Sholarly articles in digital forms overtook printed ones, but survey suggests increase in reading may have levelled off.
Van Noorden, R. (2014). Scientists may be reaching a peak in reading habits. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2014.14658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.14658 A 35-year trend of researchers reading ever more scholarly papers seems to be levelling off. In 2012, US scientists and social scientists estimated that they read, on average, 22 scholarly articles per month (or 264 per year). That is, statistically, not different from what they reported in an identical survey last conducted in 2005. It is the first time since the reading-habit questionnaire began in 1977 that manuscript consumption has not increased. “People have probably hit the limit of the time they have available to read articles,” says information scientist Carol Tenopir, who led the study. read more:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.14658 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Are Scientists Reading Less? Apparently, Scientists Didn’t http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/02/07/are-scientists-reading-less-apparently-scientists-didnt-read-this-paper/ Read This Paper Posted by Phil Davis ⋅ Feb 7, 2014 The headline, “Scientists reading fewer papers for first time in 35 years” was published online in the news section of Nature by the astute science journalist, Richard van Noorden. This bold claim referred to a new, but unpublished paper, by Carol Tenopir and others who reported on a 2012 survey of reading habits of US-based academics. There are very few longitudinal studies of how scientists read and interact with the scholarly literature and this periodic survey is fundamentally important in understanding how changes in scholarly publishing have changed reading behavior. read more: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/02/07/are-scientists-reading-less-apparently-scientists-didnt-read-this-paper/ STEPHEN B. ALAYON Data Bank Senior Information Assistant Library and Data Banking Services Section Training and Information Division Aquaculture Department (AQD) Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Tigbauan, Iloilo 5021 Philippines URL: http://www.seafdec.org.ph Telephone No.: 63 33 5119170 to 71 local 409 Fax No.: 63 33 5119174 Mobile Phone No.: 63 919 4506688 Email Add: [email protected], [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
