Delgado López-Cózar E
Departamento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Facultad de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad de Granada.
Rev Esp Salud Publica. 1997 Nov-Dec;71(6):531-46.
Because standardization is important to ensure the successful transfer of scientific information, compliance with international standards for the presentation of periodicals in 205 Spanish biomedical journals, with the aim of improving their quality as instruments of information transfer, is evaluated.
Journals were identified by consulting five printed bibliographies and four electronic databases. A total of 136 parameters of evaluation for the presentation of periodicals derived from ISO (International Standardization Organization) standards (86%) and recommendations published by UNESCO, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, The Council of Biology Editors, and EJ Huth (14%) were evaluated. Three features (inclusion, presentation and location) were recorded for most data item, and the total number of items studied was 342.
The rate of compliance with standards in Spanish biomedical journals was 33.5% +/- 8.5 (DE). Compliance was highest for items related with the identification of the journal in the text pages and the issue contents list. The lowest rates of compliance were found for items related the volume and the abstract sheet. The worst standardized journals were those published by private firms and public administration organizations. As a group, journals published annually were the best standardized.
The low rate of compliance with standards did not reflect inadequate compliance with all items, but was rather the result of complete noncompliance with particular standards, especially those relating to the abstract sheet, volume front cover, volume contents list and volume index. To improve compliance a change in the policies governing the availability of standards, the preparation of guides and manuals for scientific periodical publishing, and the development of training programs aimed at authors, editors, publishers, librarians and information scientists, is suggested.
由于标准化对于确保科学信息的成功传递至关重要，因此对205种西班牙生物医学期刊在期刊呈现方面符合国际标准的情况进行了评估，目的是提高它们作为信息传递工具的质量。
通过查阅五本印刷版书目和四个电子数据库来识别期刊。对源自ISO（国际标准化组织）标准（86%）以及联合国教科文组织、国际医学期刊编辑委员会、生物学编辑委员会和EJ·胡特发布的建议（14%）的共计136个期刊呈现评估参数进行了评估。大多数数据项记录了三个特征（收录、呈现和位置），研究的项目总数为342个。
西班牙生物医学期刊的标准符合率为33.5%±8.5（DE）。与文本页面中期刊标识和期内容列表相关的项目符合率最高。与卷和摘要页相关的项目符合率最低。标准化最差的期刊是由私人公司和公共行政组织出版的。总体而言，每年出版的期刊标准化程度最高。
标准符合率低并非反映对所有项目的遵守不足，而是完全不遵守特定标准的结果，特别是与摘要页、卷封面、卷内容列表和卷索引相关的标准。为了提高符合率，建议改变标准获取政策，编写科学期刊出版指南和手册，并针对作者、编辑、出版商、图书馆员和信息科学家开展培训项目。
