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Prof Charles Oppenheim
Emeritus Professor of Information Science
Interests and experience
Research interests are based around Legal issues in information
work, knowledge management, citation studies, bibliometrics, national
information policy, the electronic information and publishing industries,
ethical issues, patents information and issues to do with the digital
library and the Internet, and the economics of the electronic publishing
industries and of electronic libraries. My teaching areas cover Information
science; and electronic information management.
Current research
Rights
and Rewards, JISC/SURF knowledge bank and advocacy work.
UK Scholarly Journals
Baseline Report Project funded by Research
Information Network.
External activities
Member, DGXIII Legal Advisory Board, 1992-.
Member, JISC Scholarly Publishing Committee, 2000-. Member, JISC Committee
on IPR, 2001-.
Member, UUK/SCOP negotiating team with Copyright Licensing Agency
Identified as one of the UK's top ten library and information professionals
by the Independent on Sunday 2002. Recipient of the 2002 ALPSP Award for
services to publisher/library relations.
Member, Editorial Board for many scholarly journals.
Associate Editor, Journal of Information Science,
1999-.
Member, Library and Archives Alliance, 2000-.
Consultancy to commercial organizations, higher education funding councils,
database producers, academic institutions, libraries, information brokers,
government Departments and national libraries on market research, national
information policies, business development, copyright, licences, data
protection and database design.
JISC (IPR) Consultant.
Selected publications
- Cross, C. and Oppenheim, C., A genre analysis of scientific
abstracts, Journal of Documentation, 62(4), 2007, pp 428-446.
- Oppenheim,C., Using the h-index to rank influential
British researchers in Information Science and Librarianship, Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(21),
2007, pp 297-301.
- Bence, V. and Oppenheim, C., A comparison of journal
submissions to the UK's RAE 1996 and 2001 for UoA 43 (Business and Management
Studies), European Management Journal, 22(4), Aug 2004, pp 402-417.
- Norris, M. and Oppenheim, C., Citation counts and
the Research Assessment Exercise V: Archaeology and the 2001 RAE, Journal
of Documentation, 59(6), Dec 2003, pp 709 - 730.
- Johnson, B. and Oppenheim, C., How socially connected
are citers to those they cite?, Journal of Documentation, 2007, 63(5),
609-637.
- Oppenheim, C., Hardy, R. and Rubbert, I., Pricing
Strategies and Models for the Provision of Digitized Texts in Higher
Education, Journal of Information Science, 28(2), Jan 2002, pp 97-110.
Publications: [Details]
Contact details
Tel: +44 (0) 1509 223065
Fax: +44 (0) 1509 223053
Email: C.Oppenheim@lboro.ac.uk
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