Afes V B, Wrynn P E
Louis Calder Memorial Library, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101.
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1993 Jan;81(1):48-53.
A study was conducted to document the impact of biomedical journal title changes on medical libraries and to increase awareness of the reasons titles are changed. The study consisted of two parts: a survey of academic health sciences libraries in the United States and Canada and an analysis of title changes from two different years. The survey response rate was 83%. The majority of respondents commented on difficulties in identifying and processing title changes, often resulting in the delay or loss of information. The analysis revealed that a third of title changes were not justified by the journal. The study results substantiate the need to standardize title change reporting by publishers. A standard developed by the National Information Standards Organization requires publishers to conform to standardized practices for notification. This standard precisely reflects the concerns reflected in both the survey and the study of title changes, and librarians are urged to ensure that the standard is implemented by publishers.
开展了一项研究，以记录生物医学期刊刊名变更对医学图书馆的影响，并提高对刊名变更原因的认识。该研究包括两个部分：对美国和加拿大的学术健康科学图书馆进行调查，以及对两个不同年份的刊名变更进行分析。调查回复率为83%。大多数受访者提到了识别和处理刊名变更方面的困难，这常常导致信息延迟或丢失。分析表明，三分之一的刊名变更没有得到期刊的合理说明。研究结果证实了规范出版商刊名变更报告的必要性。国家信息标准组织制定的一项标准要求出版商遵守标准化的通知做法。该标准准确反映了调查和刊名变更研究中所反映的问题，敦促图书馆员确保出版商实施该标准。
