Library Management Internet research register

Subject: Library Management Internet research register
Tracey Cogan (tcogan@mcb.co.uk)
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 16:55:40 -0000

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From: "Tracey Cogan" <tcogan@mcb.co.uk>
To: <arl-ejournal@arl.org>
Subject: Library Management Internet research register
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 16:55:40 -0000
Message-Id: <003c01be5771$b054a1d0$887282c1@pc0317.mcb.co.uk>

Library Management would like to offer you the opportunity of
registering details of research projects on which you or your
organization/institution are working, for publication in a searchable,
browseable on-line database from March 1999. The database will be
available to all those organisations which subscribe to the
full-service Library Management; all registrants; and members of
selected professional associations/institutes. The service will be
a comprehensive database which will be international in coverage.

Editorial objectives

The research register will report on current research worldwide, and
research completed during the past six months, which focuses on any
aspect of the management and library and information services. Research
may be linked to an academic course of study or project, be independent,
or organization-based/in-house. The register aims to maintain a sound
balance between theory and practice. Entries which report on applied
research are, therefore, particularly welcome.

Benefits of registering your research

A research register provides the scholarly community with
pre-publication information and the potential for further networking.
It provides the practitioner community with early information on
new areas for application and development. It also allows the
researcher to:

   Make sure that you are not duplicating research already under way
   Identify possible research methodologies
   Identify peers for collaborative research projects
   Identify possible sources of funding for research
   Identify types of research under way, e.g. theoretical, applied
      research, case study
   Identify areas where research is needed

The research register will build up into a resource enabling the history
of research in a particular area, to be tracked.

Why Internet?

An on-line research register has functional possibilities not achievable
with either print or CD-ROM format. It is possible for an online
facility to be "live", i.e. updated on a continuous basis, and make
hyperlinks to the location of publications which have resulted from
research.

The host journal

The journal hosting the research register is Library Management
published by MCB University Press (UK). If you are not already
familiar with it, you may like to view the journal web page at:

http://www.mcb.co.uk/cgi-bin/journal1/lm/

In order that your research is registered as soon as possible, please
complete the online questionnaire at:

http://www.mcb.co.uk/literati/research_registers/

Patricia Layzell Ward
Editor, Library Management

Posted by:
Tracey Cogan
<tcogan@mcb.co.uk>

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