Dispersing the Serials Collection and Measuring Paper: Cooperative Storage Efforts and Legacy Journals Management in a University Library

This article discusses workflows involved with contributing print journal back runs to scanning and storage efforts. The purpose of these efforts was to alleviate space problems in a library by consolidating stacks that were formerly used to house runs of bound journals. This article contributes to the literature on serials withdrawal projects by demonstrating database designs for tracking contributions made to cooperative storage facilities as well as highlighting an innovative solution for tracking the required linear feet for housing bound print collections.     

Managing a Comprehensive Cost-per-Use Project in a Large Academic Library

Abstract

This article reports the findings of a study to evaluate title-level cost per use (CPU) for most recurring resources at The University of Alabama Libraries. The study relied on cost and usage data from FY2016. The purpose of the project was to identify titles for cancellation and to establish CPU for most titles ordered individually and those within packages for use in future contract negotiations. The analysis began with a list of all recurring titles having a cost of $1,000 or more. The review involved 1,035 titles with an initial objective to highlight all titles with a CPU of $200 or more. Titles exceeding this CPU threshold received additional review, with several identified for cancellation. This article presents the findings and provides an overview of the process used to collect CPU on a large scale. The article outlines some of the challenges faced by libraries when trying to align data that are stored in various silos and the limitations for various platforms and software used when collecting CPU data. The findings from this study formed the basis for a LibGuide developed and used to raise awareness of the need for cancellations. The data also assisted with future contract negotiations.     

Electronic Journal Holdings Data Usage: Results of a Survey

Results of the CONSER Publication Pattern Initiative, Task Force to Explore the Needs and Uses for Holdings and Pattern Data for Electronic Journals survey, are presented. Following the survey data, two information professionals react with contrasting views on the usefulness and effectiveness of providing detailed e-journal holdings information to the end user. Serials Review 2003; 29:295–301.     

陕西省期刊业发展水平综合评价

陕西省是一个期刊出版和消费大省,评价本地区期刊业综合发展状况,对深化期刊业改革、加快其发展步伐具有重要的现实意义.在分析陕西省期刊业现状的基础上,利用综合指数法对全国各省区期刊业发展水平进行综合评价,评价结果为:陕西省期刊业发展水平总体上排在全国第8位,排名靠前,但与其他期刊业发达省份差距较大;利用聚类分析法对全国31个省区进行分层,也说明陕西省期刊业仍属于发展水平较低的省份.为此,提出改革出版管理体制、创建期刊品牌、实现多媒体发展、提高人均阅读率、发挥科教文化优势等建议,以期加快陕西省期刊业的发展.     

Correlation Between Perception-Based Journal Rankings and the Journal Impact Factor (JIF): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

This study, based on systematic review and meta-analysis, aimed to collect and analyze evidence on correlation between perception-based journal rankings and the most popular citation-based measure, Thomson Reuters Journal Impact Factor (JIF). A search was conducted in the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases. After the screening of titles, abstracts, and full text, 18 articles were selected as eligible for review and analysis. The included studies belonged to various subject areas in social sciences, science, and technology. The correlation coefficients found in most of the studies were statistically significant in a positive direction. The heterogeneity test was positive. Therefore, the random-effect method of meta-analysis was applied. The value of pooled correlation coefficient indicated a moderate positive relationship between two methods of assessing the quality of academic journals. The absence of a high correlation makes decision making based on a single ranking method dangerous. Therefore, a hybrid approach for journal assessment is recommended.     

中国企业员工体面劳动感知的结构研究

体面劳动是政府和劳动者共同追求的重要社会发展目标,但目前学术界对体面劳动的探讨更多局限于物质环境层面,尚未上升到劳动者的心理感知层面。结合国内外相关研究,采用定性与定量相结合的方法,编制了中国企业背景下员工体面劳动感知问卷,探索员工体面劳动感知的内在结构。研究表明:员工体面劳动感知由工作权益体面感、工资收入体面感、工作氛围体面感、企业形象体面感、工作时间体面感、工会维权体面感等六因素构成,并且员工对该六因素的关注度呈递减趋势,说明在中国社会发展的不同时期,员工对体面劳动的关注点存在差异;同时,员工体面劳动感知问卷先后通过了探索性因子分析和验证性因子分析的信度效度检验,表明问卷是稳定可靠的。     

