Information on studies on religions in databases of the INION RAS on social sciences and humanities: Principles of processing and the choice of a search strategy

This paper describes the problem thematic structure of databases on studies of studies on religion that is formed at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The principles of the informal processing of documents and queries based on a complex of linguistic tools of the system are uncovered. The problems of information searching using queries of different complexity are discussed.     

The challenges of information retrieval in social sciences and humanities and ways to overcome information barriers

This paper explores the major challenges of access to information that face the consumers of various databases of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The key features of different types of information barriers are investigated. The possibilities and means to overcome these barriers are explored in the current context.     

Title of the databases of legal information for use in social and humanitarian sciences

This article considers the legal information resources accessible over the Internet, as well as databases stored on optical media providing searchable legal information with various intended purposes. Features of the informational environment are described, as are the functions and thematic structure of the RAS ISISS databases, which are oriented towards providing informational support for scientific research in the fields of law and government. The general principles underlying the search and processing of legal information using the system’s linguistic methods are presented.     

Impacts of government website information on social sciences and humanities in China: A citation analysis

The purpose of this research is to investigate the current state and trend of government website information cited by social science and humanities (SS&H) journal articles in China. The Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI) was used as the benchmark and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals as the reference samples. It analyzed 204,019 web citations (N = 5,063,237) found in 925,506 articles that were published in CSSCI journals during the 1998–2009 period. The findings unveil that web citations accounted for only 4.03% of the total number of citations (N = 5,063,237), and that citations of Chinese government websites constituted 6.6% of the total number of web citations (N = 204,019). The study disclosed detailed information regarding citations derived from ministries and commissions directly under the State Council websites (N = 69), government online media (N = 7), government website citation subjects (N = 21), and various types of government website information (N = 5). Although government website information has limited influence on SS&H, their impact is currently growing rapidly. In comparison with international research community, influence of government web information on Chinese social science is higher, while its influence on humanities is lower. Essentially, Chinese scholars put emphasis on citing information from authoritative central government websites or highly visible state-owned media information as supporting evidences in their articles. In general, the citation of information from Chinese government website tends to hot social issues of society. Finally, it is necessary to promote the visibility of local government websites, to develop policies and guidelines to encourage the disclosure and the diversity of data, so that there will be more citation balances between social and technological topics.     

Thesauri of the ISISS RAS for social sciences and humanities

This paper describes the results of scientific and practical work on the creation of the Information Retrieval Thesauri for Social Sciences and Humanities for the Automated Information System of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the RAS series, viz., the problems of forming a lexical array, the properties of terminology and introduction of branch thesauri, and the role that is played by the structure of thesauri as an instrument for expanding the navigation potential in the conceptual space of documents from a bibliographic fund.     

Op. cit.: publishing in the humanities and social sciences

Do the humanities and social sciences have the same publishing requirements as the sciences? What can be done to counter perceptions that acquisition funds have migrated away from publications in the fields of the humanities and social sciences to meet the escalating cost of electronic and print journals in the natural and applied sciences? With university presses, non-profit publishers, and the academy itself under strain, we examine the problems, discuss the continuing requirements of scholarship, the implications for funding strategies, and the role of technology, and give examples of new ventures that suggest possible solutions to the problems. We conclude that the primary values that scholars in the humanities and social sciences hold are not dramatically different from those of other academic disciplines and make recommendations for building a broader base of support for scholarship in these areas.     

我国人文社会科学研究成果评价研究进展

文章针对目前我国人文社会科学研究成果评价规范之间存在着矛盾与冲突,各种评价理念与具体的评价操作很不一致的现状,对我国人文社会科学研究成果评价的发展历程、探索轨迹与各种研究观点进行了归纳述评,并从超越观点、创新观点、计量观点、管理操作观点与综合观点的角度做了系统分析,力求反映国内相关研究的新进展。     

Straddling the humanities and social sciences: The research process of music scholars

Few research projects have focused on the information needs of the music scholar. What is known about the information needs of the music scholar has been gathered through large-scale studies of various humanistic disciplines. This article describes a six-stage model of the music scholar’s research process. The model was constructed contextually through interviews with 30 music scholars who were asked to describe a recently completed research project. Research activities pertaining to specific stages in the research process are identified and described. This study compares existing models of the research process of other humanities scholars and explores the implications for library and information science professionals.     

The interdisciplinary aspects of the interaction of bibliography with social sciences and humanities

The interdisciplinary interaction of bibliography with sociology, history, pedagogics, information science, and cultural studies is considered based on the information approach. Bibliography is shown to act as an indicator of social development as a part of the metainformation “layer” of society.     

Information resources for social sciences and humanities: Support for research on innovative development in Russia

The information requirements for the scientific literature on innovation are analyzed. The results of a content study on innovation-related information in the databases on social sciences and humanities of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) of the Russian Academy of Sciences are presented. The problems of information searching for innovation-related issues based on the use of a set of linguistic tools are described.     

