The IR Has Two Faces: Positioning Institutional Repositories for Success

This article describes the ongoing efforts at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries to evolve the role of the institutional repository (IR) and to effectively position it within the context of the Libraries’ collections, research support, and scholarly communication services. A major component of this process is re-examining the fundamental aims of the IR and aligning it to the Libraries and the campus strategic goals. The authors situate UNLV Libraries’ experience within the context of the current literature to provide background and reasoning for our decision to pursue two, at times conflicting, aims for the IR: one for scholarly communication and another for research administration.     

Google Scholar and Web of Science: Examining gender differences in citation coverage across five scientific disciplines

Many studies demonstrate differences in the coverage of citing publications in Google Scholar (GS) and Web of Science (WoS). Here, we examine to what extent citation data from the two databases reflect the scholarly impact of women and men differently. Our conjecture is that WoS carries an indirect gender bias in its selection criteria for citation sources that GS avoids due to criteria that are more inclusive. Using a sample of 1250 U.S. researchers in Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Cardiology and Chemistry, we examine gender differences in the average citation coverage of the two databases. We also calculate database-specific h-indices for all authors in the sample. In repeated simulations of hiring scenarios, we use these indices to examine whether women's appointment rates increase if hiring decisions rely on data from GS in lieu of WoS. We find no systematic gender differences in the citation coverage of the two databases. Further, our results indicate marginal to non-existing effects of database selection on women's success-rates in the simulations. In line with the existing literature, we find the citation coverage in WoS to be largest in Cardiology and Chemistry and smallest in Political Science and Sociology. The concordance between author-based h-indices measured by GS and WoS is largest for Chemistry followed by Cardiology, Political Science, Sociology and Economics.     

Technological research in the EU is less efficient than the world average. EU research policy risks Europeans’ future

We have studied the efficiency of research in the EU by a percentile-based citation approach that analyzes the distribution of country papers among the world papers. Going up in the citation scale, the frequency of papers from efficient countries increases while the frequency from inefficient countries decreases. In the percentile-based approach, this trend, which is uniform at any citation level, is measured by the e_p index that equals the P_{top 1%}/P_{top 10%} ratio. By using the e_p index we demonstrate that EU research on fast-evolving technological topics is less efficient than the world average and that the EU is far from being able to compete with the most advanced countries. The e_p index also shows that the USA is well ahead of the EU in both fast- and slow-evolving technologies, which suggests that the advantage of the USA over the EU in innovation is due to low research efficiency in the EU. In accord with some previous studies, our results show that the European Commission’s ongoing claims about the excellence of EU research are based on a wrong diagnosis. The EU must focus its research policy on the improvement of its inefficient research. Otherwise, the future of Europeans is at risk.     

教师培训新形式:案例教学

对案例教学的内涵,案例研发以及案例教学的实施进行了探讨。     

篮球教学中学生观察学习能力的提升研究

为了深入探讨提高学生在篮球教学中的观察学习能力,本论文主要通过文献资料法,对观察学习的分类及其过程进行阐述,分析了观察学习与相关学习的区别。并对学员观察学习的对象及其特点进行了分析,最后根据观察学习理论与学生身心特点给出了相关建议。     

近代中国留学史研究的回顾与反思

近代中国留学史研究发端于二十世纪初的教育史研究,且较早得到国外学者的关注。自上世纪九十年代,相关学术成果不断涌现。目前,理论视角、研究方法以及史料运用等方面存在的问题成为制约留学史研究进一步发展的瓶颈。     

医学检验专业教学与检验技士资格考试对接的探索与实践

临床医学检验技术资格考试系测评是否为合格专业人才的有效措施,这为检验专业教学指明了以资格考试为切入点,以行业需求为标准的导向。在专业教学中围绕资格考试大纲体现的专科教育教学“必需、够用”的原则,突出实用性和针对性,我院从人才培养、教师队伍建设、实践平台搭建等三个方面对医学检验专业的教学进行了探索与实践。     

努力推进教学科研工作 实现学院跨越式发展——学习《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要(2010-2020)》体会

《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要(2010—2020)》规划了未来10年中国教育改革发展要实现的目标。要增强本科办学意识和质量意识,必须认真学习高等教育的有关文件精神,切实抓好教学管理工作和科研管理工作,才能实现从专科层次到本科层次的跨越。     

情感基础上的中西融合——李长之传记批评法研究

在中国现代文学批评中,李长之的传记批评法独具特色,其中既有远承古典传统的象喻式批评法,又有西方理论影响下的文本细读、心理分析和社会历史批评法。在由作品分析而深入到作者及其时代考察的过程中,李长之始终强调情感体验的重要性,这也是其研究方法能够成功融合中西的关键所在。