On the effectiveness of scientific activities in the priority fields of science,technology, and engineering

In this article, the author describes the history of dissertations in the natural and other branches of science that were defended in Russia over the past 20 years. Based on publications, an analysis is made of the efficiency of scientific activities in several priorityfields of science, technology, and engineering, including rational environmental management, the nanosystem industry, and information and telecommunications systems, as well as space and transport systems.     

学位论文再发表的背后原因探析及应注意的问题

从研究生培养管理制度和研究生求职需求、研究生培养单位的导师考评和职称晋升制度、科研项目管理制度、科研成果被广泛传播与利用的需求等方面分析学位论文再发表背后的客观原因,并结合工作实践对处理此类稿件时应注意的问题做了总结.认为学位论文析出稿件不应简单地被当作学术不端稿件处理,各期刊编辑同人应充分考虑此类投稿背后的客观原因,在不违反现有出版伦理的前提下,以内容的科学价值为标准来正确处理此类稿件的取舍问题.     

Kazakh analogue of the science citation index (SCI) as an important parameter of scientific research activities

The purpose of the Kazakh publication citation indicator that has been developed in Kazakhstan since 2005 is to carry out scientometric analysis of scientific publications to determine their citation rate. At present, the bibliographic database (BDB) on citation includes information on the publication activities and citation index of approximately 30000 Kazakh scientists and specialists. They had over 18000 scientific papers published in over 500 domestic and foreign journals. The total quantity of references to papers by Kazakh scientists was more than 28000. The Kazakh analogue of the science citation index determination system is an efficient tool for analytical work with the BDB of scientific publications, which makes it possible to calculate publication activities and citation parameters, which are used to define the value and demand for the results of scientific work in various fields of domestic science.     

Research Impact of Kazakhstan: Informational Problems and Barriers

ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the level of international scientific publication by Kazakhstani researchers, and considers the problem of access to international scientific resources in Kazakhstan, a developing country. Key areas of the discussion are Kazakhstan's strategic plans and policies regarding science, roles of international publishers in science, and the relationship between international publishers and the government of Kazakhstan. The article bears the informative meaning and has no research and findings. However, this is a good start point for the author and other Kazakhstani library and information professionals to study the subject more deeply and propose solutions for the good of all.     

The comparative importance of books: clinical psychology in the health sciences library

Clinical psychology has received little attention as a subject in health sciences library collections. This study seeks to demonstrate the relative importance of the monographic literature to clinical psychology through the examination of citations in graduate student theses and dissertations at the Fordham Health Sciences Library, Wright State University. Dissertations and theses were sampled randomly; citations were classified by format, counted, and subjected to statistical analysis. Books and book chapters together account for 35% of the citations in clinical psychology dissertations, 25% in nursing theses, and 8% in biomedical sciences theses and dissertations. Analysis of variance indicates that the citations in dissertations and theses in the three areas differ significantly (F = 162.2 with 2 and 253 degrees of freedom, P = 0.0001). Dissertations and theses in biomedical sciences and nursing theses both cite significantly more journals per book than the dissertations in clinical psychology. These results support the hypothesis that users of clinical psychology literature rely more heavily on books than many other users of a health sciences library. Problems with using citation analyses in a single subject to determine a serials to monographs ratio for a health sciences library are pointed out.     

基于网络的建筑与土木工程信息资源分布及检索策略研究

在全球逐步进入知识经济的年代,各个国家都在进行信息化建设。在这种环境下,建筑与土木工程的网络文献资源急剧增长,网络土建信息资源包括电子出版物资源、电子图书、科技成果类资源、会议文献资源、学位论文资源、机构与名人类资源。建筑与土木工程领域的研究者、工作者和学习者要了解目前网络上该学科的分布情况,通过网络数据库,利用检索工具帮助他们快捷地查找到这些宝贵的信息资源。     

中国科技成果数据库的功能与增值服务

中国科技项目创新成果鉴定意见数据库（知网版）收录了1978 年以来所有正式登记的中国科技成果数据, 共计56 万余项,集成了科技成果著述信息、知网学术文献总库中的期刊文章、硕博论文、会议论文、标准规范和专利 文献等在内的各类资源,最终形成科技成果知识网络,并提供了导航功能、检索功能、知网节功能、评价功能和用户 管理等各项服务。其中,知网节功能是对检索结果进行挖掘分析的资源整合模式,将所有具有密切联系的知识集成在 一个汇编页面上。此外,文章基于语义分类导航理念,探索了数据库增值服务的新模式。     

