John Metcalfe Memorial Fund - Research Grants

2007

JMMF Project 07-02 - Scholarly communication: A case study of LIS faculty publications.

Description:

To investigate the scholarly communication of Australian LIS academic staff with the purpose of analysing its nature and content with regard to change over time in response to technological change and trends in higher education. This will be reviewed against the international literature in LIS and the literature on scholarly communication.

Outcome:

• Willard, P.; Kenna, M.; Wilson, C.S. & White, H.D. (2007) Publication by Australian LIS academics and practitioners: A preliminary investigation. Paper presented at RAILS4, Research Applications in Information and Library Studies, November, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.

JMMF Project 07-03 - Impact of Scientific Output on the Web: Analysis of Links to Australian Universities.

Description:

To investigate the visibility of Australian universities on the Web by analysing the number of in-links to each Australian university's homepage. The investigation will identify differences in the way Australian universities use the Web as platforms to promote research activities. It will also analyse the extent that universities in the UK and the US are aware of work undertaken by Australian universities.

JMMF Project 07-04 -Investigating Enablers of Knowledge Sharing in Academic Libraries.

Description:

The broad aim of this study is to investigate and evaluate major knowledge management enablers for today's academic libraries under various organisational cultures. More specifically, during Phase 1 of this project a set of enablers and barriers of successful KM implementation in organisations will be identified.

JMMF Project 07-05 - A New Metric for Measuring the Impact of Works by Australian Researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: A Test of LibCitation.

Description:

To provide a 'proof-of-concept' test within an Australian context whether, and to what extent, Professor Howard D. White's proposed "LibCitation" measure will provide a usable method for measuring impact for disciplines in AH&SSc. This project is being conducted by BIRG members in collaboration with Professor White.

2006

JMMF Project 06-01 - Education in Information Fields in Australia: Views from Academia, Practice and Industry.

Description:

To identify changes in information fields as seen by information professionals with a focus on reforms and curriculum changes and comprehending what employers of IS/IT/IM graduates require of their current and future employees.

Outcome:

• Yu, H. & Davis, M. (2007). The Case for Curriculum Reform in Australian IM & LIS Education: Part 1, Technology and Digitization as Drivers. Information Research (an International Electronic Journal), Vol.12, No. 4, October.

• Davis, M. & Yu, H. (2007). The case for curriculum reform in Australian IM and LIS education. Part 1: Technology and digitisation as drivers. IN: Proceedings, 6th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science "Featuring the Future". Sweden, Boras, August, 2007, pp.17-32.

• Davis, M. (2006). Towards a re-conceptualisation of education for information management: A reprise on John Metcalfe's work on education for the information management profession. Paper presented at RAILS3, Research Applications in Information and Library Studies, Perth, Western Australia, 22-23 September, 2006, Curtin University of Technology.

JMMF Project 06-04 - Subject Themes and Intellectual Structure in Information Systems Research: A Journal CoCitation Study.

Description:

Outcomes:

• Marion, L.S.; Wilson, C.S.; & Davis, M. (2007). Defining the intellectual structure of information systems through journal usage. [in preparation].

• Marion, L.S.; Wilson, C.S.; & Davis, M. (2005). Intellectual structure and subject themes in information systems research: A journal cocitation study. IN: Proceedings of the 68th ASIST Annual, "Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together", October 28-November 2, 2005, Charlotte, North Carolina. 

JMMF Project 06-05 - Online survey of Journal Reading In Universities by Academics and Students: A Comparison of U.S. and Australian Universities

Description:

Outcomes:

• Wilson, C.S. & Tenopir, C. (2007). Evaluation of an academic library's research collection through information use: Local citation analysis, publishing and readership patterns. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology [in press].

JMMF Project 06-07 - Investigating Methods to Enhance Informetric Research Analysis: Complex Data Management using ORDBMS.

Description:

This is a multi-staged project with a focus on exploration of Object Relational Database Management Systems (ORDBMS) for storage and analysis of data relevant to informetric research projects.

Outcomes:

• Yu, H.; Davis, M.; Wilson, C.S.; & Cole, F. (2007) Object-Relational Data Modelling for Informetric Databases, Information Processing & Management [in preparation]

• Yu, H.; Wilson, C.S.; Davis, M.; & Cole, F. (2007). Complex Data Modelling for Informetrics Research. Poster paper presented at (and published in) D. Torres-Salinas & Henk Moed eds. ISSI 2007, 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2007, pp.962-963.

• Yu, H.; Davis, M.; Wilson, C.S.; & Yue, W. (2007). An XML-enabled Object-Relational Database for Informetrics Research. [in preparation].