社科情报工作要为繁荣社会科学事业提供可靠信息保障--在中国社会科学情报学会第五次全国会员代表大会上的讲话

同志们,大家好！ 非常高兴有机会参加全国社会科学,情报学会的会员代表大会。在这次会议之前,刚刚举行了社科院系统的文献信息资源共建共享的研讨会,现在又接着开社会科学界的情报学会,应该说这两个会前后召开是一件盛事,同行们在这里相聚,为研讨我们共同关心的问题提供了一个很好的机会。中国社会科学情报学会是我们中国社会科学院主管的104个学会中的一个,社科情报学会自1986年成立以来,在团结全国社会科学情报工作者积极开展图书馆学情报学理论研究,推动图书馆事业发展方面发挥了十分积极的作用。随着信息化时代的到来,面对哲学社会科学研究对我国社会主义现代化建设的作用越来越凸显的新形势,我们这个学会的重要性也越来越显现出来。过去大家都说我们这个学会属于一个边缘学科学会,好象不怎么被重视,可是在信息化时     

The information support of the research in sinology based on electronic resources of the INION RAS

This paper considers the basic categories of consumers of information on sinology. It describes the results of analyzing the problem and thematic structure of the document flow on the problems of China, which is contained in databases on social sciences and humanities of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) of the RAS. The principles for complex processing of documents and searching for information on sinology are uncovered based on a complex of linguistic instruments. The potential for creating a database on country studies database that is focused on the information needs of sinologists is determined.     

Book editors in the social sciences and humanities: an analysis of publication and collaboration patterns of established researchers in Flanders

Book editors in the social sciences and humanities play an important role in their fields but little is known about their typical publication and collaboration patterns. To partially fill this gap, we compare Flemish editors and other researchers, in terms of career stage, productivity, publication types, publications with domestic and international collaboration as well as the number of (international or all) unique co‐authors, co‐editors and associated book chapter authors. The results show that editors are mostly established researchers, especially in the social sciences, produce more book chapters and monographs than do other researchers, and are more productive. Nevertheless, editors collaborate less than do other researchers, both in terms of publications and in number of co‐authors. Including book chapter authors in the editors' collaboration networks makes those networks substantially larger, demonstrating that editors do not mainly call upon authors from their existing collaboration network when choosing book chapter authors in the edited books. Finally, editors seem to co‐author with their book chapter authors slightly more often after the publication of the edited book than before.     

和谐语境下的探讨:新闻学科学与人文的双重建构

在分析人文思想对新闻学建构价值的基础上,本文提出,立足于构建和谐社会、传播和谐社会核心价值体系观念的语境,新闻学必须从以人为本和科学发展观出发,在科学与人文的交叉点上进行自身理论体系的重新建构.     

网上中文社会科学信息资源学科分布初探

为了全面认识网上中文社会科学信息资源的整体水平 ,进一步开发和利用网上中文社会科学信息资源 ,本文通过网站搜索、类目划分、栏目设置三种途径 ,从学科的角度对网上中文社会科学信息资源进行了初步测试与分析 ,描述网上中文社会科学信息资源学科分布的总体特征。最后提出组织与管理网上中文社会科学信息资源的几点建议。     

社科信息资源建设研究的学科性质和相关学科探讨

从图书馆文献资源建设到信息资源建设的发展脉络来看,社科信息资源建设研究的学科性质是现代图书馆学,其相关学科是社会科学和信息资源管理学.探讨这个问题,将有利于推动社科信息资源建设的进程.     

Toward a scalable and sustainable approach to open access publishing and archiving for humanities and social sciences societies: a proposal

The proposal we offer here (and in the more extensive ‘white paper’ proposal on which this article is based) tackles head‐on the open access (OA) business models that have proven particularly problematic for implementation of OA in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). Our proposal suggests all tertiary institutions contribute to systemic support of the research process itself, including its entire scholarly output. A bold rethinking of the economics of OA by way of partnerships among scholarly societies and academic libraries funded by an institutional fee structure based on a student‐and‐faculty per‐capita sliding scale, our plan is nevertheless intentionally incremental. Our proposal focuses first on HSS and primarily in the United States, but just as research and scholarship are increasingly global and collaborative, our plan is not bound by discipline or national borders, but can be adopted by all those looking for a more equitable and sustainable OA model.     

继往开来,努力开创社会科学情报事业繁荣发展新局面

中国社会科学情报学会迎来了20周年华诞。20世纪80年代中期,以中国社会科学情报学会的成立为标志,我国社会科学情报事业发展出现第一个高潮,随后步入平缓发展期。社会科学情报事业的兴衰与哲学社会科学整体发展密切相关。进入新世纪,在繁荣发展哲学社会科学的大背景下,社会信息化整体水平逐步提升,无疑会促进社会科学情报事业更大规模地发展,迎来新一轮高潮。     

Library Catalog Analysis as a tool in studies of social sciences and humanities: An exploratory study of published book titles in Economics

This paper explores the use of Library Catalog Analysis (LCA), defined as the application of bibliometric or informetric techniques to a set of library online catalogs, to describe quantitatively a scientific-scholarly field on the basis of published book titles. It focuses on its value as a tool in studies of Social Sciences and Humanities, especially its cognitive structures, main book publishers and the research performance of its actors. The paper proposes an analogy model between traditional citation analysis of journal articles and Library Catalog Analysis of book titles. It presents the outcomes of an exploratory study of book titles in Economics included in 42 academic library catalogs from 7 countries. It describes the process of data collection and cleaning, and applies a series of indicators and thematic mapping techniques. It illustrates how LCA can be fruitfully used to assess book production and research performance at the level of an individual researcher, a research department, an entire country and a book publisher. It discusses a number of issues that should be addressed in follow-up studies and concludes that LCA of published book titles can be developed into a powerful and useful tool in studies of Social Sciences and Humanities.