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Have we Changed the Way we do Research in

Response to the Availability of Online

Information?

Paul Blowers

Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Barbara Williams

Science-Engineering Library

he!niversityof ri"ona

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Have you heard this line before?

How do I limit

my search to

full-tet only?

Could you

show me

how to find a

full-tet

article on-line?

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The Ladder of

Inference

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Purpose of our #esearch

! "amine thecitation patterns

of articles to see if

citing patterns are

affected by online

formats

! #ocument abaseline ofinformationregarding citation

patterns in oneengineeringdiscipline

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$iterature Review

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'ethodology =sed

! We eamine literature citations for the top

twenty chemical engineering Eournals over

the last ,0 years

< I3I .ournal Citation Report .CR1

! Fuantify number of citations and correlate

with online availability

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Why we selected top /0 cited Eournals

Wanted to investigate statistically significant data - needed many references

3elected Impact 4actor to classify top /0 Eournals in chemical engineering

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CAN J CHEM ENG J CHEM TECHNOL BIOTENERG FUEL J AEROSOL SCI

SEPAR SCI TECHNOL J CHEM ENG JPN

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patterns has emerged Information see7ers are limiting their research to online full tet

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only in hardcopy when other on-line subEect-related titles becomeavailable

Dhere appears to be less referencing of online Eournals that areGprohibitively epensive% implying that research published in them

may not be widely disseminated even though the materials areavailable online Dhe shift to online referencing at the eclusion of print resources

has implications in guiding how cutting edge research is developedin science and engineering

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DR="Dhere appears to be less referencing of onlineEournals that are Gprohibitively epensive%

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DR="

Dhe shift to on-line referencing at the

eclusion of print resources has

implications in guiding how cutting edgeresearch is developed in science and

engineering

'ay end up with second class scienceJengineering citi5ens that dont have

access to new information through epensive databases

3cience may ignore important wor7 published in print-only formats

Dhe fundamental functions of libraries and research support facilities will

change over time - libraries become less print oriented

Other?

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! &urchasing electronic bac7files

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What happens net?