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An interview is presented with Mallory Blasingame and Jing Su. Topics discussed include their paper on catalytic roles of fully integrated information scientists; thier motivations of becoming information scientists; and the importance of information privacy for the health care field. It also informs on precautions they have taken for maintaining information and records privacy.

An interview with Amy Trost and Susan Makar, the members of the organization the Special Libraries Association (SLA), is presented. The topics discussed include an overview of the study titled "Operationalizing Bibliometrics as a Service in a Research Library," their contributions to the 2015 SLA Annual Conference, and ways on how they collaborate in the research paper.

In the article the authors highlight the presentation "So, They Say You Have to Publish" by the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). The presentation examined the phenomenon of subject specialists publishing articles in key journals in their fields, and announced the names of universities whose librarians published the most papers. The authors explore the benefits of publishing, as well as the compensation and credit issues.

An interview with Melanie Browne, manager of information services at Maple Leaf Foods in Toronto, Canada, is presented. When asked about her decision to write a contributed paper on "Communicating Value through Strategic Alignment," she states that libraries are facing a challenge due to questioning the need for information professionals. It is her opinion that it is important for the Special Libraries Association (SLA) to publish peer-reviewd journals as it would bring respect for librarians.

The article presents information on a study conducted by information services company Elsevier BV, according to which researchers in the Netherlands engage in cross-border collaboration for writing papers, which enhances the impact and prestige of their publications.

The article discusses the researches that point towards the increasing trend of multiple authors coming together to write research papers in fields like physics, space science and engineering.

The article reports on a 2012 announcement from the Nature Publishing Group in which the group indicated that Chinese scientists in 2012 are conducting and publishing more research than ever before and that China could overtake the U.S. as the world's leading publisher of scientific papers.