Australian Book Market: An Overview

In this article, Andrew Wilkins, the former publisher of bookseller+publisher magazine, provides an annual overview of the Australian book marketplace, offering statistics on the market and analysis of the key publishers, retailers and consumer habits. The second half of the article concentrates on international rights sales, an important aspect of the Australian publishing industry. This article was originally published in 2007 as part of the annual Think Australian magazine, which aims to support Australian publishers and literary agents at the Frankfurt Book Fair (see ).     

基于SCOPUS 数据库的撤销会议论文研究

本文对SCOPUS 数据库收录的撤销论文进行统计分析,结果发现约 97% 的撤销论文是会议论文,学科领域集中于计算机科学,工程,商业、管理和会计学,2010 年和2011 年的撤销论文异常多,其余年份的撤销论文较少。撤销会议论文绝大多数由IEEE Computer Society 出版,会议举办地点多在中国城市,部分会议论文集的论文撤销率达到75%,不少会议论文由于违反了IEEE 出版原则而被撤销。撤销论文的总体学术影响力较低,论文被引用率为15.7%,篇均被引频次为0.33。     

文章特质论(续)

与文学文体并列的狭义文章,其特征可概括为:再现客观现实的本真性;反映主客观的直接性、明确性;篇章结构、语言的规范性。     

我国学术期刊的学科分布及评价

依据中国学科分类国家标准《学科分类与代码》,揭示了我国学术期刊的学科分布状况,并从人均期刊数和论文产出率两个角度对各个学科的期刊进行横向比较和评价,对部分学科还进行了中美两国之间的论文生产率比较研究。结果表明,中国学术期刊存在着学科结构不合理的现象。     

"唐文三变说"与陈子昂

“唐文三变说”是关于唐代散文发展道路的理论总结,发端于中唐梁肃,发展于北宋姚铉,至北宋宋祁的《新唐书》基本定型,有着鲜明的发展脉络。《新唐书》之“唐文三变”说,较之前人,最大的分歧在于是否承认陈子昂为初唐文风变革的先驱。     

Video tutorials revisited: The relationship between their use and library assessment quiz scores

There is considerable literature evaluating video tutorials. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, research established that online video tutorials performed as well as traditional face-to-face instruction. However, there is little evidence that students actually viewed the tutorials. This study compares postinstruction assessment quiz scores from one class over four semesters with usage statistics for five video tutorials during the same time frame. The data indicate that students do view the tutorials. However, the results also show that usage statistics, together with quiz scores, declined as students progressed through the five tutorials. Additionally, the study determined that there was no positive correlation between the number of viewings and postviewing assessment scores.     

校报要让短稿唱主角

当前高校校报普遍存在着长稿偏多的现象，根据高校校报自身的任务和特点，应该在刊载字数、版面安排，写作方法等方面采取措施多采用短稿，以加大信息承载量。     

Internationalizing Reference Education

Reference instruction should also involve preparing library and information science students for working with international students. There are numerous options for embedding such content into courses. In addition, professional organizations offers students with many opportunities to launch their international experiences.     

COUNTER Release 5: What’s New and What It Means to Libraries

A new release of the COUNTER Code of Practice, Release 5 (R5), was recently published and becomes the standard that publishers and content providers must comply with when they deliver the January 2019 usage data to their customers. This article provides an overview of what’s new in R5, draws some comparisons to the previous code of practice, and discusses the implications for librarians.     

A Study of the Effectiveness of Web-Based Homework in Teaching Undergraduate Business Statistics

Web-based homework (WBH) Technology can simplify the creation and grading of assignments as well as provide a feasible platform for assessment testing, but its effect on student learning in business statistics is unknown. This is particularly true of the latest software development of Web-based tutoring agents that dynamically evaluate individual students' skill level and purport to respond with appropriate, targeted teaching to improve learning efficiency. In this article, we compare traditional, textbook-based homework assignments with three systems of WBH for undergraduate business statistics courses: ALEKS, PH Grade Assist, and custom-made online quizzes in Blackboard. These systems represent a range of media from artificial intelligence–based tutoring to instructor-controlled objective testing. Using a common assessment test, we compare the performance of students taught with these different systems. Our study finds, as we anticipated, that student performance depends significantly upon teacher experience and student academic competence. Once these factors are controlled for, however, the technique used to deliver homework makes little difference in student success. In contrast to other published research, we do not find any advantage to automated tutoring and identify some limitations of this approach based on both instructor and student feedback.