From data to decisions: Using surveys and statistics to make collection management decisions

Librarians are well known as gatherers of statistics and other data. However, we do not always use the information that we gather, preferring instead to point to the numbers themselves as evidence of our work. This presentation attempted both to describe the benefits and drawbacks of numerous ways to accumulate information about our collections and library services and to show how that information can be used to make collection management decisions. The types of data to be described include usage statistics, subject–date analysis, bibliography or peer comparisons, patron input, cost-per-use, wear and tear, and anecdotal evidence. No one method of gathering data will give a complete picture. However, using a combination of data gathering methods can help to give an overall picture of the strengths and weaknesses of a given collection and give clues about what areas may need development—or can be ignored.     

Journal preferences of management teaching faculty

This paper reports the results of a survey of professors of management regarding their evaluation of management journals. The thrust of the questionnaire was on a journal's appropriateness as a forum for scholarly research. Results are reported for the total group of respondents, and for subgroups of professors of general, behavioral, and quantitative management courses.     

Combining new technologies for effective collection development: a bibliometric study using CD-ROM and a database management program.

Librarians have used bibliometrics for many years to assess collections and to provide data for making selection and deselection decisions. With the advent of new technology--specifically, CD-ROM databases and reprint file database management programs--new cost-effective procedures can be developed. This paper describes a recent multidisciplinary study conducted by two library faculty members and one allied health faculty member to test a bibliometric method that used the MEDLINE and CINAHL databases on CD-ROM and the Papyrus database management program to produce a new collection development methodology.     

在数字馆藏管理中引入信息生命周期管理策略

根据数字馆藏的特点，通过传统馆藏与数字馆藏生命周期比较，阐述了信息生命周期管理与传统的三线典藏制之间的联系，提出在数字馆藏管理中引入信息生命周期管理策略，从而指导图书馆在数字馆藏管理中以最低成本获得最大的信息价值。     

In their own words: Perspectives on collection weeding from library employees and teaching faculty

Following a Science and Engineering collection weeding project of over 350,000 print items, our research team conducted interviews with 20 library employees and 19 teaching faculty involved in the project. The purpose of the interviews was to assess the interviewees' perspectives and feelings relating to the time required to complete the project, inter- and intra- library communication, the decision-making processes, and their personal assessment of the costs and benefits of the project. The interviewees also offered their views of the overall project's successes and areas for improvement. Drawing from a qualitative analysis of the interviews, we provide guidance for other academic libraries preparing to undertake their own collection weeding projects including suggestions for what to expect and what to manage throughout the process.     

Revisiting the scaling of citations for research assessment

Over the past decade, national research evaluation exercises, traditionally conducted using the peer review method, have begun opening to bibliometric indicators. The citations received by a publication are assumed as proxy for its quality, but they require standardization prior to use in comparative evaluation of organizations or individual scientists: the citation data must be standardized, due to the varying citation behavior across research fields. The objective of this paper is to compare the effectiveness of the different methods of normalizing citations, in order to provide useful indications to research assessment practitioners. Simulating a typical national research assessment exercise, he analysis is conducted for all subject categories in the hard sciences and is based on the Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index-Expanded^®. Comparisons show that the citations average is the most effective scaling parameter, when the average is based only on the publications actually cited.     

引用辑刊的参考文献著录建议

GB/T 7714-2015《信息与文献参考文献著录规则》中没有专门的辑刊著录规定.建议根据出版物号确定辑刊的文献类型归属,进而按照对应的著录格式著录文献.其中,有连续出版物号(ISSN、CN)的辑刊归属"连续出版物",按"期刊"([J])著录;有标准书号(ISBN)的辑刊归属"专著",按"汇编"([G])或"图书"(...     

学术论文的下载频率与被引频率的相关性分析

为深入研究网络传播对提高学术期刊影响力的作用,从微观层面入手,对一篇学术论文网上下载频率和被引频率的相关性进行研究,给出了相关性的量化计算指标和计算方法.以<西安交通大学学报>的数据为例,对其1994年第1期、2006年第1～3期、2007年第1期发表文章的下载频率和被引频率进行统计,计算出两者的简单线性相关系数,并进行了分析.研究结果表明,网络传播是提升期刊影响力的必要条件和手段,吸引和发表优秀稿件才是提升期刊影响力的充分条件.