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Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Higher Vocational Education Based on CiteSpace

Based on the CiteSpace, the core Chinese journals in CNKI general library from 2005 to September 2020 were searched, 2855 papers on innovation and entrepreneurship were obtained and analyzed. The development of innovation and entrepreneurship in Higher Vocational Education in China was objectively analyzed by drawing the knowledge map of the research authors, research institutions and research topics in this field. The results show that the research authors and research institutions form less cooperation, in the research institutions, with the increasing number of coastal economic development zones, vocational education innovation and entrepreneurship research main force to the relatively developed areas of the transfer. Research is carried out on hot issues such as political education, modern apprenticeship system and the integration of dictatorship. It is suggested that we should continue to strengthen the research on the integration of “proprietary” and pay attention to the improvement of the curriculum system and teaching methods according to local conditions. The specific content of innovation and entrepreneurship education should be improved to diversify innovation and entrepreneurship.

북한소설 『벗』 영역본의 명시화 전략 분석: 감정표현을 중심으로

As a North Korean novel, Friend, was selected as one of The Best World Literature of 2020 by Library Journal, an American trade publication for librarians, and was promoted as a Korean book that sold the most copies in France, the North Korean literature is gaining attention in the literary field. According to the cultural identification proposed by Edward T. Hall, the North Korean language and culture belong to high-context culture that exhibits less-direct verbal and nonverbal communication, whereas English and the English-speaking culture belong to low-context culture that relies heavily on explicit verbal skills for communication. Hence, when the North Korean novel is translated into English, the indirect or implicit messages need to be explicitly enunciated for greater understanding of the readers in the English-speaking culture. Out of many cultural elements that require explicitation, emotional expressions deserve a detailed investigation, since how accurately the emotions are translated holds a lot of sway over the comprehension and acceptance of the novel transferred from a different culture. Therefore, this study analyzes and categorizes the expilcitation strategies employed in the translation of Friend and seeks implications for translation of emotional expressions from high-context to low-context culture.

Impact of Diabetic Ketoacidosis on Thyroid Function in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus.

Background Changes in thyroid function in diabetes patients who developed diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) still need to be fully elucidated. The aim of this study was to systematically review available data on the relationship between thyroid function and DKA in diabetes patients who developed DKA. Methods Electronic databases (PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and China Academic Journal Full-text Database (CNKI)) were searched systematically to search relevant literature before December 2020. The mean ± standard deviation and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were used for evaluation, and sensitivity analysis was performed. Publication bias was estimated by funnel plot, Egger's test, and Begger's test. Results 29 studies were included in the meta-analysis, and the indicators (T4, T3, FT3, FT4, TSH, T3RU, and rT3) of patients with DKA were compared and analyzed. The results of this study showed that the levels of T4, T3, FT3, FT4, and TSH were decreased and the level of rT3 was increased in patients with DKA. Compared with after treatment, the levels of T4, T3, FT3, and FT4 in patients with DKA were decreased before treatment, while the levels of rT3 were increased, and there was no significant difference in changes of TSH. With the aggravation of DKA, the levels of T4, T3, FT3, and FT4 will further decrease, while the changes of TSH have no statistical difference. Conclusion Thyroid function changed in diabetic patients with DKA. It changed with the severity of DKA. This condition may be transient, preceding further recovery of DKA.

Citation Study of Selected Indian LIS Journals using Google Scholar

As reflected in Google Scholar, the citations obtained by the articles published during 2015-2019 in the three leading Indian LIS journals entitled SRELS, DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology (DJLIT) and JILA have been analysed in the present study. The study mainly covers year-wise publication of articles and the citations received by these articles, calculation of immediacy index, h-index and impact factor, authorship pattern, collaboration trend, highly cited papers, most prolific authors and citation report. The finding of the study reveals that average number of articles published in DJLIT and ALIS are same and the articles published in DJLIT have received maximum number of citations followed by SRELS. It is also found that impact factor for DJLIT was almost 2 in 2019 whereas it was less than 1 for SRELS and JILA during the marked period.

Researching Data Sets to Develop State Library Standards

California developed standards for library program factors that provide the conditions for students to meet library standard outcomes. To base those program standards empirically, the researchers analyzed three 2008-9 reputable data sets: California’s school library data set, AASL’s School Libraries Count data set, and a national School Library Journal data set. Standards were clustered into two sections: baseline factors, and statistical standards for resources. Findings revealed that school libraries that met the “baseline” standard were significantly different from those libraries that did not meet those standards. Once the baseline set of factors were determined, descriptive and correlational statistics were applied to the data sets, with the resultant figures based on the average figures supplied by those libraries that met the baseline factors.

