Information Science Roles in the Emerging Field of Data Science

There has long been discussion about the distinctions of library science,information science,and informatics,and how these areas differ and overlap with computer science.Today the term data science is emerging that generates excitement and questions about how it relates to and differs from these other areas of study.

Research and Evolution Based on Library and Information Science in China

Contemporary society is an information society with highly developed information.Its network and digital characteristics are bringing tremendous changes to the whole society.China's library and information science is no exception,and its research content is also expanding.It is a core journal that can reflect the actual situation of research in the subject area and conduct academic exchange as an authoritative representative of a certain subject area.Therefore,it is of great practical significance to conduct comprehensive research based on the development history of library and information science,quantitative and qualitative analysis of academic journal articles,research related topics and keywords,not only to further understand library and information science,but also to accumulate knowledge of library and information science,and also through scientific development trend,based on the experience summarized by the predecessors,allows us to more fully recognize the important role of library science and information science,and to improve the theoretical literacy and research level of relevant researchers.At this stage,it is even more necessary for researchers to look at and study library and information science with a developmental perspective?Based on this,the article mainly analyzes the research significance of library and information science,and analyzes the output of China,s library and information science journals.It uses Ucinet software to visualize the main research hotspots,and finally analyzes the dynamic factors affecting the research of library and information science in China in order to provide a reference.

An overview on the development of Chinese library and information science journals

This paper gives an overview of the history and the present status of Chinese library and information science journals, and introduces the operation and management of Chinese library and information science journals by taking Journal of Library Science In China, Library and Information Service, Journal of Academic Libraries, and Journal of Information Science as examples. Besides, six suggestions are given for the future development of Chinese library and information science journals.

An Informetric analysis of web citation in Chinese journals of Library and Information Science in recent years

This paper selects 998 articles as its data sources from four Chinese core journals in the field of Library and Information Science from 2003 to 2007.Some pertinent aspects of reference citations particularly from web resources are selected for a focused analysis and discussion.This includes primarily such items as the number of web citations,web citations per each article,the distribution of domain names of web citations and also certain aspects about the institutional and/or geographical affiliations of the author.The evolving situation of utilizing online networked academic information resources in China is the central thematic discussion of this study.The writing of this paper is augmented by the explicatory presentation of 3 graphic figures,6 tables and 18 references.

Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science

(CJLIS,Chinese Title:《中国文献情报》)ISSN 1674-3393,CN 11570/G2;Price:$US 199/Volume Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science(CJLIS)is the first and only Englishlanguage academic journal in the field of Library and Information Science(LIS)that has been published in China’s mainland so far.It aims to establish a platform for students,researchers and professionals in LIS and archive science to engage in intellectual dialogs and to share best professional practices of their experience.

Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science(CJLIS) 正式更名为Journal of Data and Information Science(JDIS)

经国内外专家深入探讨和反复论证,经主管、主办单位同意,经国家新闻出版广电总局正式批准(新广出审[2015]1187号文),由中国科学院文献情报中心主办的Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science(《中国文献情报(英)》,CJLIS)将于2016年起正式更名为Journal of Data and Information Science(《数据与情报科学学报(英)》,JDIS)。作为国内唯一的图书馆学情报学领域英文学术期刊,CJLIS自2008年创刊以来,以刊发符合国际规范的高水平学术研究论文、推动中国图书馆学情报学学科发展为己任,组织优秀稿源、坚守学术规范、推动开放获取、严控评议流程,赢得了业界的充分肯定和广

What Does Information Science Offer for Data Science Research?:A Review of Data and Information Ethics Literature

This paper reviews literature pertaining to the development of data science as a discipline,current issues with data bias and ethics,and the role that the discipline of information science may play in addressing these concerns.Information science research and researchers have much to offer for data science,owing to their background as transdisciplinary scholars who apply human-centered and social-behavioral perspectives to issues within natural science disciplines.Information science researchers have already contributed to a humanistic approach to data ethics within the literature and an emphasis on data science within information schools all but ensures that this literature will continue to grow in coming decades.This review article serves as a reference for the history,current progress,and potential future directions of data ethics research within the corpus of information science literature.

Visual Exploration Research in the Field of Library and Information Based on Co-occurrence Analysis

Towards current modern society,our country’s library and information science is not only rapid development,but it also has won the favor of many researchers in more than a decade of development.Due to new technology elements and methods are widely used in the discipline of library and information science,cause society our country’s library and information science has entered a new stage with the development of information industry.This paper is based on the research theory of co-occurrence analysis,clustering co-occurrence analysis of references,social network co-occurrence analysis from researchers and research institutions of the field of library and information science,to have more precise and in depth research on the research focus of the library and information science,the authors themselves and the research institutions circumstances over the past few years.At the same time,the theory is used to analyze the effects and analysis of accurate data,to ensure that researchers can analyze the theory of library and information science for a long time.

