James Madison University JMU Scholarly Commons Libraries Libraries 4-23-2019 The iV sibility of Authority Records, Researcher Identifiers, Academic Social Networking Profiles, and Related Faculty Publications in Search Engine Results Rebecca B. French James Madison University,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/letfspubs Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation French, Rebecca B. and Fagan, Jody Condit, "The iV sibility of Authority Records, Researcher Identifiers, Academic Social Networking Profiles, and Related Faculty Publications in Search Engine Results" (2019). Libraries. 148. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/letfspubs/148 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at JMU Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Libraries by an authorized administrator of JMU Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The visibility of authority records, researcher identifiers, academic social networking profiles, and related faculty publications in search engine results Rebecca B. French and Jody Condit Fagan James Madison University Author Note JMU Libraries, Carrier Library 1704, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807
[email protected] [email protected] This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Journal of Web Librarianship on April 23, 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/19322909.2019.1591324. 1 Abstract Information about faculty and their publications can be found in library databases such as the Library of Congress Name Authority File, VIAF, WorldCat, and institutional repositories; in identifier registries like ORCID and ISNI; and on academic social networking sites like Academia, Google Scholar, and ResearchGate, but the way search engines use such identifiers and profiles is unclear.