In informetrics, journals have been used as a standard unit to analyze research impact, productivity, and scholarship. The increasing practice of interdisciplinary research challenges the effectiveness of journalbased assessments. The goal of this paper is to highlight topics as a valuable unit of analysis. A set of topic-based approaches is applied to a data set on library and information scie...

3 In his editorial for the inaugural issue of this journal in 1939, A. F. Kuhlman explained the reasons behind the decision to launch College & Research Libraries and provided a pre-emptive response to anyone who might ask whether or not the profession really needed " another library journal. " Existing " general library journals, " he argued, could not meet the needs of " college, university, ...

Reference management software is a well-known tool for scientific research work. Since the 1980s, it has been the subject of reviews and evaluations in library and information science literature. This paper presents a systematic review of published studies that evaluate reference management software with a comparative approach. The objective is to identify the types, models, and evaluation crit...

ABSTPACT The growth and proliferation .of machine-,readable data bases have created a need to consider the nature of recent developments, the impact of those' developments on library and information services, and their relationship with'the National. Commission on Library and Information Science (NCLIS) program. Data bases' many contain, information in a variety of forms, maybe produced by gove...