Timeliness of the contents of certain legal publications

Librarians and lawyers depend on the publishers of legal materials to provide quick access to the court opinions, statutes, and regulations needed for legal research. There has been no systematic study, however, of the comparative speed with which legal publications provide the text of legal documents to users. This article presents a statistical analysis of the performance of certain commonly used legal publications, measured by the time elapsed from the issuance of a legal document to the receipt by a library of a publication containing that document. The article concludes that some of the truisms of legal research (that, for instance, official reporters of court opinions are always slower than commercially published reporters) are questionable, and that more extensive and refined statistical analysis is needed to ascertain the efficiency of the legal publication system.     

试论非法出版物流入图书馆的法律问题

非法出版物流入图书馆后，会对图书馆事业造成严重的影响。根据有关法律、法规的规定，对非法出版物流入图书馆，并造成不良后果负有责任的人员和单位应追究行政或刑事责任。     

多媒介传播纸质出版物对高校图书馆采访工作的影响

探讨了多媒介传播纸质出版物的形式和内容,分析了多媒介传播纸质出版物时高校图书馆采访工作的影响,提出了图书采访工作应采取的对策。     

数字出版物转载、摘编的法律权利探析

由于技术提供者与内容提供者的分离,转载、摘编在我国数字出版业中具有特殊重要性。在数字出版领域,转载、摘编他人已发表作品进行网络传播者必须取得原著作权人的明文许可。数字出版物编辑在转载、摘编时需注意:分清"合理使用"与"法定许可使用";转载传统出版商推出的汇编作品时,要根据情况取得不同的许可;将自己通过转载、摘编方式形成的文摘类传统出版物予以数字化出版时仍需再次取得原著作权人的许可。     

电子文献数据库的评估与选购

总结上海交通大学图书馆八年来的电子献采购经验，通过调查、酝酿、选题、试用、评估、决策过程，探讨献的性价比和利用率在采购中的重要性，以及如何做好已订电子献数据库的跟踪评估工作，切忌不顾价格高低、专业设置、读多寡，盲目跟进。     

法制新闻的法制属性与原则

法制新闻的法制属性是它区别于一般新闻的特殊性。这种特殊性体现了法制价值，遵循了法律规范，凝聚了法治精神。法制新闻除了要按照新闻规律遮作外，还盐须遵守法制的基本规则，它主要体现在：维护宪法与法律权威，尊重司法独立，恪守无罪推定，树立法律真实的证据意识，坚持与司法程序共进。     

An evaluation of bibliographical aids to nigerian government publications

This article identifies problems of bibliographic control of Nigerian official publications. It begins by outlining the historical and political evolution of Nigeria and general bibliographical control problems experienced by Nigerian official publications. The author argues that official publications are valuable sources of information to a wide range of library users and that their bibliographic control assists not only librarians, documentalists and other information workers in selecting and tracing documents, but also helps users to identify relevant documents. The existing bibliographic aids to Nigerian government publications are surveyed, their shortcomings and problems of bibliographic control, in general, are discussed, and corrective suggestions are advanced.     

The value and credits of n-authors publications

Collaboration among researchers is becoming increasingly common, which raises a large number of scientometrics questions for which there is not a clear and generally accepted answer. For instance, what value should be given to a two-author or three-author publication with respect to a single-author publication? This paper uses axiomatic analysis and proposes a practical method to compute the expected value of an n-authors publication that takes into consideration the added value induced by collaboration in contexts in which there is no prior or ex-ante information about the publication's potential merits or scientific impact. The only information required is the number of authors. We compared the obtained theoretical values with the empirical values based on a large dataset from the Web of Science database. We found that the theoretical values are very close to the empirical values for some disciplines, but not for all. This observation provides support in favor of the method proposed in this paper. We expect that our findings can help researchers and decision-makers to choose more effective and fair counting methods that take into account the benefits of collaboration.     

The publications of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (the addition of ‘Royal’ to the Society's title was granted in 1988) was one of the early professional bodies to be created and given a Royal Charter. It was also a founder member of ALPSP. From the Society's 19th century beginnings to the present day there have been many changes, not least among the publications launched over the years. The histories of some of them reflect happenings in the periods in which they have been produced.     

Predicting research excellence at the individual level: The importance of publication rate,top journal publications,and top 10% publications in the case of early career mathematicians

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between publication rate, top journal publications and excellence during the first eight years of the career, and how well publication rate, top journal publications and highly cited publications during the first four years of the career can predict whether an author attain excellence in the fifth to the eighth year. The dataset consisted of publication track records of 406 early career mathematicians in the sub-field of number theory collected from the MathSciNet database. Logistic regression and dominance analysis was applied to the data. The major conclusions were (1) publication rate had a positive effect on excellence during the first eighth years of the career. However, those who publish many articles in top journals, which implicitly require a high publication count, had an even higher probability of attaining excellence. These results suggest that publishing in top journals is very important in the process of attaining excellence in the early career in addition to publishing many papers; and (2) a dominance analysis indicated that the number of top journal publications and highly cited publications during the first four years of the career were the most important predictors of who will attain excellence in the later career. The results are discussed in relation to indicator development and science policy.     

编辑审选活动的地位及认识特征

审选活动是编辑工作中最基本、最实质性的活动。编辑审选中的认识活动主要是“价值认识”。与作者在研究问题、进行写作中的“事实认识”相比较,它具有不同的认识特征。通过研究编辑审选活动中的认识特征,以及价值认识在人类认识和实践活动中的中介性质,可以使我们正确认识编辑活动的本质属性。     

The influence of missing publications on the Hirsch index

We show that usually the influence on the Hirsch index of missing highly cited articles is much smaller than the number of missing articles. This statement is shown by a combinatorial argument. We further show, by using a continuous power law model, that the influence of missing articles is largest when the total number of publications is small, and non-existing when the number of publications is very large. The same conclusion can be drawn for missing citations. Hence, the h-index is resilient to missing articles and to missing citations.     

互联网出版物的形态和价值

为了提升我国互联网出版物的品质和品牌,增强其国际竞争力和文化实力,在介绍互联网出版物的形态、特征的基础上,揭示了其主要价值,包括权威性检索、增值服务、互动评价、知识网络、媒体融合等。