Enriching online access to health information for the public: Efforts from a medical library in China

Purpose: Disseminating medical and health information is a mission of a public medical library. This paper describes a practice of a medical library in providing online access to health information for the general public.Design/methodology/approach: A four-step workflow is developed to integrate and disseminate heterogeneous health information from medical associations. First, a raw data repository is developed to manage the original submissions from information providers.Second, each document in the raw data repository is represented in a standardized XML schema. Third, the medical terms are identified and manually annotated, enriching the semantics of health information. Lastly, all the semantically enriched XML documents are converted to HTMLs for online dissemination.Findings: A health information website, CHealth, was developed for Chinese speakers. It provides free online access for all without any login or IP constrains. CHealth is available at www.chealth.org.cn.Research limitations: The current workflow is time-consuming and labor-intensive due to the lack of information submission/exchange standard and commonly agreed-on consumer health terminology in Chinese.Originality/value: In this work, the target audience of the medical library has been extended from traditional academic/professional to the general public. Methodologies in library sciences have been combined with those in consumer health informatics in CHealth development.

The Educational Role of Library: Information Literacy, Competence, and Standards

This paper deals with the educational role of library, especially university library, and in connection to this, information literacy, competence, and standards in information science. Microcomputers and their current application allow students to use them in laboratories, lecture halls, and libraries;software that are so developed that they allow to various types of computers (micros, picos, or hand-held computers) easy integration with larger systems. In this context libraries, as institutions become one of several available nodes in the information network, the new organization of teaching requires that teachers and students are computer literate requires libraries to provide methods and techniques for handling, through expert systems, their diverse searches, and similar (video disc, for example). Along with terms informatics and information science, there is also the term informatology which denotes theory and practice of emission, transmission, accumulation, selection, and absorption of information, the so-called ETAKSA complex. This paper, therefore, will be discussed communication and communication processes in university libraries that take place using new types of media, which we jointly referred to as information science and in the sea of definitions;we can say that we have added another.

Adjusting the information service strategies according to users' requirements—A survey of the library users' information requirements in the four library systems of Zhejiang province

Based on a survey of the circumstances of the information requirements in social science from more than 3,800 library users in 48 libraries of the four major library systems in Zhejiang Province,this paper analyzes the present main characteristics of the users' requirements to the social science document information and puts forward some proposals for adjusting the document information service strategies for the library and information institutions.

Introduction to information seeking behavior—A review of literature and field practice directions

The article tries to discover the major authors in the field of information seeking behavior via social network analysis. It is to be accomplished through a literature review and also by focusing on a graphic map showing the seven most productive coauthors in this field. Based on these seven authors' work, five probable research directions about information seeking behavior are discerned and presented.

Information literacy course design based on student survey: The practice of subject librarians at NSL, CAS

Purpose: This paper aims to explore best practices in academic and research libraries in providing information literacy(IL) instruction to science and engineering graduate students.Design/methodology/approach: Using the questionnaire survey method, we conducted an IL assessment study on 114 graduate students enrolling in graduate courses offered by College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(GUCAS).Findings: The current situation of graduate students' IL competencies and the need to develop them are revealed. An IL course was designed by subject librarians of National Science Library(NSL), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), with three patterns addressing the development of graduate students' IL competencies.Research limitations: It is only about the practice of subject librarians at NSL, CAS, in designing IL courses for graduate students enrolling in graduate courses offered by College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, GUCAS.Practical implications: The results can provide a lot of useful information for the improvement of IL competencies of graduate students in science and technology disciplines.Originality/value: It is significant for assisting future subject librarians in incorporating IL skills into their course, especially for academic and research librarians to prepare and develop IL courses for science and engineering graduate students.

基于Web of Science的中国图书情报学科研成果调研与分析

本文以WoS数据库收录的中国图书情报学科研成果2482篇为研究对象,从各年文献量、著者、地区与机构、来源期刊与主题等方面进行了分析。研究发现,我国图书情报学者被WoS收录的文献数量在总体上呈上升趋势,如今正处于快速发展阶段;以罗纳德.鲁索(Rousseau.R)为代表的相关外国研究人员与我国学者建立了友好的合作关系,但目前我国图情界无论是在对外,还是在国内地区之间,合作数量与合作范围仍有待进一步提升;知识管理、信息检索、科学计量学、数字图书馆、高校图书馆、电子商务与电子政务等成为我国图情界学者们的重点关注主题。

