The Association of Research Libraries has just issued a report studying the many new kinds of works that researchers and scholars are using. Last summer twenty U-MN librarians interviewed faculty members across a range of disciplines to inform the report. The full report and a searchable database of the collected examples are linked from ARL's press release. An excerpt:
The study had two segments: the first phase—the field study—engaged librarian volunteers in arranging structured conversations with faculty members at their institutions to learn about new model publications that are currently in use by scholars and researchers, while the second phase consisted of interviews with selected managers of new model works and the preparation of a study report. ARL contracted with Ithaka to manage the field study and to write the final report based on analysis of the collected works.
Both the study report and a searchable collection of new model resources gathered during the study are now freely available. The report provides a detailed picture of the patterns and trends that have emerged to date. Emergent genres, disciplinary patterns, and peer review practices are all described. The accompanying searchable collection offers 206 examples of new model works along with descriptive information gathered for the study.
Over 300 librarians participated in the field study phase and interviewed hundreds of faculty members from across the disciplinary spectrum. They contributed records of more than 300 new kinds of scholarly works that are currently in use in a broad range of disciplines.
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