Embedded librarianship in scholarly communication: perceived roles of academic librarians in Malaysian research intensive universities. In: International Conference on Libraries: “Openness Paradigm: Emerging Knowledge Ecologies, 25th - 26th August 2015, Vistana Hotel, Penang. (In Press) (2015)
Abstract
When scholarly communication is placed at the forefront of Malaysian research universities, the need for research arm to support and facilitate usage, publishing and dissemination of research output becomes crucial has and this has changed the academic libraries’ services landscape. This paper reports the results of a study that aims to understand the practices of embedded librarianship in Malaysian research universities. The paper explores the embedded librarian’s in the pre-publication and post-publication roles of the scholarly communication process. Data were collected through personal semi structured interviews with twelve respondents from five academic libraries. Findings show that the academic libraries are expected to take a greater responsibility for the usage and dissemination of publication output of research intensive universities, as the participants in general perceived that the survival of the professionalism requires the embedded librarianship practices.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Keywords: | Embedded librarianship, Librarian competencies, Library management, Librarianship, Scholarly Communication, Academic Libraries |
| Taxonomy: | By Subject > Information Management > Library and Information Management By Subject > Information Management > Library Science |
| Local Content Hub: | Subjects > Information Management |
| Depositing User: | Muhammad Shafiq Amirullah |
| Date Deposited: | 18 May 2022 04:54 |
| Last Modified: | 18 May 2022 04:54 |
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