JMMF Project 06-08 - Information Systems Employment Market in Australia.

Description:

To understand what employers of IS graduates require of their current and future employees and to investigate the diversity of employment roles for which they need graduates trained. 

Outcomes:

• Kennan, M.A.; Willard, P.; & Wilson, C.S. (2006). What do they want? A study of changing employer expectations of information professionals. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, Vol.37, No.1, pp.17-37.
• Kennan, M.A.; Cole, F.; Willard, P. & Wilson, C.S. (2005). Changes in the workplace: transformation of the information professional. Paper presented at the 2nd RAILS Research Applications in Information and Library Studies, Seminar 16-17 September, 2005, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

• Kennan, M.A.; Willard, P.; & Wilson, C.S. (2005). What do they want? A study of employer expectations of information professionals. IN: The AGLIN (Australian Government Libraries Information Network) Annual Conference - The Innovation Information Professional, July 12-13 2005, Canberra.

JMMF Project 06-10 - Analysis of Reuters Newsfeed.

Description:

To engage in a multi-aspectual analysis, de-construction, and re-construction of news stories from Reuters newsfeed as an adjunct project to SISTM's Ad-hoc Data Grid Environment (ADAGE) project (PI: A/Prof Fethi Rabhi). The provision of high-volume news services is a major design case within the ADAGE project. Both these projects offer the opportunity to examine in detail how "news", as a form of "data", is understood and managed by information systems designers and practitioners, as well as other practice communities (e.g. journalists, securities industry personnel & researchers).

JMMF Project 06-11 - Visit of Professor Howard D. White

Description:

To present several public and internal seminars on research performance and evaluation to the UNSW academic community and on collection development to the UNSW library community.

Outcomes:

• During White's visit in August 2007, three well-attended public seminars on the measurement of productivity and impact of research in light of the requirements for Australia's newly developed Research Quality Framework (RQF). White focussed specifically on how to devise and implement impact measures for scholars in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

• White's visit had led to the testing of his notion of LibCitation as a measure for scholarly impact in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (see JMMF Project 07-05 above).

2005

JMMF Project 05-01 - Changing workplace demands: What job ads can tell us?

Description:

To analyse job ads as a relatively accessible indicator of the knowledge, skills and competencies required of librarians by employers, and then analyse it within a framework of professional jurisdiction to speculate on possible implications for the future of LIS/IM education.

Outcomes:

• Kennan, M.A.; Willard, P.; Cole, F.; & Wilson, C.S. (2007). Australian and US Academic Library Jobs: A Comparison. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, Vol.38, No.2.

• Kennan, M.A.; Cole, F.; Willard, P.; Wilson, C.S.; & Marion, L. (2006). Changing workplace demands: What job ads tell us. Aslib Proceedings. Vol.58, No.3, pp.179-196.

• Kennan, M.A.; Cole, F.; Willard, P.; & Wilson, C.S. (2006) Changes in the workplace: Transformation of the information professional. IN: Proceedings of the 2nd Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS2) Seminar September, 2005. Lloyd, A. & Pymm, B. eds. Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga: pp. 125-140 (ISBN: 978187693 819 2).

JMMF Project 05-02 - Australian and US Academic Library Jobs: A Comparison.

Description:

To investigate the similarities and differences of Australian and US academic library jobs to understand skills and competencies required in LIS education into the future. This is analysis of a subset of the data from Project 05-01 above.

Outcomes:

• Marion, L.S.; Kenna, M.A.; Willard, P.; & Wilson, C.S. (2005). A tale of two markets: Employer expectations of information professionals in Australia and the United States of America. IN: World Library and Informatin Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council, August 14-18, 2005, Oslo, Norway.

FRGP (Faculty Research Grants Program) - 2003-2005.

Visualizing Intellectual Structures: Innovative Techniques for Mapping Subject Domains using Ophthalmology as the First Case with special emphasis on Australia.

Outcomes:

• Davis, M. & Wilson, C.S. (2003). Research contributions in Ophthalmology: Australia's productivity. Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. Vol.31, No.4, pp.286-293.

•  Wilson, C.S. & Chen, C. (2003). Visualizing the ophthalmology literature: Preliminary results. SIG-MET, Social Network Analysis and Citation Network Analysis: Complementary Approaches to the Study of Scientific Communication. IN: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Information Science and Technology, Humanizing Information Technology: From Ideas to Bits and Back, ed by R.J. Todd, Long Beach, CA, October 2003, Medford, NJ: Information Today, pp.486-487.