论阮氏“图书馆学五定律”在Information Commons构建中的运用——Information Commons构建的理论基础研究之一

文章简单概述了阮氏五定律对图书馆事业发展的历史贡献,从IC理念、结构功能、服务内容、运行管理模式等几个方面详细分析了IC建设所蕴含的阮氏五定律内涵,并在此基础上作出"IC建设与发展离不开阮氏五定律"的论断。

数字图书馆中Web of science数据库的解读与应用

ISI(Institute for Scientific Information、科学情报研究所),为世界著名的学术信息出版机构。Web of Sci-ence是ISI建设的SCI,SSCI,A&HCI,CPCI-S和ISSHP五大引文数据库的Web版,涵盖了自然科学、工程技术、社会科学、艺术与人文等领域。重点解读了Web of science数据库内容、主要功能、使用特点和全文获取途径,并就Web of science数据库在科研工作中的应用潜力进行了阐述和拓展,试图为数字图书馆发展和信息生态持续提供重要参考。

融会与创新:Community Informatics在中国的本土化发展——从Library trends的专辑Community Informatics in China谈起

美国图书馆学刊物《图书馆趋势》推出的中国社群信息学专辑是中美学者合作推介CI落地中国的诸多努力的结果,专辑展现了中国的社会信息化研究状况,反映了中国学者开展CI研究的自觉意识,是CI的中国本土化发展的良好开端。在CI的中国本土化建设中,应注意相关术语的中西方对接,关注CI与LIS的连接,还应重视案例保存与分享,践行CI研究伦理,注重国际视野与本土意识相结合。

APEC成员图书情报领域科学基金资助及论文产出定量分析——基于Web of Science平台

基于Web of Science平台,对APEC成员在图书情报领域2008—2014年（不完全统计）资助的基金论文进行了数据调查和定量分析,旨在为我国科学基金制度的完善发展和图书情报学科资助策略的制定提供一些有益的参考。通过对基金论文比、总被引量、篇均被引频次、篇均资助方数等指标的研究发现：在图书情报领域,APEC成员基金论文比在6.58%~50.00%之间,篇均被引频次在1.00~6.91次之间;美国、加拿大、澳大利亚基金文献量大,基金论文比较低,篇均被引频次较高;中国、韩国、中国台湾基金文献量大,基金论文比较高,篇均被引频次较低;多方资助现象较为普遍,通常以某一个或两个资助方为主导;基金论文被引存在非正态分布现象。

基于CiteSpace的Web of Science图书情报领域的主题探测

为了解近五年图书情报学在SCI优质期刊中的研究主流及研究热点,提供借鉴及潜在研究方向,本研究提取Web of Science中2018年Journal Citation Reports排名靠前的期刊上发表的论文及其引文数据,应用“DEAN”数据清洗流程,借助CiteSpace软件进行分析并绘制可视化图谱,分别从发文机构、著者、研究热点等角度对国际图书情报学研究状态及成果进行分析识别,分析各聚类的代表文章,归纳领域主流研究热点。

A comparative study of information diffusion in weblogs and microblogs based on social network analysis

Purpose: This paper intends to explore a quantitative method for investigating the characteristics of information diffusion through social media like weblogs and microblogs.By using the social network analysis methods,we attempt to analyze the different characteristics of information diffusion in weblogs and microblogs as well as the possible reasons of these differences.Design/methodology/approach: Using the social network analysis methods,this paper carries out an empirical study by taking the Chinese weblogs and microblogs in the field of Library and Information Science(LIS) as the research sample and employing measures such as network density,core/peripheral structure and centrality.Findings: Firstly,both bloggers and microbloggers maintain weak ties,and both of their social networks display a small-world effect. Secondly,compared with weblog users,microblog users are more interconnected,more equal and more capable of developing relationships with people outside their own social networks. Thirdly,the microblogging social network is more conducive to information diffusion than the blogging network,because of their differences in functions and the information flow mechanism. Finally,the communication mode emerged with microblogging,with the characteristics of micro-content,multi-channel information dissemination,dense and decentralized social network and content aggregation,will be one of the trends in the development of the information exchange platform in the future.Research limitations: The sample size needs to be increased so that samples are more representative. Errors may exist during the data collection. Moreover,the individual-level characteristics of the samples as well as the types of information exchanged need to be further studied.Practical implications: This preliminary study explores the characteristics of information diffusion in the network environment and verifies the feasibility of conducting a quantitative analysis of information diffusion through social media. In addition,it provides insight into the characteristics of information diffusion in weblogs and microblogs and the possible reasons of these differences.Originality/value: We have analyzed the characteristics of information diffusion in weblogs and microblogs by using the social network analysis methods. This research will be useful for a quantitative analysis of the underlying mechanisms of information flow through social media in the network environment.