research
attention.
 Give credit for research
outputs other than articles,
track attention to a broad
range of research outputs,
including articles, posters,
data sets and working
papers, code, Policy
Documents etc

39. Altmetrics
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 To complement, not replace the traditional
metrics;
 Help people understand how research is being
received and used, and by whom;
 Funding Agencies may want to see broader”
picture of engagement;
 Altmetrics data on articles includes views,
citations, save, discussions and
recommendation etc.

40. Service Providers of Altmetrics
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 Public Library of Science (PLOS): The open
access publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) was
the first organization to routinely provide Altmetrics on a
large number of scholarly articles published on its own
publishing platform.
 PLOS currently provides usage data, citations and
social web activity from 13 different data sources.
 Impactstory is an open-source website that helps
researchers explore and share the the online impact of
their research.
 We’re funded by the National Science Foundation
 Altmetrics.com is a UK based commercial
service providers of Altmetrics

41. Connecting with Researchers…
 Library play an important role to an institution’s
reputation.
 The quality, nature and extent of the library’s
collections, of its staff and the services they provide,
and of its buildings are all important.
 Successful and high-quality libraries can be a
significant factor in promoting quality research.
 The digital revolution has changed the relationship
between libraries and researchers
 Libraries must adopt strong service culture, so that
can help researchers in scholarly communication
cycle, as well as winning recognition and respect for
the library across the institution
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42. Reference
 https://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit
 https://libguides.unm.edu/c.php?g=367168&p=27
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 https://www.slideshare.net/nikeshn/presentations
 https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
 https://www.researchgate.net/
 About Altmetrics | The National ...nap.edu
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