Health science libraries in Sweden: new directions,expanding roles          下载免费PDF全文

Lotta Haglund  Annikki Roos  Petra Wallgren‐Björk 《Health information and libraries journal》2018,35(3):251-255

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.  相似文献   

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

Jens Peter Andersen  Mathias Wullum Nielsen 《Journal of Informetrics》2018,12(3):950-959

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.  相似文献   

Fantasy,Pragmatism and Journalistic Socialisation: UK Journalism Students’ Aspirations and Motivations     

Daniel Jackson  Einar Thorsen  Sally Reardon 《Journalism Practice》2020,14(1):104-124

ABSTRACT

Despite the sustained growth in journalism as a choice of degree path for young people, our understanding of students’ aspirations and motivations remains relatively underdeveloped. At the same time, journalism careers appear increasingly uncertain, as the industry responds to digitalisation and convergence. In this mixed-methods study – employing 35 interviews and a survey of 837 UK journalism students – we ask what areas of journalism do students aspire towards, how do they feel about their future career prospects, and what is motivating them to study journalism in the first place? We find that intrinsic motivations (calling and talent, dynamic job) prevail over public service ones, with students drawn to soft news beats over hard news. Aspirations are also strikingly gendered, opening up questions of journalism education in this process. We also find that while students articulate an aspirational career in respected media outlets, they are pragmatic about their immediate career prospects. Here, journalism education appears to play a significant role in socialising students towards careers beyond journalism. Findings are discussed in the light of ongoing debates around journalistic socialisation and the future of journalism.  相似文献   

Teaching Them to Teach: Programmatic Evaluation of Graduate Assistants’ Teaching Performance     

Karen Sobel  Susan Avery  Ignacio J. Ferrer-Vinent 《Public Services Quarterly》2016,12(3):189-213

Academic libraries are one of the most important sources of “on the job” training for future library instructors. Librarians who supervise and assess these future library instructors (often in graduate assistant positions) often choose to provide observations and feedback each semester to these instructors in training. Scholarly literature, however, provides little information on whether this system helps graduate assistants to develop as teachers. The authors of this article assessed graduate assistants’ performance as teachers over three semesters using a system of observation and self-assessment. They analyzed both patterns and areas of growth and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this system.  相似文献   

Essential Skills for Corporate and Special Librarians     

Rebecca Davis 《图书馆管理杂志》2020,60(7):762-783

Abstract

Library science programs must be responsive to the wide variety of workplace needs to ensure that graduating students are prepared with appropriate knowledge and skills regardless of where their career path brings them, and to do so they must understand the various needs and expectations of the field. Through a nationwide study of over 2,000 current professionals and LIS faculty, this study examines the knowledge, skills, and abilities identified as core for special and corporate librarians. The results help establish a baseline of skills for corporate and special librarians, which will be of interest to current and emerging professionals interested in a career in these settings and could have implications for LIS education.  相似文献   

用社会主义核心价值观导引高职学生的学业观和择业观     

李晶 《南昌教育学院学报》2011,(11):7-8

高职学生是高等教育中的一个独立群体,其与本科大学生有不同的人文素养和认知水平。对高职学生的学业观、择业观进行深入研究,有利于科学地把握他们的思想动态以及行为取向,有利于高职院校更好地开展各种素质教育活动,帮助学生构建积极健康的学业观和择业观。本文从高职学生的核心价值观入手,剖析了高职学生"学业观、择业观"现状,提出了在社会主义核心价值观导引下高职学生"学业观"和"择业观"的导向机制。  相似文献   

Designing policy: collaborative policy development within the context of the European capital of culture bid process     

Stephen Kinsella  Annmarie Ryan 《Cultural Trends》2017,26(3):233-248

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How do ideas become policies? What route do they take from inception to implementation and what criteria are used to evaluate one set of proposals against another? This paper examines the development of the Creative Work Fellowship policy proposal in Limerick, tracing the origins of the idea, itself a contended and negotiated object, from discussions between academics and policy-makers through to scoping, pitching and scaling the policy to its eventual users. This policy idea was designed during the Intelligence Unit (IU) commissioned by Limerick2020 as part of the city’s bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2020. The IU took the form of a policy think-tank, tasked with generating insights, ideas and policy proposals into the place of culture within Limerick city and region. The IU structure created a set of actors and an epistemic community capable of both generating and using ideas effectively, chiefly through two mechanisms. The first involved a robust critique and rebuilding process that every element of the policy was exposed to; the second involved feedback from interested parties at specific stages in the process. This created a series of “policy entrepreneurs” capable of taking a fully costed and modelled policy suggestion to government. The findings presented in the paper include an analysis of the collaborative nature of this policy development process, Based on this framework, we also consider the role of the European City of Culture bid process as catalyst for policy development in a regional context, and present findings on this subject.  相似文献   

Aspiration and Reflection: Sport Historians on Sport History     

Heather L. Dichter  Wray Vamplew 《国际体育史杂志》2017,34(5-6):307-308

Abstract

Following the series of Presidential Forum conversation pieces instigated by Kevin Wamsley on the NASSH website, this piece places the context of the collection of comments and criticisms by 29 contributors to this special issue on sport historians reflecting on the field of sport history.  相似文献   

图书馆学和情报学的分野与融合发展(上)——对相关理论探讨的考察   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：2  

王锦贵  王素芳 《情报资料工作》2007,18(5):5-12

文章主要探讨了图书馆学和情报学分野和融合发展中学者的争论、各国理论发展路径及发展趋向.在美国,情报学诞生后有关图书馆学和情报学分离或整合发展的争论十分激烈,甚至延续至今,尽管如此,情报学科主要被吸纳入图书馆学形成图书馆情报学(LIS)发展的,目前向信息范式转变明显.在日本研究共同体的一致努力使其图书馆学情报学一体化发展没有出现过多的分歧,并逐渐向信息范式转移.在中国,图书馆学和情报学的发展同时受到欧美和苏联影响,在发展之初形成了两门学科并列发展的传统,研究共同体在二者融合发展探索中基本选择了寻求上位学科和学科群发展之路.总体上看,目前在学科名称、研究内容上,图书馆学信息化发展为图书情报学似乎已成定势.笔者认为作为研究领域,图书馆学机构范式研究依然会保存,但是信息范式研究将依然会增强.二者不是替代的关系,而是一个研究范围扩大和信息语义更突出的问题.  相似文献   

国外图书情报学期刊的零被引现象研究     

魏瑞斌  王炎 《情报杂志》2015,(7)

对 Scopus 数据库中的83种图书情报学期刊的零被引现象进行了实证研究。通过从期刊零被引论文分布、统计当年前三年的零被引论文数量与可引用论文数量等指标的相关系数两个方面进行分析发现：随着时间变化,期刊整体的零被引论文数量在不断下降,但是较为稳定的状态;大部分期刊的零被引论文数量与其发文量和可被引论文数量成正相关,少数期刊的相关性不强;零被引论文数量与篇均被引、自引论文数量、总被引次数等指标间整体上的相关性较低,甚至是负相关。  相似文献