Nontraditional Approaches to Assessing Journal Importance: Case Study of Russian Journals on Earth Sciences

Abstract

Currently, a broad set of bibliometric indices for evaluation of journal quality, the level of its internationalization, and interactions between serials are available. However, some cases require one to obtain more precise methods to assess journals, e.g., when estimating new journals, selecting them into international citation databases, increasing their rank, broadening their readership, or optimizing editorial policy. To cope with new challenges, new approaches have been introduced including altmetrics and various analyses of editorial board composition and impact. Analyzing altmetrics and studying geographic diversity on editorial boards, comparing these data with that of journal authors, and evaluating research efficiency of editorial board members enables one to use new approaches to assess the rank of serials. This paper considers current research reports on altmetrics, geographic diversity, and publication activity of editorial board members of top journals on Earth Sciences published in the Russian Federation and recognized as international serials. It was found that such altmetrics as abstract views, full text views, and a number of viewed papers are now available as additional metrics to evaluate journal quality. Furthermore, provided that the data on altmetrics are complete, they can be considered as a specific predictor for future citations and other citation-based indices. Editorial board analyses demonstrate a correlation of bibliometric indices of editorial board members with that of a journal. As for geographic diversity, only half of the analyzed journals demonstrate a strong correlation between the number of foreign members on editorial boards and geographic representativeness of a journal, mainly due to the local nature of geosciences and trade secret mode in much of mining research. Generally, the obtained findings highlighted the efficiency of new approaches to evaluate journal quality both in the case of the absence of citation-based journal metrics and as an additional tool to traditional indices.     

基于洛特卡定律的国际社会化媒体研究成熟度分析

移动智能终端的不断升级和各种互联网技术的融合发展给社会化媒体产业带来了巨大的增长空间,近年来社会化媒体研究也随之成为最具增长力的学科领域之一。经典洛特卡定律能揭示特定研究领域作者数与所著科学文献数之间的规律,常被用来评判特定研究领域的发展成熟度,但存在精度不够等问题。在经典洛特卡定律的基础上,结合国际社会化媒体研究领域最新发展,拟合出该领域洛特卡定律常数的非线性回归方法来提高计算精度:以1994—2013年间ISI Web of Science数据库中社会化媒体相关主题的8 021篇文献为研究样本(SSCI数据库文献4 501篇,SCI数据库的文献4 279篇)展开研究,并进行K-S一致性检验。统计分析结果表明:国际社会化媒体领域的研究虽处于快速发展阶段,但成熟度不高,核心作者群尚未达到稳定状态。     

中国社会组织发展的社会经济效益量化测度与分析

社会组织是推动中国经济与社会发展的一支重要力量。通过文献梳理归纳中国社会组织对经济与社会发展的主要贡献模式,运用灰色关联分析法剖析社会组织同国民经济三次产业部门间的内在发展联系,并以此为参考修订投入产出表,构建投入产出评价模型量化测度与分析中国社会组织发展的社会经济效益。研究结果显示,当前中国社会组织发展的社会经济效益不容忽视,且未来存在较大提升空间,而持续健康发展是中国社会组织得以提升其社会经济效益的根本条件。     

The 5K Run Toolkit: A Quick,Painless, and Thoughtful Approach to Managing Print Journal Backruns

Abstract

Increasingly, academic libraries are choosing to discard or place in storage print journals that are now available online. The identification of these titles and related collection analysis activities are often time-intensive. The approach at the University of Saskatchewan Library was to develop an online toolkit that combined available data from disparate sources including the integrated library system, SFX link resolver, and OCLC's WorldCat and then present them in a collaborative open source environment. This paper demonstrates how the careful combination of existing data presented in a simple online format allowed subject specialists to make accurate print journal deselection decisions quickly and painlessly.     

对青岛市“十五”期间经济社会发展协调性的探析

本文探讨了经济社会协调发展的定量分析方法,提出了"协调度"的量化概念,并结合青岛市经济社会发展的历史模拟,确定了"协调度"的临界限.根据协调度,对青岛市"十五"期间经济社会的协调性作出了总体判断,并分7个领域进行了因素利弊分析,提出了全市经济社会协调发展的努力方向,为政府宏观决策提供了重要依据.     

