Publications

Whilst libraries have already developed new specializations as curators of research data, we ask which role the collection and processing of research information will play as a research support service in academic libraries and how this affects their task and competency profiles in the future. Based on an analysis of job advertisements for the years 2005 to 2020 and an online survey, we identify formal tasks and competency requirements as well as current task profiles and perceived areas of competency.

Scholarly publishing lives on traditioned terminology that gives meaning to subjects such as authors, inhouse editors and external guest editors, artifacts such as articles, journals, special issues, and collected editions, or practices of acquisition, selection, and review. These subjects, artifacts, and practices ground the constitution of scholarly discourse. And yet, the meaning ascribed to each of these terms shifts, blurs, or is disguised as publishing culture shifts, which becomes manifest in new digital publishing technology, new forms of publishing management, and new forms of scholarly knowledge production. As a result, we may come to over- or underestimate changes in scholarly communication based on traditioned [...]

Recent years show an increasing demand for reliable data about Early Career Researchers expressed by Higher Education Institutions as well as political decision makers. At the same time it has become more difficult for empirical higher education researchers who produce such data to get access to the field. For many of these studies the support of HEI´s is needed to systematically reach the target groups. However, HEI´s often react reluctantly to corresponding inquiries by researchers, because of the effort involved and diverging expectations regarding the studies’ thematic priorities and the presentation of results. The article outlines and assesses in this context the strategic approach of the National Academics Panel Study (Nacaps).

This paper introduces the concept of standard-relevant publications, complementary to standard-essential patents and framed by the concept of knowledge utilization. By analyzing the reference lists of the around 20,000 standards released by ISO, authors of scientific papers cited in standards who are working at German institutions were identified. The institutions include universities, independent research societies, ministerial research institutes and companies. Almost thirty interviews were conducted with the most-cited of these authors. The interviews addressed the processes by which scientific publications come to be referenced in standards, and the motivations, the barriers and the effects of this.