{"id":61,"date":"2012-08-21T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2012-08-21T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T02:57:00","slug":"links-of-interest-pricing-impact-factors-marketing-and-staplers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/links-of-interest-pricing-impact-factors-marketing-and-staplers\/","title":{"rendered":"Links of interest: pricing, impact factors, marketing, and staplers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acquisitions and budgets<\/strong>
2012 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Society Journals<\/a> (pdf) is out from Allen Press. “[T]he average increase in 2012 dropped, more than a full percentage point below the average, to less than 6%.” (The Consumer Price Index, according to the same figure, was less than 4%.) Much more detail, analysis and discussion is at the source<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n

The Librarian in Black writes I’m breaking up with eBooks (and you can too)<\/a> on the poor deal that current models of ebook provision are for libraries and, by extension, our customers.<\/p>\n

Marketing<\/strong>
Alison Wallbutton in #brandlibraries<\/a> ponders what branding is, how libraries are branded, and whether we want to reposition that branding. She argues that libraries are successfully branded – as “books”; it’s in the very word. But of course (segue to my own thoughts) we as librarians get twitchy about wanting to make sure that users know we’re not just<\/em> books, so we reject that outright – often without having put any thought into what we’re going to replace that branding with. Which leaves us in a position where we can’t effectively promote ourselves because we don’t have any image to put out there.<\/p>\n

Impact factors<\/strong>
Nixon, J.M. (2012). Core Journals in Library and Information Science: Developing a Methodology for Ranking LIS Journals<\/a>. C&RL<\/em>. Advance online publication.
–Outlines a methodology and resulting list of three tiers into which they’ve divided LIS journals according to “influence”. Uses a mix of expert opinions, impact factors, circulation rate, and acceptance rate and, unsurprisingly, comes up with a similar list as those derived from expert opinions or from impact factors.<\/p>\n

Probably a good measure of influence<\/em>; it doesn’t claim that quality follows. Which is good because Sick of Impact Factors<\/a> which concludes that “if you use impact factors you are statistically illiterate” and has been so widely retweeted and commented on that the author has posted a followup<\/a> summarising the long comment thread in sections: useful links; concerns about metrics; alternative metrics; and actions to take.<\/p>\n

Just for fun<\/strong>
Library Shenanigans reports on The Stapler Obituaries<\/a> – a mini-exhibition of dead staplers at an academic library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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