Scatter and obsolescence of journals cited in theses and dissertations of librarianship

This article analyzes the bibliometric features (the number of pages, completion years, the fields of subject, the number of citations, and their distribution by types of sources and years) of 100 theses and dissertations completed at the Department of Librarianship of Hacettepe University between 1974 and 2002. Almost a quarter (24%) of all dissertations were on university libraries, followed by public libraries (9%). Doctoral dissertations were, on average, twice as long as master's theses and contained 2.5 times more citations. Monographs received more citations (50%) than journal articles did (42%). Recently completed theses and dissertations contained more citations to electronic publications. Fourteen (or 3.2% of all) journal titles (including Türk Kütüphaneciliği, College & Research Libraries, and Journal of the American Society for Information Science) received almost half (48.9%) of all citations. Eighty percent of journal titles were cited infrequently. No correlation was found between the frequency of citations of the most frequently cited journals and their impact factors. Cited journal titles in master's and doctoral theses and dissertations overlapped significantly. Similarly, journal titles cited in dissertations also overlapped significantly with those that were cited in the journal articles published in the professional literature. The distribution of citations to foreign journal titles fit Bradford's Law of Scattering. The mean half-life of all cited sources was 9 years. Sources cited in master's dissertations were relatively more current. Single authorship was the norm in cited resources. Coupled with in-library use data, findings of the present study can be used to identify the core journal titles in librarianship as well as to evaluate the existing library collections to decide which journal titles to keep, discard, or relegate to off-site storage areas.     

The scientometric analysis of the “Abstract Journal” database

This paper discusses the results of statistical research on the information massif of the “Abstract Journal” DB (of the Republic of Kazakhstan) with a volume of about 50000 documents, which was carried out based on a number of scientometric indices. The types of journals, thematic structure of the AJ DB and prospective directions for investigations are designated. The leading journals on the themes of the series of the abstract journal are revealed. The averaged ratio between the scientific articles of the Kazakhstan scientists published in Kazakhstan, CIS-countries and far-abroad countries is determined to be 80: 5: 1. The main themes of publications in the English language relate to chemistry, physics, and mathematics. The works in various fields of Kazakhstan science are presented in Russian journals.     

学位论文的著作权保护及其开放存取的实现

我国学位论文使用中的著作权保护存在许多问题,文章借鉴开放存取的资源共享理念,探讨在我国实现学位论文的开放存取,以更好地实现学位论文的著作权保护.     

关于学位论文资源建设与开发的战略思考

学位论文作为一种重要的文献资源,其资源建设与开发利用日益得到图书馆界的重视。鉴于多年来形成的条块分割的管理体制及学位论文资源建设与开发中涉及的知识产权问题并非能够在短期内解决,我国应构建以博士学位论文为核心的学位论文资源建设与服务体系,以学位论文数据库建设为中心,全面推进学位论文资源的开发,同时处理好学位论文资源建设与开发过程中各参与主体之间的关系。     

Monitoring the implementation of scientific and technical programs in Kazakhstan

This paper presents the experience of the National Center for Scientific and Technological Information in providing information and analytical support to scientific and technological programs in Kazakhstan. This paper also describes key methods and mechanisms for such support. Statistical data related to scientific and technological programs that were registered in the National Center for Scientific and Technological Information in the period between 1995 and 2012 are presented. An in-depth analysis of programs that were implemented in 2011, as well as of their effectiveness, and the financial and staff resources involved, is performed. Sectoral programs are more effective in terms of patents filed and the use of the end results. Basic-research programs are more effective in terms of publication activity. The ranking of programs by effectiveness is correlated with their ranking by total volume of funding, as well as by the number and qualifications of the staff involved in the implementation of the programs.     

Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?

Dissertations can be the single most important scholarly outputs of junior researchers. Whilst sets of journal articles are often evaluated with the help of citation counts from the Web of Science or Scopus, these do not index dissertations and so their impact is hard to assess. In response, this article introduces a new multistage method to extract Google Scholar citation counts for large collections of dissertations from repositories indexed by Google. The method was used to extract Google Scholar citation counts for 77,884 American doctoral dissertations from 2013 to 2017 via ProQuest, with a precision of over 95%. Some ProQuest dissertations that were dual indexed with other repositories could not be retrieved with ProQuest-specific searches but could be found with Google Scholar searches of the other repositories. The Google Scholar citation counts were then compared with Mendeley reader counts, a known source of scholarly-like impact data. A fifth of the dissertations had at least one citation recorded in Google Scholar and slightly fewer had at least one Mendeley reader. Based on numerical comparisons, the Mendeley reader counts seem to be more useful for impact assessment purposes for dissertations that are less than two years old, whilst Google Scholar citations are more useful for older dissertations, especially in social sciences, arts and humanities. Google Scholar citation counts may reflect a more scholarly type of impact than that of Mendeley reader counts because dissertations attract a substantial minority of their citations from other dissertations. In summary, the new method now makes it possible for research funders, institutions and others to systematically evaluate the impact of dissertations, although additional Google Scholar queries for other online repositories are needed to ensure comprehensive coverage.     

