Spring 2004

Learning Showcase: IRLS 589 - Scholarly Communication

Final Projects, Presentations, & Other Deliverables

Note: Students completed three major assignments in this course. Assignment 1 was a simple bibliometric study (productivity analysis of a journal, citation data and descriptor data collection), Assignment 2 was a study of Eprints archive, DLIST, and Assignment 3 was a choice between completing the bibliometric study begun in the first Assignment or writing an essay on the future of scholarly communication.

Follow the student name hyperlinks to their final projects. Students were given the option of pariticipating in this Showcase (for an extra 5 points). Only students who gave me permissions to exhibit their work are listed on this page. Please don't hesitate to credit appropriately, if you find the work useful.

  1. Andrew Chanse: Bibliometric Study: Remote Sensing of Environment
  2. Chen Fang: Scholarly Communication in the New Age
  3. Cynthia Rieck: Difficulties in Evaluating Scholarly Communication
  4. Chandra Curtin: Bibliometric Study of the International Journal of Remote Sensing
  5. Gary F. Daught: Bibliometric Study of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science and One of Its Top Cited Authors, Fulong Wu
  6. Marcia Francis: Bibliometric Analysis of Remote Sensing of Environment
  7. Danielle Johnson: Final Project
  8. Sarah Kaufman: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS)
  9. Erin Kurtz Marine Geodesy: An International Journal of Ocean Surveys, Mapping, and Sensing
  10. Robert Merideth: Bibliometric Analysis of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 1998-2002
  11. Shawn Nelson: Bibliometric Study of Global and Planetary Change: 1998-2002
  12. Pamela Baxter: A Combined Look at Four Current Trends: WWW, Interdisciplinarity, Collaboration, and Disintermediation and Their Affect on Evaluating the Products and Processes of Scholarly Communication
  13. Skinner: Exploring the Relationship Between Technology and Scholarly Communication: A Study on Benefits and Problems Associated with Their Union
  14. Trevor Smith: Bibliometric Analysis: Computers & Geosciences, Karl Stattegger, Keywords in GIS, and Bibliometrics/Webmetrics

Course News & Update:

For information about the course and requirements, check the Course Syllabus. Students used a variety of online tools and databases; a complete list can be found in the KS Toolbox.

Currently, I teach two courses in the new track (or specialization), Knowledge Organization. Read this article for details, http ://www.dlib.org/dlib/july02/coleman/07coleman.html. Other courses leading to the KO specialization include:

Two courses that are not a part of the KO track and that I try to teach regularly are IRLS 587, Information Seeking Behaviors (every fall), and every spring, IRLS 589, Scholarly Communication. IRLS 589 will cover the bibliometrics (including citation analysis) aspects that were a part of IRLS 601. I will also watch the development of 'document network analysis' an emerging area of research to see if this course fits into the KO specialization.
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Instructor: Anita S. Coleman
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