Journal article overlap among Index Medicus, Science Citation Index, Biological Abstracts, and Chemical Abstracts

Journal article overlap is defined as the same journal article being indexed by two or more services. Using journal references from seventy dissertations written in the preclinical sciences, the extent of journal article overlap among Index Medicus, Science Citation Index, Biological Abstracts, and Chemical Abstracts was examined. Of the 7,969 journal references cited, 92% were indexed by at least two of these services; 591 articles were covered by only one of the services, and 55 articles were not indexed. A discussion of the advantages and costs of journal article overlap is presented.     

Mapping the literature of occupational therapy.

Occupational therapy, formally organized in the United States in 1917, is considered an allied health field. Mapping occupational therapy literature is part of a bibliometric project of the Medical Library Association's Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section's project for mapping the literature of allied health. Three core journals were selected from the years 1995 and 1996 and a determination was made of the extent to which the cited journal references were covered by standard indexing sources. Using Bradford's Law of Scattering three zones were created, each containing approximately one-third of the cited journal references. The results showed that three journals made up the first zone, 117 journals the second, and 657 the third. The most cited journal was the American Journal of Occupational Therapy. In the second zone, journals from twelve disciplines were identified. While MEDLINE provided the best overall indexing, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) was the only database that indexed the three most cited journals plus nine of the currently active titles in occupational therapy. MEDLINE could improve its coverage of occupational therapy by indexing the journals of the British, Canadian, and Australian national associations.     

Can information ethics be conceptualized by using the core/periphery model?

The term ‘information ethics’ (IE) is rapidly diversifying as new technologies enter the milieu and add to already existing ‘entanglements’. Unsurprisingly, the term lacks a universally accepted definition, although there is some common ground as to its constitution. This paper explores the term using the most commonly co-occurring terms in IE literature as indexed in nine databases, namely the EBSCO-hosted Academic Search Premier (ASP); Communication and Mass Media Complete; ERIC; Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA); Newspaper Complete; Business Premier; and Master File Premier, and Wilson's Library Literature and Information Science (LLIS) Full Text. Core/periphery analysis, the co-occurrence of words as subject terms, and social network techniques were applied using UCINET for Windows, text STAT and Bibexcel computer-aided software to analyze data. The paper identifies the most common terms used to describe IE and the core terms with which IE can be defined. Other than informing LIS research and education, the results could potentially assist with the development of IE taxonomy and definitions (e.g. in understanding IE content and development) that may apply to the intercultural and global understanding of IE.     

Characteristics and publication patterns of theses from a Peruvian medical school

Background: Many medical schools require a student thesis before graduation. Publishing results in a peer‐reviewed journal could be an indicator of scientific value and acceptability by the scientific community. The publication pattern of theses published by medical students in Peru is unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the characteristics and publication pattern of theses in biomedical‐indexed journals conducted by medical students in a university with the highest research output in Peru. Methods: Data from registered theses between 2000 and 2003 were obtained from the university library. Publication of theses in biomedical journals was assessed in 2008 by a search strategy using PubMed, Google Scholar, LILACS, LIPECS and SciELO. Results: Four hundred and eighty‐two medical theses were registered between 2000 and 2003; 85 (17.6%) were published in biomedical‐indexed journals. Of the published theses, 28 (5.8%) were published in MEDLINE‐indexed journals, 55 (11.4%) in SciELO‐indexed journals, 61 (12.6%) in LILACS‐indexed journals and 68 (14.1%) in LIPECS‐indexed journals. Most of the published theses (80%) were in Spanish and published in Peruvian journals; and 17 theses (20%) were published in foreign journals (all of them indexed in MEDLINE). In addition, 37 (43.5%) belong primarily to internal medicine, and 24 (28.2%) belong primarily to infectious diseases. Medical students were first authors in 71 (83.5%) of the articles. Conclusion: In this study, most of the published theses were in Spanish, published in local journals and indexed in LIPECS. The percentage of published theses in biomedical journals at this university is comparable with others coming from developed countries.     

再议网络环境下科技期刊中文参考文献的双语化

通过对网络环境下参考文献链接技术的分析及SCI收录的中文期刊参考文献双语化程度调查,并列举相关实例,提出随着网络技术的发展,人们已经能够实现中西文文献的有效链接,参考文献双语化有了更大的优势和发展空间.     