The scientometric analysis of the activity of Kazakh scientists based on the materials of the SCOPUS DB (Netherlands)

This paper gives the results of the scientometric analysis of foreign publications by Kazakh authors that was reflected in the SCOPUS DB in 1991–2008. The publication activity is expressed in 3883 documents, the citation index of which is 10 132. The average share of Kazakh publications in the total worldwide flow is equal to 0.017%. The citation rate of publications was revealed to have significantly grown since the 1996–2000 period. It is shown that most articles were written in English and published in periodical editions. The main themes of publications are represented by physics and chemistry. The leading foreign partners of Kazakhstan in the scientific sphere were determined. Kazakh-Russian scientific cooperation is developing most fruitfully.     

The science of Kazakhstan in the scientific and technical development of the commonwealth of independent states

The problem of Kazakhstan’s performance in scientific activities as compared with the other Commonwealth countries according to scientific research costs, the number of institutions engaging in research and development activities, the financing sources, the staff number (specialists, doctors and candidates of sciences, salary level, and equipment costs) is discussed. Conclusions on the condition of science in Kazakhstan are given.     

学科服务研究的现状、热点及趋势

学科服务是当前图书情报学界的研究热点之一。通过对近年来发表的学科服务论文的计量统计分析可知,目前学科服务的论文数量逐年增多,学术界对其的重视程度不断增加,但地区差异较大;研究者多具备图书情报学专业背景,其论文主要发表在图书情报学专业期刊上,研究水平和质量较高;研究热点集中于实践探索、学科服务模式探讨、学科馆员制度制订、学科服务平台建设方面;目前的研究以基础性研究为主,缺乏行业指导性研究。因此,图书馆学界应深入实践,提高理论研究高度,加强对学科服务工作的绩效评估研究。     

基于编辑视角略论从博士论文到学术专著出版

将高质量博士论文改编为学术专著出版，是近年来专业出版领域中一种常见的出版形态，且呈上升趋势。文章对青年学者和出版单位的需求进行了梳理，指出博士论文和学术专著在内容和结构上的主要差异，对如何调整内容和结构，将博士论文打造成高水平学术专著提出建议。     

中国人文社会科学学位论文影响力分析报告——基于"中国社会科学引文索引"(2000-2004)

运用CSSCI提供的数据,从学科、语种、时间、机构等各方面对学位论文的利用现状进行分析,旨在剖析学位论文的利用情况,呼吁社会科学研究领域提高学位论文的开放程度,增强学位论文的可获得性,使广大学者更好地利用这一重要的学术资源。     

关于"研究生硕、博士学位论文全文数据库"建设的实践探索

本文从研究生硕、博士学位论文全文数据库建设的总体技术设计、数据库功能、数据库建设流程和实现方法几方面着手，阐述了东北师范大学图书馆研究生硕、博士学位论文全文数据库建设的实践过程和经验，对指导研究生学位论文数据库建设具有重要意义。     

The historical development of medical education in africa and the place of medical library and information services

Abstract

The main purpose of the sociology of reading is determining, through the analysis of reading data, the social processes actually at work in society. This article analyses the results of sociological research done by the research staffs of libraries in Kazakhstan between 1991 and 1994. It focuses also on the problems faced by the sociology of reading in Kazakhstan, where such research was previously considered by the authorities as purposeful only in solving the practical problems of libraries. Today, reading in Kazakhstan is characterized by frequent changes in readers' demands caused by the dramatic changes in ideology, politics and economics in the constituent parts of the former Soviet Union. Reading in Kazakhstan is becoming more utilitarian. Pragmatic information needs determine the choice of literature. There is a sharp decline in the demand for fiction compared to the 1980s. Those intellectual spheres in which ideological control was severest, such as history and philosophy, flourish and effect reading. Finally, the decision of independent Kazakhstan to encourage the use of the Kazakh language is having an effect on reading patterns.