We May Be Teaching Information Literacy,but Are the Design First Year Students Actually Getting It?

The purpose of this study was to examine the outcomes of information literacy instruction for the Design first year students at the Temasek Polytechnic Library. Also of interest was whether or not the librarian was being seen as easily approachable, and if the students were deeming the lessons to be worthwhile. A participant action research approach was used, with the data being collected from multiple choice tests delivered via the institutional learning management system, group exercises, and a diagnostic assessment that was delivered before the workshops. It was found that the students did see the librarian as someone who was eminently approachable, and the majority of them found the lessons to be of value. It was concluded that the use of a diagnostic tool can be very useful in highlighting the gaps in students' knowledge, and that it would be beneficial to use it for all information literacy instruction at TP. Suggested future research could include a study of how much the students retain of IL skills into their third year of study.     

Health science libraries in Sweden: new directions,expanding roles

Librarians in Sweden are facing huge challenges in meeting the demands of their organisations and users. This article looks at four key areas: coping with open science/open access initiatives; increasing demands from researchers for support doing systematic reviews; understanding user experiences in Swedish health science libraries; and the consequences of expanding roles for recruitment and continuing professional development. With regard to changing roles, there is an increasing shift from the generalist towards the expert role. The authors raise the issue as to how to prepare those new to the profession to the changing environment of health science libraries.     

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.     

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.     

新课改背景下教师权威的消解与重构

随着新课程改革的不断推进，教师权威受到严峻的挑战。教师权威的存在是客观且有其合理性的。新课程消解了教师的知识权威、传统权威和法定权威。重建教师权威，需要从转换教师角色、改善知能结构、完善人格等几个方面着手。     

依法行政加强药品监督管理

贯彻《行政许可法》，依法加强药品监督管理，其根本目的是保证药品质量，保障人民用药安全有效。必须加强药监队伍建设，树立公正执法形象，构建健康有序的药品市场，实现药品监督执法的规范化、法治化。     

欧盟贯通科学仪器创新价值链的项目资助模式研究及启示

科学仪器是科学研究不可或缺的工具,是推进高水平自立自强的重要基石和保障。重大科技基础设施研发建设催生诸多具有产业应用前景的科学仪器及相关技术,但转移转化尚任重道远。欧盟基于“开放科学、开放创新与向世界开放”理念设立ATTRACT项目,尝试加速推进重大科技基础设施探测和成像相关的实验技术产品化与市场化,构建基于科学仪器创新价值链的创新生态系统。文章围绕国内科学仪器项目组织现状与管理特点,深入剖析ATTRACT项目的组织管理模式,以期为我国加速重大科技基础设施先进技术转化,优化科学仪器创新资源配置,突破高端科学仪器研发与转化瓶颈提供支撑和参考。     

高校科研管理队伍建设现状与对策

本文针对我国当前科技与产业发展形势,探讨了我国高校科研管理队伍建设中存在的问题,并就在新形势下加强高校科研管理队伍建设提出相应的对策。     

发展乡村旅游是社会主义新农村建设的重要途径

乡村旅游是当前和未来一段时期内我国社会主义新农村建设的重要组成部分。分析了乡村旅游与社会主义新农村建设的良性互动关系,提出了立足长远、科学规划、合理布局、突出本土化、走特色化道路、不断创新的发展乡村旅游事业的具体对策,旨在促进乡村旅游的可持续发展。     

建设国家热带作物工程技术研究中心的可行性探讨

针对热带作物生产发展现状,分析了热带作物产业在我国农业生产中的重要性,探讨了建立国家热带作物工程技术研究中心对提高热带作物产业的核心竞争力,加快我国热带作物产业健康发展的必要性和可行性。