Librarians work closely with faculty when they are researching. Should they get together more often to publish?
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I think it would be a great partnership to publish about trends in scholarly publications and the publication culture in general.
Yes definitely. Collaboration between Librarians and Faculty with regard to academics and research is worth carrying forward. Librarians at large are knowledge professionals ... and faculty stand out for specific specializations .... the collaborations would go a long way in refining and redefining information search techniques and strategies.
Such cooperation should be more frequent, more intense.
Undoubtedly, this will benefit both sides, as well as those who will use the results of such research.
I think it's a matter of time when both sides - academics and librarians - will be fully maturated to such collaboration :)
Such collaborations can indeed be highly useful for both sides. In our institution workshops conducted in collaboration on searching skills and efficient use of library resources proved quite useful.
There are questions, where it comes to publishing, that only librarians can answer properly, simply because they have the resources. In bibliometrics studies it is sometimes important to make a distinction between "refereed" and "non-refereed" publications, and in case of doubt (which happens quite regularly), librarians have much better means to find an answer. Also when basic metadata is missing or is ambiguous, librarians know where to look for answers. In general, collaboration between people with different background can only improve the quality of papers. I've seen many badly written papers, probably because the author never had to explain the paper's content to somebody outside his/her field. Of course, there are also people who are just unable to even form basic coherent sentences :-)
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