Myoung C. Wilson

Collection Development in an Interdisciplinary Context.

Abstract A steady erosion of academic disciplinary boundaries and a corresponding increase in interdisciplinary research have occured. These developments present a mounting but still imperfectly understood challenge for collection development and management in academic libraries. This paper examines interdisciplinary research in an academic library context and reports on a case study.

Evolution of Social Science Information Sources in Asia: The South Korean Case.

This paper examines the increasing output of South Korean government publications in social science titles. It attributes the cause primarily to modernization and democratization combined with economic development and growth in associated social life indicators. Government sponsorship of education and research also played a critical role.

Building value-added services for institutional repositories (IRs): Modeling the Rutgers experience

Institutional repositories (IR) are largely unpopulated due to insufficient faculty experience in self-archiving (Kim, 2010), to inadequate marketing efforts to popularize the advantages of IRs (Jantz & Wilson, 2008), and to lack of faculty awareness regarding the unsustainable costs of traditional means of scholarly communication (Darnton, 2010). This paper explores a number of IR services at Rutgers that, collectively, add significant value to the university’s IR by facilitating scholarly communication and by preserving digital content. These services are based on a flexible architecture, enabling the customization of IR content for specific communities including discipline specific dissertation portals and personalized faculty portals. Related services have been developed, in part, to increase the visibility of faculty publications, including support for internal interoperability among multiple databases (for example, between an IR and a library’s OPAC) and for the export of faculty-deposited works to external databases such as PubMed Central. Future services will include collaborative spaces, science data archiving and curation, and the creation of semantic relationships that connect scholarly materials in multiple repositories. In this paper, we argue that faculty members are frequently unaware of these additional services that can simultaneously enhance the impact of their work while advancing the development of powerful new means of scholarly communication. Harnessing faculty self interest to these technological innovations is the surest mechanism for creating a bridge to the sustainable development of high quality research and a major factor in the success of institutional repositories.

Seduction by the Internet: a study of undergraduate use of Web resources

The purpose of this study was to examine upper class undergraduate student citation strategies that were used in completing their research assignments. We analyzed a total of 826 citations from seventyfive (75) political science undergraduate research papers in order to determine the types of scholarly resources that were utilized by these students. Additionally we attempted to determine the extent of student use of online sources and the persistence of these online sources over time. Findings are highlighted with suggestions for future research.