Authorship Trends of Research Articles Published in Seven Scientific, Technical, Engineering, and Medical (STEM) Library Journals: Analysis of STEM Library Research from 2016 to 2019 Update

ABSTRACT Authorship patterns of research articles published in seven Scientific, Technical, Engineering, and Medical (STEM) library science journals have been examined previously for the five years from 2011 to 2015 by using bibliometric techniques. This study has now been updated for the years from 2016 to 2019 by analyzing 590 research articles. The same journals: Science & Technology Libraries, Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Journal of eScience Librarianship, Journal of Hospital Librarianship, Journal of the Medical Library Association, Medical Reference Services Quarterly, and Health Information and Libraries Journal, were studied. Some of the variables we have examined in both samples include (1) authorship, (2) affiliation, (3) country of origin, and (4) topic of the research articles. The findings presented a unique opportunity to determine the current state of art in STEM librarianship research by using the most recent data gathered from seven prominent STEM library science journals.

CONTRIBUTION OF EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS TO JOURNAL’S SCHOLARLY OUTPUT

Editorial board members (EBMs) of academic journals have been frequently studied for better understanding the principles of their functioning, impact on editorial policy, publication ethics, and entire scientific progress. One of the promising trends is to quantitatively evaluate the contribution of EBMs to the scholarly output of parent journals. This paper represents the results of the study on publication activity of editorial board members of the Russian Library and Information Science journals. To detect a share of papers by EBMs in the journal’s scholarly output, we studied a share of EBMs papers in parent journals and other sources. Generally, we detected the active participation of EBMs in increasing scholarly output of parent journals. We also studied the publication activity of foreign members of EBMs in Russian journals that turned out to bedramatically low. Formal involvement of foreign researchers to enhance the level of journal’s internationalization may explain this situation. It is shown, that the fact of publication fails to significantly impact on journal’s ranking positions. The scientific quality of EBMs papers has proved to be of higher value: in case of high quality of EBMs papers, the number of readers and citations start to increase. On the other hand, uncited papers by EBMs have the lowest or even negative effect on the journal’s rank. The findings can be of interest to editors-in-chief and founders of academic journals.

Assessing journals in library and information studies based on altmetrical indicators

Altmetrical indicators are characterized in brief; their advantages, disadvantages and applicability in assessing periodicals are examined. The authors attempt to define the significance of library journals based on the alternative metrics of views and loadings. Essential data are obtained from Russian Science Citation Index database. The selection of publications under examination is substantiated. The low-cited publications and those RSCI provide insufficient data on, were not considered. The comparison is made; the mostly cited, viewed and loaded journals are identified for the years 2013-2017. The key study tasks are to identify citation, view and loading level for each journal; to reveal correlation between loadings and citations and to evaluate its closeness. The main advantages of altmetrical indicators are: responsiveness, open access, wide coverage of sources. The reasons are discussed why the high-cited publications correspond to the limited number of loadings. This correspondence enables to suggest that the higher the number of loadings, the more significant it is. The authors suggest using number of loadings to reveal the most authoritative publications when developing library collections. They also suggest that the role of altmetrics will be increasing.

Publications by editorial board of science journals as translated into bibliometric indicators (library and information science)

The authors attempt to determine publishing contribution of editorial board members (EBM) into the rating of their parent journals as exemplified by Russian journals in library and information sciences divided into low-, middle-, and top-rank groups. To determine this contribution, we studied EBM scholarly input to their parent journals vs. to other sources; besides, the scholarly input by EBM and other authors in each journal was compared. No correlation between the journal rank and share of EBM’s publications in their parent journals and/or EBM’s citations of their journal, or correlation between the journal rank and share of EBM papers in the respective journal were detected. However, the positive correlation was revealed between the journal rank and share of foreign EBM, regardless of their scholarly input in their parent journal. The analysis of citation of EBM papers in their journals, as well as the analyses of their journal citations provided by EBM in other sources, demonstrates significant impact of EBM on bibliometric indices of top- and low-rank journals implying active involvement of EBM in the development of their parent serials. The lowest or even negative impact of EBM on journal rank was identified among the middle-rank group of journals since their papers were poorly (if ever) cited. Thus, formal inclusion of experts into editorial boards of those journals and low interest they take in their journal may be assumed. Our findings contribute to scientometric studies of editorial boards and may be of interest to editors-in-chief and founders of journals.

