How can ICT contribute to the learning of foreign languages by pupils with SEN?

In this article Lynne Meiring and Nigel Norman focus on the notion of entitlement and the demands this has made on schools and teachers to cater for the needs of a wide range of pupils previously denied an experience of foreign languages. In order to enable all pupils to realise their potential, facilities and strategies have to be reviewed and developed to ensure that their learning experience is appropriate. This article focuses on the contribution that one such facility, namely information and communications technology (ICT), can make towards removing some of the barriers to learning experienced by some pupils, enabling them to realise some of the benefits of what has often been perceived as a particularly inaccessible curricular area. The authors examine how the generic capability of ICT can enhance and enable the learning of pupils with special educational needs (SEN), but do not purport to consider specifically the specialised technology required for certain manifestations of special need.     

图书馆终端服务器的安全设置

基于Windows2000的图形终端以其易于安装管理、使用简单、总拥有成本低廉等优点在图书馆界得到广泛应用。本文主要论述了极为重要的终端服务器的安全问题。结合清华大学图书馆的实际应用经验，给出了在终端维护过程中将遇到的安全问题和应对措施。     

图书馆信息资源建设中的数据库建设

提出了图书馆信息资源建设中的数据库建设系统，并着重介绍了书目数据库和特色馆藏数据库，以及虚拟馆藏数据库建设的意义和相关问题，从而让用户了解数据库建设在图书馆信息资源建设中的重要性。     

利用汇文系统进行外文图书回溯建库

本文结合汇文系统编目模块，论述了如何做好外文图书回溯建库的工作：利用一个优良的图书馆自动化管理软件，选择合适的回溯建库方案，选择合适的光盘书目数据源和网络书目数据源，注重书目数据质量的控制是做好外文图书回溯建库的关键。     

数字图书馆中的知识发现

本文针对数字图书馆特点 ,提出将知识发现技术应用于数字图书馆的信息发现和信息提供的方案 ,并介绍和分析了几种具体的应用形式 ,对我们今后实现数字图书馆原型有较大的启迪作用     

Studying parental involvement and university access and choice: An ‘interacting multiple capitals’ model

Capital‐embedded parental involvement in education is essential in enhancing university enrolment and maximising the educational potentials for equality and excellence. Previous studies in this field have mainly utilised Perna's ( 2000 , 2006 ) model, which defines parental involvement as social capital and identifies the additive influences of different types of capital (including social, economic and cultural capital) on university access and choice. Yet, little research to date theorises and disaggregates the interplay among various types of capital as well as the multiplicative capital effects on enrolment. This study addressed this gap. We proposed an ‘interacting multiple capitals’ (IMC) model and hypothesised that parental social capital could moderate the effects of cultural and economic capital on entry to university. To validate the model, a pilot survey was administered to 216 university students of Korean ethnicity in China and investigated the models of involvement adopted by Korean parents in the context of the increasing labour mobility of the Korean adult population. Moderated multiple regression analysis was employed and the results confirmed the hypothesis that capital effects upon university access and choice were multiplicative in nature, with social capital moderating the cultural capital influence on students’ educational aspirations. The study findings show that the interaction of various types of capital variables is sufficiently statistically significant to warrant future research and policy and practical discussion of how to promote parental involvement in university preparation and planning.     

Framing of transitional pedagogic practices in the sciences: enabling access

Educational literature shows that students from working-class backgrounds are significantly less likely to persist to completion in higher education than middle-class students. This paper draws theoretically and analytically on Bernstein’s ([1990. Class, Codes and Control, Volume IV: The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse. London: Routledge; 2000. Pedagogy, Symbolic Control, and Identity: Theory, Research, Critique. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield]) thesis that, through differential framing of pedagogic practices, the curriculum has capacity to accommodate all groups of students. Pedagogic practices in both a science foundation course and four first-year mainstream science courses in a higher education institution in the South African context are examined. Whilst the foundation course exhibits modalities that generally favour access, the mainstream courses have some modalities that appear to be constraining. It is argued from a social justice perspective that holistic curriculum transformations that better enable epistemic transitions are an urgent imperative, and that consideration of differential framing of pedagogic modalities offer a close-up empirical means of conceptualising such reforms.     

开放存取出版的收入模式与商业模式分析

【目的】通过建立开放存取（OA）出版的收入模式,归纳分析现有的商业模式,总结OA期刊IJABE办刊经验,为国内外同行和相关主体提供参考借鉴。【方法】 主要采用案例分析法对OA出版收入模式、现有商业模式以及IJABE可持续商业模式进行分析和探讨。【结果】 从供应方和需求方两方面建立了能够全面描述OA期刊出版收入来源的收入模式;全面归纳总结了现阶段OA期刊出版常用的商业模式和典型案例;IJABE期刊的最佳商业模式具体描述为基于科研经费转移支付的作者付费商业模式,以论文发表费为主,综合采用多元化收入来源。【结论】 中国OA期刊学术出版主体应立足稿件质量,顺应时代潮流,不断探索其可持续发展道路。     

In search of query patterns: A case study of a university OPAC

A transaction log analysis of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) OPAC was conducted to identify query and search failure patterns with the goal of identifying areas of improvement for the system. One semester’s worth of OPAC transaction logs were obtained and from these, 641,991 queries were extracted and used for this work. Issues investigated included query length, frequency and type of search options and Boolean operators used as well as their relationships with search failure. Among other findings, results indicate that a majority of the queries were simple, with short query lengths and a low usage of Boolean operators. Failure analysis revealed that on average, users had an almost equal chance of obtaining no records or at least one record to a submitted query. We propose enhancements and suggest future areas of work to improve the users’ search experience with the NTU OPAC.     

The effect of use and access on citations

It has been shown (Lawrence, S. (2001). Online or invisible? Nature, 411, 521) that journal articles which have been posted without charge on the internet are more heavily cited than those which have not been. Using data from the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ads.harvard.edu) and from the ArXiv e-print archive at Cornell University (arXiv.org) we examine the causes of this effect.