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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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alt="quill pen" align="left" height="110"
width="80">A couple of weeks ago, a paper was
published on <a
href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0275">arXiv.org</a>,
hosted by the Cornell University Library,
regarding a study of how often older scholarly
papers that have been digitized and put online are
cited in new scholarly papers. The paper ("On the
shoulders of giants," first link below) presents
data indicating that citing older papers is
becoming more common recently, as more of them are
available online. The paper itself cites older
studies, including one of OhioLINK database usage,
and briefly discusses some library tools for
assessing the usefulness of older journals. You
could argue that this study supports the value of
libraries purchasing databases of journal
articles, but you should keep in mind that the
authors of the paper work for Google.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.0275v1.pdf">On
the shoulders of giants: The growing impact of
older articles</a> [pdf] (arXiv.org | Alex
Verstak et al.) "For most fields, retrospective
digitization as well as inclusion in a
broad-based search service with relevance
ranking occurred in the second half of the
period of study. As mentioned earlier, this is
also the period that saw a larger growth in the
fraction of older citations. Now that finding
and reading relevant older articles is about as
easy as finding and reading recently published
articles, significant advances aren't getting
lost on the shelves and are influencing work
worldwide for years after."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2014/11/older-papers-are-increasingly-remembered-and-cited">Older
papers are increasingly remembered-and cited</a>
(Science | John Bohannon) "For a study to mark
Google Scholar's <a
href="http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2014/10/uprising-less-prestigious-journals-publishing-greater-share-high-impact">10th
anniversary celebration</a>, its researchers
analyzed scientific papers published between
1990 and 2013. They divided the papers into nine
broad research areas and 261 subject categories.
Then they compared the publication dates of the
papers cited in all those papers. (Google
Scholar is universally acknowledged to index
more scientific documents than anyone else, but
<a
href="http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2014/09/just-how-big-google-scholar-ummm">as
usual</a>, the researchers are keeping the
size of their data set secret.)"</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-extraordinary-growing-impact-of-the-history-of-science-642022a39d67">The
extraordinary growing impact of the history of
science</a> (Medium | The Physics arXiv Blog)
"There are one or two interesting wrinkles in
the data. These trends appeared in 231 out of
261 subject areas. But many of the subject areas
that experienced a decline in older citations
were part of two broader areas: chemical and
materials sciences, and engineering.
Consequently, these broad disciplines show
almost no increase in old citations."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://selfawarepatterns.com/2014/11/13/digitization-is-increasing-the-accessibility-of-old-scientific-papers-and-of-history/">Digitization
is increasing the accessibility of old
scientific papers, and of history</a>
(SelfAwarePatterns | Mike Smith) "Will this make
history more relevant for everyone? I think it
will make history more accessible. But history
has always been relevant. I wish I could say it
will make people more likely to check history,
but I have to admit that I doubt it. Despite the
incredible amount of information available at
people's finger tips these days, I can't say
that I've noticed that, in general, they are
really any more informed than they were before
the internet."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Articles
from <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org">Ohio
Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/chc/detail?sid=c79a075c-b3ce-469d-bc91-b0519618a4ec%40sessionmgr111&vid=0&hid=118&bdata=JnNpdGU9Y2hjLWxpdmU%3d#db=cmh&AN=34784210">Mass
digitization at Yale University Library:
Exposing the treasures in our stacks.</a>
(Computers in Libraries, Oct. 2008, p10-16 |
Jennifer Weintraub and Melissa Wisner)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=d62fa5e0-6d85-48f7-8843-cd1d42b54bc3%40sessionmgr198&vid=0&hid=118&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=83583649">Learning
to share: Measuring use of a digitized
collection on Flickr and in the IR.</a>
(Information Technology & Libraries, Sept.
2012, p85-93 | Melanie Schlosser and Brian
Stamper)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=129c9505-a747-4441-b3e8-d29012d9c5f8%40sessionmgr4004&vid=0&hid=4104&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=99263271">Selection
for preservation.</a> (Library Resources
& Technical Services, Oct. 2014, p220-232
| Jennifer Hain Teper)</li>
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