A Qualitative Inquiry into Scholarly Publishing between Librarians and Subject Faculty

A Qualitative Inquiry into Scholarly Publishing between Librarians and Subject Faculty

Doctoral dissertation by Michael Furlong, submitted in Spring 2022 to the College of Community Innovation and Education at the University of Central Florida, under the Educational Leadership and Higher Education program, and advised by Thomas Cox. The dissertation became available in PDF format as an open-access document in May 2023 and was translated into Chinese in the fall of 2025. This record includes both the original English version and the translated Chinese version.

Furlong, Michael

University of Central Florida

2022

Cox, Thomas D. (Advisor)

Deng, Sai (Sai Sophie) (Translator)

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Text; Dissertation

学术图书馆员与学科教师合作出版现象的定性分析

This is a phenomenological exploration of academic librarians collaboratively publishing with subject faculty. The explorative study investigates academic librarians and subject faculty who conduct research outside of librarianship. The purpose of this qualitative inquiry is an exploration of barriers subject faculty members and academic librarians encounter when conducting collaborative research. The study was performed because of an identifiable research gap and a paucity of qualitative studies related to librarian and faculty research partnerships. Much of the existing scholarship focuses on quantitative data exploring librarians’ publishing outcomes. Data collection was performed by interviewing five academic librarians and five subject faculty pairs. The study is unique in using liminality as a theoretical framework to explore collaboration between librarians and subject faculty partners. The study explores librarians who partner with subject faculty. For this reason, the study is useful and important in understanding the phenomenon of collaboration. The research could clarify and support the larger research mission at universities and colleges and improve research outcomes between interdisciplinary collaborative partners. 本研究以现象学方法探讨学术图书馆员与学科教师之间的合作出版。这项探索性研究考察了在图书馆学领域之外开展研究的学术图书馆员与学科教师。该定性研究旨在探讨学科教师和学术图书馆员在合作研究中所面临的障碍。由于该领域存在明显的研究空白，且缺乏关于图书馆员与教师研究伙伴关系的定性研究，因此开展了本研究。现有文献多侧重于通过定量数据分析图书馆员的出版成果，而本研究则通过访谈五对学术图书馆员和学科教师来收集定性数据。其独特之处在于，研究使用“阈限性”作为理论框架，探讨图书馆员与学科教师之间的合作关系。研究聚焦于与学科教师合作的图书馆员，对于理解合作这一现象具有重要意义。本研究有助于阐明并支持大学及学院更广泛的科研使命，同时提升跨学科合作伙伴之间的研究产出。

2023-05

2022

2022