Assessment for Resource Sharing: The Use of Bibliometrics for Collection Development in Italian Academic Libraries

Rossana Morriello will describe how the use of bibliometrics for research evaluation is causing many consequences on the behavior of researchers. The massive use of bibliometrics is changing the publishing scenario and increasing trends to concentration of scientific publications in the journals of a few big publishing companies, some of which are the producers of the citation databases used for the evaluation, too. This presentation will analyze data collected from a survey of Italian academic libraries about the use of bibliometric tools for collection development, and investigate whether libraries are contributing to these trends