Authorship in Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory

Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 395-419

  Nisonger, Thomas E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship; Library Acquisitions: Practice Theory; Library and Information Science Journals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347885465     PISSN: 03646408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0364-6408(96)00080-4     Document Type: Article

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78. Schrader, "A Bibliometric Study," p. 291.
79. Williamson and Williamson, "Multiple Authorship," p. 14.
80. Stephenson, "The American Archivist," p. 550.
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96. Dimitroff, "Research for Special Libraries," p. 258. The percentage is calculated from Dimitroff's data.
97. Swigger, "Production of Scholarly Articles," p. 107.
98. Mularski, "Institutional Affiliations of Authors," p. 182.
99. Zamora and Adamson, "Authorship Characteristics," p. 102, 106. They defined academic librarians working in a specific subject collection as special librarians.
100. Raptis, "Authorship Characteristics in Five," p. 41.
101. Buttlar, "Analyzing the Library Periodical Literature," p. 41.
102. Chapman and Pike, "Public Librarians as Authors," p. 53. Percentage calculated from their raw data.
103. Williamson, "Authorship Characteristics," p. 51.
104. Buttlar, "Profiling Review Writers," p. 224. To facilitate comparison with other studies, the percentages have been recalculated from her raw data after removing the "undetermined" category.
105. The percentages do not add to 100 because Karrenbrock reported gender could not be determined for 1.8% of the authors. Most other studies, including this one, excluded undetermined cases before calculating the male/female percentages.
106. Zamora and Adamson, "Authorship Characteristics," p. 104.
107. Steer, "CLJ Authors Are Studied," p. 152.
108. Stephenson, "The American Archivist," p. 551.
109. Zamora and Adamson, "Authorship Characteristics," p. 102.
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111. Zamora and Adamson, "Authorship Characteristics," p. 104.
112. Buttlar, "Analyzing the Library Periodical Literature," p. 44.
113. Zamora and Adamson, "Authorship Characteristics," p. 105.
114. Buttlar, "Analyzing the Library Periodical Literature," p. 38.
115. Chapman and Pike, "Public Librarians as Authors," p. 54. Combined percentage calculated from their raw data. They reported a non-U.S. author rate of 17% for eight national journals and 7% for two public library oriented periodicals.
116. Williamson, "Authorship Characteristics," p. 48.
117. Olsgaard and Olsgaard, "Authorship in Five Library Periodicals," p. 52.
118. Tate, "For Our 25th Anniversary . . .," p. 5.
119. Stephenson, The American Archivist, p. 554. Because a bar chart was used the precise percentage can not be ascertained.
120. Dimitroff, "Research for Special Libraries," p. 258.
121. Bottle and Efthimiadis, "Library and Information Science Literature," p. 114.
122. Raptis, "Authorship Characteristics in Five," p. 43.
123. Raptis, "Authorship Characteristics in Five," p. 44.
124. Schrader, "A Bibliometric Study," p. 292.
125. Zamora and Adamson, "Authorship Characteristics," p. 104.
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127. Buttlar, "Analyzing the Library Periodical Literature," p. 44-45.
128. Adamson and Zamora, "Publishing in Library Science Journals," p. 238-239.