ISI-Thomson Scientific Inc, Philadelphia US and Singapore Office

Grant for 8th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI-2001) to increase participation of research scholars from developing countries and specifically from the Asian Region.

Eugene Garfield Foundation, Philadelphia, US

Grant to support the research component of the 8th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI-2001).

ARC Grants

2001-2002 - Scientometric and Sociometric Analysis of Australian Steel Production.

Description:

Identifying Current Contributions and Future Developments in Ferrous Metallurgy.

Outcome:

• Wilson, C.S.; Davis, M.; Tseitina, I.; & Robert M. Hayes (2003). The Australian steel industry and its use of the information sector of the Australian economy. BIRG Working Paper No.2. University of New South Wales, School of Information Systems, Technology and Management. October 2003. ISSN:1448-4439.

2000-2001 - Scholarly Communication Processes in the Domain of the Vision Sciences.

Outcomes:

• Davis, M. & Wilson, C.S. (2001). Vision sciences as a collaborative enterprise: issues of multidisciplinary and work-interest space. IN: Proceedings of the Second Berlin Workshop on Scientometrics and Informetrics. Collaboration in Science and in Technology. September 1-3, 2000 at Free University, Berlin. Edited by F. Havemann; R. Wagner-Dobler & H. Kretschmer. Berlin: Gesellschaft fur Wissenschaftsforshung. pp.47-61.
• Davis, M. & Wilson, C.S. (2001). Elite Researchers in Ophthalmology: Aspects of publishing strategies, collaboration and multi-disciplinarity. Scientometrics, Vol.53, No.3, pp.395-410.

• Davis, M. & Wilson C. S. (2000). 'Vision Sciences as a collaborative enterprise: issues of multidisciplinarity and work-interest space'. IN: Proceedings of the 2nd Berlin Workshop on Scientometrics and Informetrics / Collaboration in Science and Technology, September 1-4th. Freie Universität Berlin.

• Davis, M.; Wilson, C.S.; & Hood, W.W. (2000). 'Research contributions to the vision sciences, 1991-95: Comparison of productivity in Ophthalmology and Optics among six comparable nations'. IN: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Information Science, "Information Management in the New Millennium", 27-29 January 2000. New Delhi, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), 2000.

1993 - Aspects of research achievement in Australian universities - a bibliometric study.

Faculty (FCE, UNSW) Special Grants - 1998-1999.

The Vision Sciences Project - Bibliometric Analysis and Mapping of the Fields of Ophthalmology and Optics.

The Vision Sciences Project - Scholarly Communication among Researchers in NSW

Informetric Analysis of Faculties of Commerce and Economics Schools and Departments in universities in NSW.

Outcomes:

• Davis, M.; Wilson, C.S.; & Hood, W.W. (1999). Vision science: a bibliometric analysis of an interdisciplinary and pluri-disciplinary domain. IN: Marcias-Chapula, C.A. ed., Seventh Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics: Proceedings - ISSI 1999, Colima, Mexico: Universidad de Colima, pp.111-126.

• Davis, M.; Wilson, C.S.; & Hood, W.W. (1999). Ophthalmology and Optics: an Informetric study of Australia's contribution to fields in the Vision Science Domain, 1991-95. Scientometrics, Vol.46, No.3, pp.399-416.

Cancer Institute NSW (2007)

Bibliometric project to assess the productivity and impact of cancer research in Australia through its cancer research literature.

Outcomes:

• Wilson, C.S.; Lo, M.; & Böll, S. (2007) Systematic review of the quantity and quality of cancer research publications in New South Wales, 1999 to 2006. Report submitted to the Cancer Institute NSW, November 2007.

New South Wales Cancer Council (1999-2000).

Bibliometric project to assess the output of cancer research publications of New South Wales from 1944 to 1998.

Outcomes:

• Wilson, C.S. & Pittman, S. (2000) Assessment of outputs: quantity and quality of cancer research publications in New South Wales from 1994-1998. Report submitted to the NSW Cancer Research Committee, March 2000.

• Wilson, C.S. (2005). General analyses of cancer research publications in Australian states using the Science and Social Science Citation Indexes. IN: 10th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI, 2005, July 24-28, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden. Stockholm: Karolinska University Press, Vol.1, pp.168-176. (See Conference Program at http://www.umu.se/inforsk/ISSI2005/ISSI2005Program.htm - last accessed October 2007)

National Clearinghouse on Domestic and Family Violence (1999-2003).

Web-based database on Domestic Violence for worldwide use and for Bibliometric / Informetric analyses.