6.55 Organization Strategies and Barriers
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The methods used to organize scholarly literature online can create a barrier to access for behavior analysts. Look at these organization strategies and see how they lead to a corresponding barrier.
| Organization Strategy | Barrier |
|---|---|
| Most scholarly literature is organized in academic databases separated by subject area (e.g., medicine, education, chemistry, history). | Behavior analysts engage in conceptual and experimental activities across a number of different subject areas. |
| Scholarly literature is also organized in academic databases provided by a specific journal publisher. | Behavior-analytic journals are published by many different publishing companies. |
| The scholarly literature is organized and maintained by different companies, some who charge for access. | Graduate school provided access to the scholarly literature through the university library. Many BCBAs no longer have access to a university library so they have to pay to access much of the scholarly literature. |
| The Behavior Analyst Certification Board and the Association for Behavior Analysis International provide access to some of the scholarly literature. | Access to the scholarly literature is provided across multiple databases and has to be searched across multiple interfaces. |
| Searching academic databases leads to articles in the database with that keyterm, phrase, or author name regardless of philosophical, conceptual, and/or methodological features. | The behavior-analytic scholarly literature often has terms or phrases common to many different disciplines, not just behavior analysis, leading to a long list of search results with unpredictable relevance. |
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