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“I DIDN’T USE THE LIBRARY, I GOOGLED IT”: USING CITATION ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY THE USE OF LIBRARY RESOURCES Simona Juzėnienė, PhD Vincas Grigas, PhD Vilnius university library PREHISTORY. THIS IS ARŪNAS AND HIS DISSERTATION... UNOFFICIAL RESEARCH QUESTION: CAN IT BE TRUE, THAT THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY AND IT’S RESOURCES ARE WORTHLESS FOR PHD STUDENTS? Small pilot research: • Analysis of bibliographical references lists; • 4 librarians, 4 science fields (Humanities is still in process); • 12 randomly chosen dissertations, defended in 2014; • Analysis scheme and instruction. DATA GATHERING EXAMPLE RESULTS (1) Number of dissertations analysed Humanities Social Sciences Physical Sciences Biomedical Sciences Technological Sciences In total: 0 3 3 3 Total no. in 2014 16 39 34 35 3 12 6 130 Average number of information resources in dissertations 250 200 150 100 50 0 Average Social Sciences 212 Physical Sciences 145 Biomedical Sciences 223 Technologica l Sciences 116 RESULTS (2). TYPES OF INFORMATION RESOURCES Social Sciences Other 40% Printed books 18% Journal articles 37% Electronic books 5% RESULTS (3). TYPES OF INFORMATION RESOURCES Physical Sciences Other 18% Printed books 23% Journal articles 58% Electronic books 1% RESULTS (4). TYPES OF INFORMATION RESOURCES Biomedical Sciences Printed books 1% Other 5% Electronic books 0% Journal articles 94% RESULTS (5). TYPES OF INFORMATION RESOURCES Technological Sciences Printed books 18% Electronic books 1% Other 49% Journal articles 32% RESULTS (6). TYPES OF INFORMATION RESOURCES Comments: • Physical sciences need more printed books than social sciences? • Why are electronic books so unpopular? • Category “other” is quite big, so we should pay more attention to various conference proceedings, reports, legal documents, even maps.. • Biomedical scientists do not need books, they need lots of journals. RESULTS (7). WAYS TO GET INFORMATION RESOURCES 1200 1000 800 Unknown ways 600 Open Access VUL subscribed databases VUL e-catalogue 400 200 0 Social S. Physical S. Biomedical S. Technological S. RESULTS (8). WAYS TO GET INFORMATION RESOURCES Comments: • Open Access was checked via Sherpa/Romeo. Either the journal was listed in DOAJ or a paid OA option was available, no matter green, yellow or blue archiving policies – it was considered as an open access journal. And there was at least a little possibility to find needed articles somewhere online. RESULTS (9). CORE JOURNALS. WEB OF SCIENCE JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS Biomedical Sciences Journal of Pineal Research Radiology American Journal of Roentgenology Journal of Neuroimmunology European Radiology European Journal of Radiology FASEB Journal Science Gut Journal of Biological Chemistry The Journal of Immunology The New England Journal of Medicine Times cited 46 19 13 10 10 9 8 8 8 7 7 7 WoS Quartile Impact Factor Q1 8 Q1 6.214 Q2 2.744 Q2 2.786 Q1 4.338 Q2 2.160 Q1 5.480 Q1 31.477 Q1 13.319 Q1 4.600 Q1 5.362 Q1 54.420 RESULTS (10). CORE JOURNALS. WEB OF SCIENCE JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS Technological Sciences Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Data & Knowledge Engineering Expert Systems with Applications International Journal of HumanComputer Studies Electronics and Electrical Engineering Times cited 6 5 4 4 3 Social Sciences Times cited Journal of Knowledge Management 33 Informacijos mokslai 13 European Journal of Innovation Management 9 International Migration 9 Harvard Business Review 5 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 5 WoS Quartile Impact Factor Q1 1.743 Q2 1.489 Q1 1.965 Q2 Q4 1.165 0.445 WoS Quartile Impact Factor Q2 1.257 Q3 Q2 Q2 0.839 1.831 0.933 RESULTS (11). CORE JOURNALS. WEB OF SCIENCE JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS Physical Sciences Times cited WoS Quartile Impact Factor Nucleic Acids Research 22 Q1 8.808 Journal of Virology 14 Q1 4.648 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 12 of the USA Q1 9.809 Journal of Biological Chemistry 11 Q1 4.600 Bioinformatics 7 Q1 4.621 Journal of Molecular Biology 7 Q2 3.959 Boreas 6 Q2 2.383 Quaternary Science Reviews 6 Q1 4.571 Sedimentology 6 Q1 2.741 CONCLUSIONS. DISCUSSION. • Citation analysis helps to identify usage of physical and electronic library resources among PhD students. • When doing analysis, a very specific instruction has to be made for librarians who collect data, so they understand everything the same. • Such research can show the need for evidence based information literacy or scientometrics courses for students from different science fields. CONCLUSIONS. DISCUSSION. (2) • Academic libraries have to rethink resource collection and development. Maybe all that we need are only textbooks for BA and MA students? • Open access articles and other freely available resources online are the core resources for dissertations. How can academic libraries still remain important for PhD students? • Can open access be seen as a threat for academic libraries and their information resources provider‘s role?