Online journals' impact on the citation patterns of medical faculty.

PURPOSE: The purpose was to determine the impact of online journals on the citation patterns of medical faculty. This study looked at whether researchers were more likely to limit the resources they consulted and cited to those journals available online rather than those only in print. SETTING: Faculty publications from the college of medicine at a large urban university were examined for this study. The faculty publications from a regional medical college of the same university were also examined in the study. The number of online journals available for faculty, staff, and students at this institution has increased from an initial core of 15 online journals in 1998 to over 11,000 online journals in 2004. METHODOLOGY: Searches by author affiliation were performed in the Web of Science to find all articles written by faculty members in the college of medicine at the selected institution. Searches were conducted for the following years: 1993, 1996, 1999, and 2002. Cited references from each faculty-authored article were recorded, and the corresponding cited journals were coded into four categories based on their availability at the institution in this study: print only, print and online, online only, and not owned. Results were analyzed using SPSS. RESULTS: The number of journals cited per year continued to increase from 1993 to 2002. The results did not indicate that researchers were more likely to cite online journals or were less likely to cite journals only in print. At the regional location where the number of print-only journals was minimal, use of the print-only journals did decrease in 2002, although not significantly. CONCLUSION/DISCUSSION: It is possible that electronic access to information (i.e., online databases) has had a positive impact on the number of articles faculty will cite. Results of this study suggest, at this point, that faculty are still accessing the print-only collection, at least for research purposes, and are therefore not sacrificing quality for convenience.     

注重物理科学方法教育,培养学生创造能力

物理科学方法教育有利于学生能力的培养,科学世界观的形成,以及对物理知识的掌握和对物理规律的认识。而物理科学方法教育要以物理实验为基础,结合物理概念、规律和物理学史进行方法教育。     

Practical training and internships in engineering education: Educational goals and assessment

In many engineering curricula a period of practical training in industry is either compulsory or advised. Often the educational goals of such a period are defined as 'learning to put knowledge and skills into practice'. The assessment is usually based on a technical report of the activities during the period. In this paper, how the definition of educational objectives led to the introduction of practical training is discussed. These objectives are acquiring insight in the engineering profession, learning to 'survive' in a different culture and learning to apply as well as broadening technical knowledge and skills. Furthermore, an assessment procedure is introduced which allows for testing whether the students have met the objectives.     

中国科学教育的困境与出路

中国的科学教育是在伪科学的双重压力下艰难地发展 ,无论是在培养科学尖端人才方面 ,还是提高大众科学素养方面 ,都不尽如人意。科学教育的困境既有教育内部的原因 ,也有教育外部的原因 ,走出困境的出路在于建立科学教育与社会文化互动的开放系统。     

襄樊城市形象与书法景观建设

襄樊市拥有丰厚的书法艺术文化,书法影响着襄樊城市形象塑造。书法作为景观组成元素对塑造襄樊城市整体形象、打造襄樊城市标识、开发设计襄樊城市旅游、营造襄樊古城商业营销环境等具有重要作用,书法景观建设是弘扬和设计襄樊城市形象不可缺少的基本手段与内容。