Thousands of Australian academics on the editorial boards of journals run by predatory publishers

A total of 966 allegedly ‘predatory’ open access publishers were examined to determine the nature of their ethical or unethical practices and the extent to which Australian academics were included on the editorial boards of their journals. An estimated 4,000 Australian academics (ca. 7% of the academic population) are on these journal boards. Of the publishers, 240 proved to be overtly fraudulent, the ethical status of the others remaining unresolved. About 86% of the Australian academics identified appeared on the editorial boards of journals belonging to those 240 publishers. Despite two decades of advocacy from librarians, there remains widespread ignorance of the existence of such fraudulent publishers, and more severe action is required. Reform proposals include naming the publisher in all references and in academic profiles and curriculum vitae. Universities are encouraged to take responsibility for publishing journals that replace those currently causing the problem. Institutions are urged to augment their current warnings and advice with formal policies, which will probably require a blacklist of unacceptable publishers. New formal policies for dealing with predatory publishers are currently being developed in some Australian universities.     

Searching the right database. A comparison of four databases for psychiatry journals

Journal coverage is one factor that affects the retrieval of relevant information from bibliographic databases. The aims of this study were to investigate the coverage of databases for psychiatry journals, and to assess the overlap between databases. Psychiatry journals were identified using Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory and then analysed to see which bibliographic databases indexed the most journals. A total of 213 abstracting and indexing services were listed as indexing at least one of the 977 psychiatry journals identified. The four most frequently cited databases (PsycLIT, EMBASE, BIOSIS and MEDLINE) indexed 506 (52%) of the psychiatry journals. Of these 506 journals, PsycLIT indexed 367 (73%), EMBASE 337 (67%), BIOSIS 243 (48%) and MEDLINE 236 (47%). Combining the databases with the highest yields (PsycLIT and EMBASE) increased the number of journals indexed to 461 (91%). The four databases combined accounted for 90% of all psychiatry journals found to be indexed by at least one abstracting and indexing service. More than 400 journals were not indexed at all. Variations in the overlap between PsycLIT, EMBASE, BIOSIS and MEDLINE, and the high proportion (35%) of journals indexed in only one of these four databases emphasize the importance of searching more than one or even two databases to ensure optimal coverage of the literature.     

The ERIC Database

Abstract

The ERIC database is available in many free Internet versions, mainly from ERIC clearinghouses. Paying for access to ERIC through a commercial vendor is a decision that needs to be justified by all libraries with finite budgets. This case study attempts to determine the relative merits of the features and functionality of the various free versions of the ERIC database in comparison with one commercial version. Conclusions are shared about decisions reached at one academic library. The conclusion centers on whether libraries can forgo a commercial version of the ERIC database.     

参考文献的网络链接及其对中国学术期刊的影响

参考文献的网络链接功能在中国期刊网上已初见端倪.它可以帮助我们探索学术思想的链接关系,追寻学术流派的渊源,发现新兴的交叉学科,预测学科的发展趋势.参考文献的网络链接对学术期刊的标准化、规范化提出了更高的要求,利用其网络链接功能,有利于对学术期刊的稿件进行评估,有利于提高我国学术期刊的被引用、被检索的概率,并使学术期刊的网上策划选题与组稿成为可能.     

三种物理学科全文数据库的比较研究

APS、AIP和IOP是物理学科中常用的权威的全文数据库。本文以这三种数字资源为例,分别从被SCI/SCIE收录情况、学科分布、JCR期刊影响因子及检索性能等几个方面对其进行对比分析,为高校图书馆物理学科的数字资源建设提供一定的依据。     

Recent literature on government information

This column was prepared from a manual scan of library and information science journals, and manual or automated searches of sources including ERIC, PAIS International in Print, America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, R. R. Bowker's Books in Print, Library Literature, Current Contents: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Government Reports Announcements & Index, EPIC, and the electronic discussion group GOVDOC-L. Citations are to items published or indexed from November 1994 through April 1995, including articles, books, reports, government publications, and chapters or essays in collected works. Reviews and short news articles are omitted. Each publication is cited once under its primary topic, and annotated if the content cannot be adequately determined from the title.     

