Measuring the impact of digital heritage collections using Google Scholar

This study aimed to measure the impact of digital heritage collections by analysing the citations received in scholarly outputs. Google Scholar was used to retrieve the scholarly outputs citing Memòria Digital de Catalunya (MDC), a cooperative, open-access repository containing digitized collections...

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Autor: Borrego, Àngel (Borrego Huerta)
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/178275
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/178275
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Referències bibliogràfiques
Cercadors d'Internet
Tesis doctorals
Bibliographical citations
Web search engines
Doctoral dissertations
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spelling Measuring the impact of digital heritage collections using Google ScholarBorrego, Àngel (Borrego Huerta)Referències bibliogràfiquesCercadors d'InternetTesis doctoralsBibliographical citationsWeb search enginesDoctoral dissertationsThis study aimed to measure the impact of digital heritage collections by analysing the citations received in scholarly outputs. Google Scholar was used to retrieve the scholarly outputs citing Memòria Digital de Catalunya (MDC), a cooperative, open-access repository containing digitized collections related to Catalonia and its heritage. The number of documents citing MDC has grown steadily since the creation of the repository in 2006. Most citing documents are scholarly outputs in the form of articles, proceedings and monographs, and academic theses and dissertations. Citing documents mainly pertain to the humanities and the social sciences and are in local languages. The most cited MDC collection contains digitized ancient Catalan periodicals. The study shows that Google Scholar is a suitable tool for providing evidence of the scholarly impact of digital heritage collections. Google Scholar indexes the full-text of documents, facilitating the retrieval of citations inserted in the text or in sections that are not the final list of references. It also indexes document types, such as theses and dissertations, which contain a significant share of the citations to digital heritage collections.American Library Association2020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/178275Articles publicats en revistes (Biblioteconomia, Documentació i Comunicació Audiovisual)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v39i2.12053Information Technology and Libraries, 2020, vol. 39, num. 2https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v39i2.12053cc-by-nc (c) Borrego, Àngel (Borrego Huerta), 2020https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1782752026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Measuring the impact of digital heritage collections using Google Scholar
title Measuring the impact of digital heritage collections using Google Scholar
spellingShingle Measuring the impact of digital heritage collections using Google Scholar
Borrego, Àngel (Borrego Huerta)
Referències bibliogràfiques
Cercadors d'Internet
Tesis doctorals
Bibliographical citations
Web search engines
Doctoral dissertations
title_short Measuring the impact of digital heritage collections using Google Scholar
title_full Measuring the impact of digital heritage collections using Google Scholar
title_fullStr Measuring the impact of digital heritage collections using Google Scholar
title_full_unstemmed Measuring the impact of digital heritage collections using Google Scholar
title_sort Measuring the impact of digital heritage collections using Google Scholar
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Borrego, Àngel (Borrego Huerta)
author Borrego, Àngel (Borrego Huerta)
author_facet Borrego, Àngel (Borrego Huerta)
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Referències bibliogràfiques
Cercadors d'Internet
Tesis doctorals
Bibliographical citations
Web search engines
Doctoral dissertations
topic Referències bibliogràfiques
Cercadors d'Internet
Tesis doctorals
Bibliographical citations
Web search engines
Doctoral dissertations
description This study aimed to measure the impact of digital heritage collections by analysing the citations received in scholarly outputs. Google Scholar was used to retrieve the scholarly outputs citing Memòria Digital de Catalunya (MDC), a cooperative, open-access repository containing digitized collections related to Catalonia and its heritage. The number of documents citing MDC has grown steadily since the creation of the repository in 2006. Most citing documents are scholarly outputs in the form of articles, proceedings and monographs, and academic theses and dissertations. Citing documents mainly pertain to the humanities and the social sciences and are in local languages. The most cited MDC collection contains digitized ancient Catalan periodicals. The study shows that Google Scholar is a suitable tool for providing evidence of the scholarly impact of digital heritage collections. Google Scholar indexes the full-text of documents, facilitating the retrieval of citations inserted in the text or in sections that are not the final list of references. It also indexes document types, such as theses and dissertations, which contain a significant share of the citations to digital heritage collections.
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