我国各地区社会保障资源条件利用程度分析

本文分析了我国各地区社会保障资源条件的丰裕程度,探讨了社会保障资源条件与社会保障水平之间的关系,发现我国不同地区社会保障资源条件与社会保障水平差异很大,发展不平衡,社会保障资源条件与人均社会保障待遇成正相关关系,与社会保障水平成负相关关系.     

Journal Prices Revisited: A Regression Analysis of Prices in the Scholarly Journal Market

Increasing prices of scholarly journals have been subject to fierce discussion for several decades. In this paper the authors integrate influence factors of journal prices analyzed in different previous studies in a unified regression model based on current data. Three different models are calculated. In the first model (overall market) the largest influence was found for the size of the journal. Additionally, the authors calculate separate regression models for STM (Scientific, Technical, Medical) vs. HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) journals and for for-profit vs. not-for-profit journals. The first comparison found that the influence of the number of published articles is much lower for HSS journals. The comparison between for-profit and not-for-profit journals showed that the influence of the circulation of a journal on its price is higher in the for-profit segment.     

中国社会发展水平综合评价研究

一、问题的提出自20世纪90年代以来,人类发展问题已成为当代社会人们研究的重大课题。诚然,人类社会是发展了,但发展的现实世界中还有许多不尽如人意之处。如经济发展了,却带来许多产品生产过剩的问题;人口平均寿命提高了,却又伴随着出现老龄人口的社会保障问题;经济发展的速度     

Building a Sustainable Collection Review Process: Managing Qualitative and Quantitative E-Resource Data over Time

Abstract

Comprehensive e-resource reviews often happen in response to financial crises. Data are collected, and faculty are consulted about reductions. After the review, the data are forgotten or lost until the next crisis. Librarians at one public institution were initially motivated by a financial crisis to review their e-resources. But, they also wanted to use this crisis as a means to develop persistent review criteria and a longitudinal review process. This article will summarize how they identified the principal stakeholders, review criteria, essential data, workflows, and management application to support a process that would transcend a single crisis.     

社会网络分析视角下复杂网络结构关系的综合测度

为了克服复杂网络节点数量繁多、结构关系不易测度的难题,文章提出一种社会网络分析视角下“以点界面”的研究思路.通过构建一个新的综合测度指标,完成对网络中节点的综合评价,实现对网络结构关系的测度.与现有社会网络单一测度指标相比,综合测度指标突破现有单一测度指标的局限,构建过程充分利用单一测度指标间关系规律.复杂网络仿真实验进一步表明,无论有中心结构的网络结构和无中心结构的网络结构,综合测度指标提高网络节点不同评价维度和网络角色自带信息的利用率,对网络中节点的全面刻画更为贴切,为复杂网络结构关系综合测度研究提供一种新工具,为提高生活生产效率、预防灾害负面影响提供参考和依据.     

The Concerns of Authors: Textual Analysis of Online Journal Reviews

This paper presents the results of an investigation of Chinese authors' attitudes towards, and concerns about, academic journals by analyzing their comments posted on a journal review Web site. The views of 338 authors about 13 Chinese academic journals in the library and information science field were collected. Using word frequency, word co-occurrence, and factor analysis, their comments were processed and the important factors extracted. The authors addressed a series of aspects regarding the journal itself, the review and publication process, and the service provided by editors. The paper provides a unique opportunity to understand Chinese authors' views using a direct source.     

The Impact of RDS on Usage of Electronic Content in UK Academic Libraries: Selected Results from a UKSG-Funded Project

Resource discovery services (RDS), also called web-scale discovery services (WDS), have attracted considerable attention in recent years. This article aims to provide an environmental scan of the adoption of RDS in UK higher education libraries and provide an analysis of RDS resource usage data to gauge whether RDS have an impact on the overall usage of ejournals and ebooks. Findings show that there appears to be a positive impact in most cases, although the extent of this impact varies across libraries and publishers. There is undeniably a degree of complexity in the usage analysis owing to the multidimensional nature of the environment.     

社会审计功能发挥对企业稳健运营影响研究

社会审计有助于提高公司治理水平,治理水平高的公司其运营的稳健性水平也高。以2003-2014年沪、深两市A股上市公司为样本,利用主成分分析法合成了企业稳健运营的综合性指标,并在审计意见的基础上构建了社会审计功能发挥的代理变量,考察社会审计对企业稳健运营的影响。研究发现,社会审计有助于提高企业运营的稳健性。通过替换指标和改变估计方法后重新回归,研究结果依然不变。