Uncited papers in the structure of scientific communication

The paper presents an in-depth study of uncited papers. For that, we explore the documents indexed in the INSPIRE database from 1970 to 2015. Uncited articles represent a complex bibliometric environment in which references are generated. The reference lists of uncited papers form a dynamic system partially responsible for the redistribution of scientific impact. Our task is to quantify the detailed structure of citations and references directly in terms of quantiles. We also study the entropy and the statistical complexity measure of references and citations of papers’ quantiles. We introduce a theoretical framework in which citation distribution is considered an asymptotic distribution of the largest values in a sequence of independent identically distributed random variables. We show that this asymptotic distribution is the generalized extreme-value distribution. Furthermore, we empirically demonstrate that the asymptotic behavior of citation distribution is close to (but not quite) the generalized extreme-value distribution.     

Integrating 21st century access to ERIC services and resources

This paper explores issues surrounding the development of the ERIC dataset as it enters the 21^st Century. The central theme that runs throughout the analysis is the need for the dataset and the rich, growing array of Clearinghouse services to be integrated to provide a single end-user window into ERIC.     

ERIC user services: Changes and evaluation for the future

Presents findings on the state of ERIC user services and evaluation efforts performed so far. Recommends changes to strengthen ERIC’s competitive edge and identifies areas of user services critical to ERIC’s strategic goals. Offers an evaluation plan to produce benchmark data for future assessment and inform ERIC’s decision on its future direction.     

7. ELECTRONIC MEDIA

INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Ronald A. Cass and John Haring (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “AEI Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation,”; 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–8447–4071–3, 291 pp., notes, references, index)

THE ECONOMICS OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE by Soon‐Yong Choi, Dale O. Stahl, and Andrew B. Whinston (Indianapolis, IN: Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1997—$49.99, ISBN 1–57870–014–0, 626 pp., tables, charts, graphs, notes, suggested readings and Internet resources, index)

THE FUTURE OF THE ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE edited by Derek Leebaert (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998—$35.00, ISBN 0–262‐ 12209‐X, 383 pp., notes, index)

ELECTRONIC MARKETING AND THE CONSUMER edited by Robert A. Peterson (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997—$58.00/27.95, ISBN 0–7619–1069–7 hard, 0–7619–1070–0 paper, 193 pp., tables and figures, references, index)     

Finding Education and Training Technology:

The current national education crisis makes it imperative for educators to identify relevant research and development on new and innovative instructional techniques. The United States Department of Defense (DOD) has significant education and training responsibilities that could be useful in providing instructional technology for transfer to civilian applications. However, we propose that there is a gap between the holdings of ERIC, the primary education database, and NTIS, the main database for information on the activities of Federal government agencies, including the DOD. Much information with a Federal derivation may not be cited in ERIC. We develop a series of search statements based on these propositions. These are applied to each database and the results analyzed. Findings substantiate at least a limited gap that must be recognized by educators and information professionals and that has implications for testing holdings of other databases.     

ERIC: Mission,structure, and resources

This paper provides an overview of the mission, structure, and resource base of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). An extensive review of literature coupled with the conduct of a key informants survey is used to produce an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of these aspects of ERIC. It is followed by recommendations for possible avenues for change and approaches to further investigation.     

ERIC on CD-ROM and RIE:

From September 1988 to October 1990, Houston Cole Library spent $4,852.00 for search fees for ERIC online. The popularity of the service was the stimulus to locate funds to purchase a workstation for ERIC on CD-ROM. The availability of a University faculty research grant provided the opportunity to fund the workstation and perform research aroiect durine: the transition. The author conducted a study comparing the ERIC print index, Resources in Education. to the ERIC index in CD-ROM format The study conlrasts the: two formats in the areas of accuracy of results, time savings and user satisfaction.     

ERIC on CD-ROM and RIE:

From September 1988 to October 1990, Houston Cole Library spent $4,852.00 for search fees for ERIC online. The popularity of the service was the stimulus to locate Cunds to purchase a workstation for ERIC on CD-ROM. The availability of a University faculty research grant provided the opportunity to fund the workstation and perform a research project dwing the transition. The author conducted a study comparing the ERIC print index, Resources in Education, to the ERIC index in CD-ROM format. The study contrasts the two formats in the areas of accwacy of results, time savings and user satisfaction.