Byrd G D
Health Sciences Library, State University of New York at Buffalo 14214, USA.
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1999 Jul;87(3):312-21.
This 1990-1991 study explored the relationship between the size of health sciences library journal collections and the number of different journals cited by medical school faculty in departments of biochemistry and medicine.
Two regression equations, including variables associated with a national stratified sample of 622 faculty who published articles during those two years, were used to explore factors correlated with variations in faculty use of the journal literature and faculty publishing productivity.
Results suggest that, after controlling for other variables in the models, neither the number of different journals those faculty cited, nor the number of articles they published, had statistically significant correlations with the number of journals in the health sciences library collection.
The traditional view that the size of an academic health sciences library's journal collection is a good measure of how well that library is positioned to support faculty research may not be entirely accurate.
这项1990 - 1991年的研究探讨了健康科学图书馆期刊馆藏规模与医学院生物化学和医学系教师引用的不同期刊数量之间的关系。
使用两个回归方程,其中包括与在这两年发表文章的622名教师的全国分层样本相关的变量,以探究与教师对期刊文献的使用差异和教师发表生产力相关的因素。
结果表明,在控制模型中的其他变量后,这些教师引用的不同期刊数量以及他们发表的文章数量与健康科学图书馆馆藏中的期刊数量均无统计学上的显著相关性。
传统观点认为学术健康科学图书馆的期刊馆藏规模是衡量该图书馆支持教师研究能力的良好指标,这一观点可能并不完全准确。