Core Analysis in Collection Management

A study of the circulation of "core" and "non-core" religion titles in a small liberal arts college library is presented. A configuration of core-titles was established from overlapping listings in two standard check lists; non-core titles were randomly selected. Contrary to recent studies, results show core titles circulating at over twice the annual rate of the non-core. A complex of local factors related to direct promotional efforts rather than avoidance or casual selection by undergraduates is hypothesized as accounting for differential circulation. Implications of internal and comparative circulations of core and non-core materials for collection-management are discussed; the importance of combining use-analysis methodology with conventional qualitative evaulation is emphasized.     

科技论文图表题名中错例分析

举例说明科技论文中4种常见的图表题名的错误与不规范,包括:1)内容缺乏专指性;2)与图表内容重复;3)与图表内容不符;4)中英文题名不一致.并给出了它们的正确表达形式.     

PERIODICALS USE AT A SMALL COLLEGE LIBRARY

Analysis of observed use of general, humanities, social science and general science periodicals revealed an adherence in the upper 90% of total use to Bradford's Law of Dispersion. General and social science titles were used to a far greater extent than humanities titles. In their order of significance, indexing, bibliographic instruction, and housing decisions increased the use of any given title. Applied as opposed to theoretical disciplines experienced a higher overall use percent of their titles. Foreign language titles experienced minimal use regardless of their subject content.     

Availability of accessible publications: designing a methodology to provide reliable estimates for the Right to Read Alliance

OBJECTIVES: To establish reliable estimates of the proportion of books available in formats accessible to visually impaired people; to recommend a practical method of updating the estimates. METHODS: The project had two stages. Stage one estimated the overall availability of all categories of books. The British National Bibliography (BNB) for 1999-2003 was chosen as the sampling frame. A sample of 2069 titles over the 5 years was selected using a systematic sample design. These titles were then checked for availability against the catalogues of four major producer/suppliers of materials in accessible formats. The second stage involved checking the availability of books in six genres; about 400 titles for each genre were examined. RESULTS: Of the titles selected for the overall estimate, 92 (4.4%) were found to be available in one or more accessible formats. Availability of titles in accessible formats varied greatly between categories. Adult fiction had the highest number of available publications (26.3%), least represented were cookery (1.9%) and gardening (1.8%). CONCLUSIONS: This study provided baseline figures and a methodology for the Right to Read Alliance to monitor their progress in campaigning for more books to be accessible to visually impaired people.     

药学核心期刊论文题名质量调查

对16种药学核心期刊论文题名进行了抽样分析,在449篇论文中有95篇存在题名问题,占21.2%.这些问题可以归纳为4类:1)题名与论文内容不符,偏离主题或夸大主题;2)研究三要素不全或不具体;3)用词、句型、标点不规范,或词序不合理,或使用了非公认通用的缩略词;4)题名冗长,不简练.初步归纳了编辑加工题名的方法.     

Undergraduate Periodicals Usage

A practical method of evaluating periodical use within the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois was developed in 1980. This methodology involves limited labor and costs. No complicated computer tabulations were involved in the study, which: identified individual periodical titles and ranked them according to use; identified the status of the user; identified bound volume use by title and year; and determined the loss rate, by title, of current issues. The study also contrasted current issue use with bound volume use for each title. Using this information, those titles that will satisfy 90% of the patrons' needs were identified.     

科技学术论文英文图表题名译写举隅

针对科技类学术期刊英文图表题名存在的结构不规范、用词不当、搭配不妥、逻辑混乱、表达不准确等问题,根据笔者的编辑实践,参阅中外期刊,总结了英文图表题名的一些常用句型,并列举国外英文期刊中的典型实例,以期探索英文图表题名的译写规律.强调应重视图表题名的译写,学习和借鉴国外知名期刊的经验,不断提高英文图表题名的撰写水平.     

医学期刊编辑应重视论文题名的加工

医学论文的题名是文献数据库的基本索引信息。题名应当用最简明的语言来准确表达论文的核心思想,这对提高论文的被阅读、被引用具有重要意义。本文列举了目前中文医学论文题名中存在的常见问题,如对论文的核心内容凝炼不够等,提出了关于编辑应重视提高题名加工质量的建议。     

STATISTICAL DETERMINATION OF BOUND VOLUME JOURNAL HOLDINGS IN A SCIENCE LIBRARY

A method for the determination of the number of bound journal uolumes in a science library using a sampling technique is discussed. The method allows one to calculate the extent of journal runs for both current and noncurrent titles. A comparison of the total number of volumes arrived at using the methodology of the current study and another independent study shows agreement within 5%. Further incidental information gathered during the course of the study prouides information on other characteristics of the collection.     

