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Item Using an Entitymetric Approach to Trace Novel Chemical Compounds for Research Impact(International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, 2021-07) Hubbard, David E.This study presents an entitymetric approach (Ding et. al, 2013) to trace the use of novel chemical compounds through the literature to demonstrate additional research impact beyond traditional citations. The development of novel chemical compounds is the intellectual embodiment of the research of many chemists, and therefore worth tracing to capture a more complete picture of their impact in subsequent research. Citation-based approaches certainly capture some of the impact, though overlooks other aspects of impact. While this study focuses on chemical compounds, the concept could be more broadly extended to other material objects that contribute to advancing research (e.g., tools, software, etc.). The main purpose of this study is to outline the approach using a small set of journal articles from an individual researcher to illustrate the idea and process, as well as to determine if there are indeed occurrences where the novel chemical compounds are utilized and the original synthesis or isolation are not cited in the traditional manner.Item Representation of Libraries in Funding Acknowledgments(2019-09) Hubbard, David E.; Laddusaw, SierraAcknowledgments are an important aspect of the scholarly communication process. The importance of these paratextual components were pioneered by Cronin in the 1990s and is now an established field of study (e.g., Cronin, 1995). While an acknowledgment is a small part of a publication, it highlights the contributions of others to the research and scholarship. More recently, linguistic analysis has found recognition beyond funding in Web of Science (WoS) full-text funding acknowledgments (FAs) (Paul-Hus et al., 2017). Some researchers have begun to use library acknowledgments (LAs) in publications as a way to examine the impact of academic libraries (Finnell 2014; Hubbard et al., 2018; Scrivener, 2009). This study fills a gap by quantifying and characterizing the representation of libraries in WoS FAs. More specifically, (1) Are libraries acknowledged in journal article FAs and to what extent and context? (2) How do LAs differ across disciplines and time? and (3) How do FAs mentioning libraries differ among peer universities?Item OAK Fund Annual Report: 2016-2017(2018-09-17) Herbert, Bruce E.; McGeachin, Robert; Hubbard, David E.; Dabrowski, Anna J.The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund at Texas A&M underwrites publication charges for scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and monographs published in open access publications in order to support and encourage the shift to publishing Texas A&M’s research that is free of subscription barriers. The OAK Fund distributed funds to 194 faculty in support of publication fees for 76 articles for a total amount of funding distributed of $75,448 in the 2016-2017 academic year. We received a number of communications from TAMU faculty concerning ineligible coauthors. We have two recommendations to address these concerns: (1) amend the OAK Fund eligibility rules to allow for support of graduate student authors, and (2) amend the OAK Fund eligibility rules to allow for support of non-TAMU coauthors when a TAMU author is the lead author on the paper as evidence by authorship sequence or corresponding author.Item OAK Fund Annual Report: 2015-2016(2018-09-17) Herbert, Bruce E.; Hartnett, Eric; Hubbard, David E.; Dabrowski, Anna J.The Open Access to Knowledge Fund (OAK Fund) at Texas A&M University is a program for underwriting publication fees for scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and monographs in fully Open Access publications. The OAK Fund was established in 2013 to help fulfill Texas A&M University’s commitment to the “Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity.” The goals of OAK Fund at Texas A&M University are to support and encourage: (1) Texas A&M University faculty, research staff, and graduate students (as of fiscal year 2015/2016) who lack another source of funding to publish in Open Access venues; (2) innovative scholarly publishing that takes advantage of digital networking technologies for distribution and Open Access; and (3) greater public access to Texas A&M University research and scholarship. The OAK Fund has been available to Texas A&M University authors for three years. In the 2015/2016 fiscal year, the Vice President for Research (VPR) and the Texas A&M University Libraries committed $35,000 and $50,000 to the fund, respectively. For the first time, additional funds were allocated to support graduate student authors; the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies (OGAPS) and the VPR each committed $2,500. This document reports on outcomes of the 2015/2016 OAK Fund program.Item Chemical Pricing Information for Student Design Projects and Cost Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities(American Society for Engineering Education, 2018) Hubbard, David E.Chemical prices are an important component of cost engineering for chemical engineering students and researchers, as well as other disciplines that might be interested in chemical processes (e.g., agricultural engineering, business, economics, and industrial engineering). Students in chemical engineering senior design (or capstone) courses are especially in need of chemical pricing to demonstrate the economic feasibility of their process designs. Over the last 12 years, bulk chemical prices have become increasingly difficult to locate as information providers publishing such information have consolidated and gradually removed that content from their publications. This paper first summarizes the history of published chemical prices in the literature and then reports on a quantitative content analysis of library research guides containing chemical pricing sources at institutions with ABET-accredited chemical engineering programs. Despite the aforementioned challenges, there are some opportunities for engineering librarians. One such opportunity involves locating citations for chemical prices from a variety of sources