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Shu, Fei; Mongeon, Phillippe – Education for Information, 2016
The iSchool movement is a controversial topic within the library and information science (LIS) community. While some argue that the movement isolates small size schools and splits the LIS community others insist it will broaden the field of LIS and form an open and boundaryless iField. This study investigates the evolution of the iSchool movement…
Descriptors: Library Schools, Evolution, Educational Change, Trend Analysis
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Shu, Fei; Mongeon, Philippe; Haustein, Stefanie; Siler, Kyle; Alperin, Juan Pablo; Larivière, Vincent – College & Research Libraries, 2018
Commercial scholarly publishers promote and sell bundles of journals--known as big deals--that provide access to entire collections rather than individual journals. Following this new model, size of serial collections in academic libraries increased almost fivefold from 1986 to 2011. Using data on library subscriptions and references made for a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Periodicals, Research Libraries