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and Other Continuing Resources</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> 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> </p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#002D19">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">metrics for scholarly communication are welcome. Some suggested topics include but are not limited to:</span> </p>
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<li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Repository metrics
</span> </li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Relationship of open access to citation rates of published works</span> </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> </li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Scientometric evaluation of citation rates
</span> </li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Metrics related to selection and evaluation of database and subscription packages
</span> </li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Bibliometric monitoring of periodicals published by universities to evaluate the prospects for indexing (e.g., Web of Science, Scopus)</span> </li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Library practice of metrics for selection and evaluation of the most influential serials for research publications</span> </li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="">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 style="color:windowtext">Written proposals should include the following information and are now due
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<li><span style="color:windowtext">Name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s </span></li><li><span style="color:windowtext">Proposed title of the article </span></li><li><span style="color:windowtext">Proposed abstract of the article (no more than 500 words) </span></li><li><span style="color:windowtext">Brief biographical information of all author(s) </span></li><li><span style="color:windowtext">Contact information, including email, of all author(s)<b> </b> </span></li></ul>
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<span style="">The project committee will respond to proposals by October 20, 2021 and completed articles will be due January 14, 2022. </span></p>
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Please send your proposal to Meg Mering at<b> mmering1@unl.edu </b>by <b>October 4, 2021</b> </p>
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Courtney McAllister, Associate Editor, <i>Serials Review</i></div>
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