The Discontinuation of Journals in Library, Information and Publication World, and After Care Trial for Those

The Discontinuation of Journals in Library, Information and Publication World, and After Care Trial for Those

I Side with Myself. I Touch My Face

I Side with Myself. I Touch My Face Christopher Kondrich (bio) without realizing it, absently, hundreds of timeseach day. A human face I do not notice is there. When I touch it, I hardly registerthe sensation. In the film Onibaba, a woman fears abandonment, being leftto kill stray soldiers by herself, and so to scare her widowed daughter-in-law into staying,dons a mask. A horned mask, demonic, leering eternally. It is raining when she wears itand the rain makes it stick to her face. This is meant to be a punishment for her deception. She choosesto wear the mask, after all. She knows she is wearing it. This is why it disguises her.As I watch her claw at the mask, desperately trying to pry it from her face, I touch my own.Somewhat blemished and unshaven. A mask you do not know you are wearing is a mask that disguisesthe world. Tosses a sheet over it. Now could be anything under there. I will tell youthis. Fear is taught. You are taught what to be fearful of, as much as you can carryand not be paralyzed or so weighed down [End Page 176] that you cannot lash out or unlatchthe bedroom window as smoke seeps in below the door. Something does not need to shrinkfor it to grow smaller. As a room fills with smoke, it is relieved of habitable space.Fear is like that. It collects in the body and you have to crawl on the floor of yourselfto breathe. Thalassophobia billows dense and black above me. So too my fearof every bristle of hair on a tarantula, every millipede leg, every talonpiercing a hide, every fang, every dewclaw has been wafting steadily under the door,through the half inch needed for it to open properly. It isn't my fault. Nothing isever stricken from the record. What I fear is a record of who I am. [End Page 177] Christopher Kondrich Christopher Kondrich is the author of Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), selected by Jericho Brown as a winner of the National Poetry Series, by Library Journal as a Best Poetry Book of 2019, and as a finalist for the Believer Book Award in Poetry, as well as the book-length poem Contrapuntal (Free Verse Editions, 2013). Recent poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Believer, Bennington Review, Paris Review, and Poetry Northwest. He teaches creative writing at George Washington University and is an associate editor for 32 Poems. Copyright © 2021 Middlebury College

Zahtevi i potrebe za titlovanjem audio-vizuelnih sadržaja namenjenih gluvim i nagluvim učenicima

Caption technology for deaf and hard of hearing translates the same spoken language into written language, including not only a textual recording of speech but also a description of background sounds. The literature states that the effects of captioned audio-visual content are conditioned by the level and speed of reading and that the understanding of the captioned material depends on the complexity of the text as well. The central question regarding captioning for deaf and hard of hearing is whether to literally translate audio recordings or to adapt them. While the deaf prefer the first option, research findings show that comprehension is greater if the text is simplified. The aim of the research was to determine the contribution of captioning to the understanding of audio-visual content among deaf and hard of hearing pupils of different levels of education by reviewing recent literature in this field. Papers related to the contribution of captioning to the understanding of content in deaf and hard of hearing pupils were primarily searched through the Google Scholar database in order to narrow the research to journals with the largest number of papers on this topic: American Annals of Deaf, Brain Sciences, Deafness & Educational International, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Philosophy and Practice, The Journal of Specialized Translation Library. Ten papers that met the selection criteria were analyzed, with the largest number of papers focusing on primary school pupils. A statistically significant advantage in understanding captions with custom translation was found in one analyzed study, while the results of the other authors were statistically significant only in the domain of vocabulary, in the effects of captions vs. audio-visual content and in the effects of captions vs. sign language translation. The use of captioned material in the implementation of curriculum of many school subjects would provide important information that could improve the quality of teaching for deaf and hard of hearing pupils whether they attend inclusive or residential schools.

Text mining and word cloud analysis of the articles published in selected library and information science journals over the past decade

Text mining and word cloud analysis of the articles published in selected library and information science journals over the past decade

Bibliometric Analysis of Papers Published in Special and Regular Issues of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) during 1992–2019: A Comparative Study

Bibliometric Analysis of Papers Published in Special and Regular Issues of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) during 1992–2019: A Comparative Study

Research Performance of Indian LIS Faculties from Central Universities: A Scientometric Exploration through the Lens of Web of Science (WoS)

This study explores the research performance of LIS faculties from Central Universities of India through Web of Science using scientometric indicators. It was observed that there were 81 LIS faculties working in 17 Central Universities in India. A total of 157 unique publications were retrieved belonging to 42 LIS faculties from 14 Central Universities. BibliometrixR and VOSviewer were used for analyzing and visualization of data retrieved from WoS. Mukherjee B, of BHU, emerged as the most influential author (faculty) of LIS in terms of publications, citations, h-index and g-index. BHU was the most productive Central University in terms of LIS research. DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology emerged out as the most productive source for LIS research while Scientometrics was the most cited source. “India” and its related terms were central to LIS research as observed from Author’s keyword analysis.