Beyond Journal Impact and Usage Statistics: Using Citation Analysis for Collection Development

This article outlines a methodology to generate a list of local core journal titles by doing a citation analysis and details the process for retrieving and downloading data from Scopus. It analyzes correlations among citation count, journal rankings, and journal usage. The results of this study reveal significant correlations between journal rankings and journal usage. No correlation with citation count has been found. Limitations and implications for collection development and outreach are also discussed.     

Journals Pricing

A significant new study has been conducted at Cornell University. The Mann Library surveyed several hundred titles in Agriculture and Biology, in order to analyse their prices (per page and per thousand characters) over time, comparing university presses, commercial publishers, society publishers and government agencies. They aimed to develop a methodology, using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, which could be used elsewhere, and to use their findings to examine the patterns of article ownership and pricing of published scientific research.     

The Relative Credibility of Zoo‐Affiliated Spokespeople for Delivering Conservation Messages

Abstract Zoos aspire to be leaders in environmental conservation through their work in environmental education. This study examined whether a spokesperson's job title impacts credibility when conservation messages are delivered to the public. Visitors to a zoo were presented with seven environmental messages. They then selected—from a list of zoo‐related job titles—the one they deemed most credible and the one considered least credible. Statistical analysis established that three “credible” job titles were selected significantly more often, while three were generally selected as “least credible.” The authors demonstrate that some job titles have greater credibility than others among visitors, and recommend that more attention be given to this variable if attitude and behavior change are desired outcomes. They caution that while source credibility may vary based on job title, the influence it has on persuasiveness is yet to be determined.     

Citation analysis in the literature of tropical medicine

A brief historical account of tropical medicine as a science is given, followed by a short survey of the development of the literature in the field. The citations indexed in Tropical Diseases Bulletin for a forty-eight-month period (1972-1975) were analyzed according to the journal in which they were published and the language in which they appeared. The results of the study conformed to Bradford's law of bibliographic distribution. The reference scattering coefficient was determined to be 0.504, which indicated a high concentration of articles in relatively few journal titles. A rank order list of sixty-one journal titles is given in an appendix. The study showed English to be the most important language in the literature in terms of productivity. The results of the study may be used as an acquisition tool for developing a journal collection in tropical medicine.     

A comparison of biomedical databases

Various published bibliographic and abstract services covering the period 1970-1988 were compared to analyze scope and coverage. A total of 7,281 articles and book titles (1,655 Soviet and 5,626 foreign) were selected on forty-one topics in different medical fields. The titles originated from three different samples but included all Soviet medical literature on the subjects. A distribution of biomedical serials from five databases is given by country, and twelve indices to assess the quality of biomedical databases are suggested.     

Creating a Statewide JSTOR Repository: Initial Steps Taken by the Florida State University System

In Florida, the State University Libraries deans have chosen to take a two-pronged approach to addressing limited physical capacity in their facilities: developing a statewide storage facility and deduplicating print serial titles. The initial efforts in the state have focused on titles included in the Journals in Storage electronic collections. Specifically, the collaboration between the University of Florida and Florida State University is the focus of this article. The background information, efforts made, lessons learned, and jobs still to be done will each be given more attention, with the intent of providing a starting point for other institutions considering similar initiatives.     

Fast-Paced,Romantic, Set in Savannah: A Comparison of Results from Readers' Advisory Databases in the Public Library

Readers' advisory databases are used by public librarians to assist patrons in finding books based on the facts of the plot, the factors used to describe the appeal of the book, or read titles similar to another book they have read. Librarians depend on these databases to give a complete view of the titles available given these limiters, and may assume that identical searches in each database would give similar results. This study compares search results from four databases to see the extent of crossover within those results, using fact-based searches, appeal factor searches, and read-alike searches.     

引文分析在图书馆文献采集中的作用-北京大学有机化学专业博士论文的文献计量研究

以北京大学化学系有机化学专业1995-1999博士论文为数据来源进行了引文模式分析,并对引用量最大的外文期刊进行了排序。该研究结果将对有机化学专业领域的期刊采购具有一定的借鉴意义。     

Let's stick together: collaborative purchasing of electronic journals in the National Health Service

AIM: To describe the process and the lessons learned from the collaborative purchasing of electronic journals by National Health Service (NHS) libraries in the East Midlands, UK. RESULTS: The background to a successful joint purchasing initiative is described, including the methodology for selecting titles and the formula for dividing the payment. Factors that have a bearing on successful collaboration are discussed, including use of a Framework Agreement, licensing conditions and measuring impact. CONCLUSION: NHS librarians working together can leverage collective benefits for users through collaborative purchasing.