Department of Information Science, Tel: +44 (0) 1509 22 3052  Loughborough University

People in Department

 

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

 

Top