ARL is conducting a study of new kinds of scholarly works, generally described as new-model publications. The time is ripe to look across research fields and ask what new kinds of works researchers and scholars are using.
The study has two segments and is now in its second phase. The first phase—the field study—engaged librarian volunteers in arranging structured conversations with faculty members at their institutions to learn about new model publications that are currently in use by scholars and researchers. Over 300 librarians participated in the field study phase and interviewed faculty members from across the disciplinary spectrum. They contributed records of more than 300 new kinds of scholarly works that are currently in use in a broad range of disciplines.
ARL has contracted with Ithaka to manage the field study and, in the second phase of the study, to write a final report based on an analysis of the collected works. The study report will identify patterns and trends in the evolution of these new models.
Both the study report and a database of new model resources used for the study will be made available in Fall 2008.
ARL is very grateful to all of the librarians who participated in the field study and would particularly like to thank the three institutions that pilot tested the field study materials and the other institutions that chose to participate by engaging all of their liaison librarians.
Pilot testing institutions:
University of British Columbia Libraries
Cornell University Libraries
University of Washington Libraries
Other institutional participants:
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Mervyn H. Sterne Library
Arizona State University Libraries
University of California, Irvine Libraries
Columbia University Libraries, Social Sciences Librarians
Dartmouth College Libraries
Johns Hopkins University, Welch Medical Library
University of Kansas Libraries
University of Louisville Libraries
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
University of Minnesota Libraries
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
New York University Libraries
University of Texas, Arlington Libraries
Vanderbilt University Libraries
Note: Registered Field Study Librarians can still access their resource page. You will need to use the login and password provided via e-mail when you first registered to participate. Please note that the resource database is now closed and is no longer available for data entry.
