Tuesday Times

January 5, 2021

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Congratulations, Tony and Luti!
Tony Stankus is once again named the world’s most published Scientific or Medical Librarian.

In an upcoming article by Selenay Aytac (Long Island University) and Clara Tran (Stony Brook University to be published in the journal Science & Technology Libraries online at the end of this month and in print in March, it has been reported that much as he was in from 2011-2015, the U of A’s Health Sciences Librarian Tony Stankus remains the world’s most published scientific or medical librarian 2016-2019.

The only significant difference is that while he was single paper above second place last time, he has now published twice as many papers as the authors tied for second, Qingkui Xi of Nanjing Agricultural University and Kevin Read of NYU’s Langone Medical Center. 

Luti Salisbury, our Chemistry and Biochemistry Librarian, tied for 4th place ahead of over 1,000 other authors and coauthors from 34 countries.

The U of A did drop to second place among universities worldwide surpassed by last time’s runner up, the University of Florida, and tied with the University of Tennessee, but ahead of such notable schools as Yale, Caltech,  and NYU.

Congratulations, Elaine!
Elaine Thornton has just been elected to the SPARC Steering Committee for a three-year term representing non-ARL institutions: https://sparcopen.org/people/#steer and https://sparcopen.org/people/elaine-thornton-2/

SPARC (https://sparcopen.org/) is the premiere global coalition committed to open access advocacy across research and education.