and placing them into a searchable database that could be a community-based solution.Item Corrections in the Chemical Literature: Their Number and Nature(Taylor & Francis, 2010) Hubbard, David E.Corrections, errata, and corrigenda have played a vital role in maintaining the integrity of the scholarly journal record. Being cognizant of these corrections has always been a challenge for researchers and their management a bane to librarians. Identification of corrections has been made easier with the indexing of corrections by a few commercial databases and more recently by some publishers linking corrections to articles on their e-journal platforms. Few studies have examined the nature of these corrections, especially outside of the biomedical literature where article retraction has been the primary focus. This paper quantifies and qualifies the nature of corrections within the field of chemistry and compares the effectiveness of Scopus and Web of Science in locating corrections within scholarly journals. The study found that the correction rate averaged about 1.4 percent for the journals examined. While there were numerous types of corrections, chemical structures, omission of relevant references, and data errors were some of the most frequent types of published corrections.Item Chemical Lecture Demonstrations: An Opportunity for Engagement through Collections, Instruction, and Reference(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-11-21) Hubbard, David E.Chemical lecture demonstrations have been used as a pedagogical tool since at least the founding of chemistry as a discipline in the 1600s. This paper describes how science librarians can engage chemistry faculty and students through chemical lecture demonstrations. This paper describes chemical lecture demonstrations–including history and efficacy–and discusses how science librarians can engage chemistry faculty and students through collections, instruction, and reference in support of this pedagogy. In addition to outlining a research guide and lesson plan for chemical lecture demonstrations, this paper identifies chemical lecture demonstration monographs found in WorldCat® and analyzes the holdings of those monographs within the thirty-six-member Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) consortium.Item OAK Fund Annual Report: 2013-2015(2015-09-09) Herbert, Bruce E.; Hubbard, David E.; Hartnett, EricThe Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund at Texas A&M underwrites publication charges for scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and monographs published in open access publications. The OAK Fund was established to help fulfill Texas A&M University’s commitment to the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (http://www.oacompact.org/). The Texas A&M Libraries and the Vice President for Research committed $25,000 each to fund Open Access publications for the 2013-2015 academic years, with additional funding of $20,000 added for the second academic year. This document reports on the outcomes for the two years of the OAK Fund program.Item Characterizing Open Access Publishing at Your Institution(2014-11-03) Hubbard, David E.; Li, YuItem Geovisualization of knowledge diffusion: Visualization of bibliographic data 1995-2009(2012-03) Hubbard, David E.Bibliometrics are an important research area within information and library science, which provides valuable insights about relationships between authors, publications, and knowledge domains. This study examined the geographic aspects of literature involving the visualization of bibliographic data published by authors residing in the contiguous United States. It determined where visualization of bibliometric research occurred and explored the spatial relationships among its contributors via institutional affiliation. The study involved five aspects: (1) cited publications, (2) citing publications, (3) cited-citing publication networks, (4) co-author networks and distances, and (5) hypothesis testing of average co-author distances over time. Using 102 publications identified from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science in the field of visualization of bibliographic data, it demonstrated that spatial aspects of bibliographic data can be represented in ArcGIS as both points (institutions) and networks (cited-citing pairs). The study examined clustering of the bibliographic data based institutional affiliation (i.e., ZIP code) using a nearest neighbor analysis. A Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) script was used to create polylines for cited-citing publication and co-author networks. The networks were mapped using small multiples and animation. Average co-author distances were calculated for the co-author networks and temporal changes were explored formally using a nonparametric hypothesis test. The average nearest neighbor analysis found that both cited and citing publications involving visualization of bibliographic data were clustered. Visual inspection of the thematic maps showed clustering of both cited and citing maps concentrated in the following cities: Philadelphia, PA, Bloomington, IN, Sandia, NM, Stillwater, OK, and Tucson, AZ. Despite a statistically significant increase in the number co-authored publications on visualization of bibliographic data, there was no change in the average co-author distances from 2001-2009.Item A Citation Analysis of Atmospheric Science Publications by Faculty at Texas A&M University(American Library Association, 2013-07) Kimball, Rusty; Stephens, Jane; Hubbard, David E.; Pickett, CarmelitaA citation analysis of publications produced by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences faculty at Texas A&M University was conducted. This study included a detailed analysis of 5,082 cited publications by source, format, and age. TAMU Libraries holdings were then assessed using the works cited within the context of the 80/20 rule. The sources cited were primarily journals (91 percent) and books (5 percent). Eighty percent of the cited journal articles were fulfilled by just 24 journal titles, thus adhering to the 80/20 rule. The results were compared to those of previous citation studies in the sciences, with implications for collection management.