RETRACTED: Erratum to “Research on China Academic Library and Information System” [Open Access Library Journal, 2020, Volume 7: e6689

The original online version of this article (Yi, L. (2020) Research on the Beijing Academic Library & Information System. Open Access Library Journal, 7: e6692. https://doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1106692) unfortunately contains some mistakes. The author wishes to correct the errors in the following version:

RETRACTED: Erratum to “Research on the Beijing Academic Library and Information System” [Open Access Library Journal, 2020, Volume 7: e6692

RETRACTED: Erratum to “Research on the Beijing Academic Library and Information System” [Open Access Library Journal, 2020, Volume 7: e6692

RETRACTED: The Asymptotic Expansions of the Largest Eigenvalues in the Presence of a Finite Number of Inclusions

Short Retraction Notice This paper has been retracted from Open Access Library Journal (OALibJ) according to authors’ withdrawal request. The Editorial Board would like to extend its sincere apology for any inconvenience this withdrawal may have caused. The full retraction notice in PDF is preceding the original paper, which is marked RETRACTED.

Bilgi Dünyası Dergisi: 2000-2019 Dönemi için Makale, Yazar ve Konu Unsurları Açısından Niceliksel Bir Değerlendirme

Bilgi Dünyası Türkiye’de kütüphanecilik (bilgi ve belge yönetimi) alanının en önemli bilimselmesleki dergilerinden birisidir. 20 yıldır sürdürdüğü yayın yaşamı ile kütüphane bilimine ve mesleğine destek olmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Bilgi Dünyası dergisinin 2000-2019 dönemi itibariyle yayın türleri, yazar ve konu unsurları açısından sayısal analizini yapmaktır. Betimleme yöntemi ile gerçekleştirilen çalışma kapsamında 20 yıl içinde yayımlanan 40 sayıda yer alan hakemli makale, tanıtım-eleştiri ve görüş yazıları incelenmiştir. Çalışma sonucunda, Bilgi Dünyası dergisinde 2000-2019 yılları arasında toplam 360 yazar tarafından 229’u hakemli makale, 97’si tanıtım-eleştiri, 88’i görüş ve 22’si diğer türde yazılar olmak üzere toplam 436 yazı yayımlandığı anlaşılmıştır. Dergide her sayı başına ortalama 5,5 hakemli makale yayımlanmıştır. Derginin makale sayısındaki yıllık değişimlerin belirli bir dengede olmadığı ve yıllık konusal değişmelerin de büyük ölçüde yazarların uzmanlık alanlarına ve kütüphanecilik alanında yeni ortaya çıkan konulara bağlı olarak değişim gösterdiği anlaşılmıştır. Çalışmanın sonunda, dergi yönetim yapısının profesyonelleştirilmesi ve kurumsallaştırılmasının stratejik bir hedef olarak değerlendirilmesi önerilmiştir.

Librarian Authors Appear to Favour Open Access Journals, while Academic Authors Appear to Favour Non-Open Access Journals

A Review of: Chang, Y.-W. (2017). Comparative study of characteristics of authors between open access and non-open access journals in library and information science. Library & Information Science Research, 39(1), 8-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2017.01.002 Abstract Objective – To compare the characteristics of authors publishing in open access and non-open access library and information science (LIS) journals. Design – Comparative analysis of published journal articles. Setting – Academic journals. Subjects – Articles published in selected LIS journals between 2008-2013. Methods – Journals included in the Library Science and Information Science category in the 2012 edition of Journal Citation Reports and those listed in the Library and Information Science category of the Directory of Open Access Journals as of May 2013 were included in the analysis. Articles were examined and coded for author occupation, academic rank, and type of collaboration. Main Results – The author analyzed 1,807 articles from 20 open access journals and 1,665 articles from 13 non-open access journals. An unknown number of articles were excluded because they lacked required author information. Over half (53.9%) of the authors who published in the open access journals were practitioners. Over half (58.1%) of the authors who published in the non-open access journals were academics. Librarian-librarian collaboration was the most common type (38.6%) of collaboration found in the open access journals. Academic-academic collaboration was the most common type (34.1%) of collaboration found in the non-open access journals. Collaboration between librarians and academics was seen in 20.5% of open access articles and 13.2% of non-open access articles. Conclusion – In general, librarian-authored research was found more often in open access journals, while the “latest research topics and ideas” (p. 14) were found most often in non-open access journals.