Aslib Proceedings: Volume 61 Issue 4

The personal curation of digital objects: A lifecycle approach

Peter Williams, Jeremy Leighton John, Ian Rowland

This paper aims to set out a coherent intellectual framework to help to better understand how people create, organise, manage, use and dispose of their personal digital archives…

The digital native – myth and reality

Neil Selwyn

The purpose of this paper is to develop and promote a realistic understanding of young people and digital technology with a view to supporting information professionals in playing…

Scientific publishing: a case study of Libyan scientists

Intesar Mahmood, Jennifer Rowley, Richard Hartley

The paper aims to report on a research project that explores the extent and scope of scientific publishing, communication, and collaboration amongst Libyan scientists.

Characteristics of open access scholarly publishing: A multidisciplinary study

Kayvan Kousha

More knowledge about open access (OA) scholarly publishing on the web would be helpful for citation data mining and the development of web‐based citation indexes. Hence, the main…

International visibility of Iranian ISI journals: A citation study

Mohammad Reza Davarpana, H. Behrouzfar

This research paper aims to investigate the internationalization and visibility of Iranian scientific journals covered by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) between…