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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">The IFLA
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and Other Continuing Resources</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"> Section is sponsoring a special issue of
<i>Serials Review</i> devoted to Metrics for Scholarly Communication. Both research papers and papers on best practices are welcome, as well as opinion papers and research-in-progress.</span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002D19;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Ongoing developments in scholarly communication have brought a need to adapt how we measure it – whether that means using traditional metrics
(e.g., bibliometrics) in new ways or pursuing other types of metrics (e.g., infometrics, altmetrics). Papers dealing with any aspect of
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">metrics for scholarly communication are welcome. Some suggested topics include but are not limited to:</span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Repository metrics
</span><o:p> </o:p></li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Relationship of open access to citation rates of published works</span><o:p> </o:p></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Libraries’ promotion of researchers’ unique identifiers and the impact on publications’ visibility and citation rates.</span><o:p> </o:p></li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Scientometric evaluation of citation rates
</span><o:p> </o:p></li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Metrics related to selection and evaluation of database and subscription packages
</span><o:p> </o:p></li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Bibliometric monitoring of periodicals published by universities to evaluate the prospects for indexing (e.g., Web of Science, Scopus)</span><o:p> </o:p></li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Library practice of metrics for selection and evaluation of the most influential serials for research publications</span><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">The fundamental goal of the papers in this special issue is that they be<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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</span></strong>to library activities and consider metrics related to scholarly communication.</span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:windowtext">Written proposals should include the following
information and are due <u>September 20, 2021</u>:<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:windowtext">Name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s
<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:windowtext">Proposed title of the article<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:windowtext">Proposed abstract of the article (no
more than 500 words)<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:windowtext">Brief biographical information of all
author(s)<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:windowtext">Contact information, including email,
of all author(s)<b> </b><o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">The project committee will respond to proposals by October
20, 2021 and completed articles will be due January 14, 2022.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Please send your proposal to Meg Mering at<b> mmering1@unl.edu
</b>by<b> September 20, 2021</b><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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Courtney McAllister, Associate Editor, <i>Serials Review</i></div>
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