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Knowledge production, consumption and impact: policy indicators for a changing world

Ian Rowlands (Ian Rowlands is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (ciber), Department of Information Science, City University, London, UK. E‐mail ir@soi.city.ac.uk)

Aslib Proceedings

ISSN: 0001-253X

Article publication date: 1 March 2003

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Abstract

This paper provides a high‐level overview of some of the main research themes and preoccupations that are reported in this special ciber issue of Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives. The research activities of ciber are drawn together in the quest for a better understanding of the policy implications of large‐scale knowledge production systems against the backdrop of profound technical change, uncertainty over business models, and new forms of consumer behaviour. The paper presents a series of conceptual frameworks that aim to contextualise ciber’s work in bibliometrics, cybermetrics, research evaluation, scholarly communication, user studies, publishing strategies and policy analysis. The transparency that metrics can bring to the evaluation debate and the pivotal role of human information behaviour in determining those metrics, are discussed.

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Rowlands, I. (2003), "Knowledge production, consumption and impact: policy indicators for a changing world", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 55 No. 1/2, pp. 5-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012530310462652

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