The Way to Access to the Electronic Publications in China

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The Way to Access to the Electronic Publications
in China

• --Documentation Information Center of the
  Chinese Academy of Sciences (DICCAS) as an
  example
• Xiumei Wang

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• Online academic journals--the most typical
  electronic publication
• Brief introduction of DICCAS
• Electronic ways of accessing to the printed
  publications
• Basic ways of accessing to the electronic
  Publications
• Electronic information retrieval
• Some Disadvantages in Access to the Electronic
  Publication

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?Online academic journals--the most typical
electronic publication

• The traditional printed journals face
  crisis
• (1) Increasing cost and time lag limit the
  development of printed journals
• (2) Explosively increasing information demand
  in the modern electronic, information and
  knowledge dominated society force the innovation
  of the traditional journal publishing style.

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• With the development of the computer
  networking, high-density data storage and the
  telecommunication technology, the conversion from
  paper medium to the electronic world become
  possible. Online academic journals become the
  solution to the conflicts between the long
  publishing cycle and the explosive diversified
  information demands. They have advantages of fast
  dissemination, flexible issue, most up to date
  information, vivid pictures and friend interfaces
  over traditional journals.

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?Brief introduction of DICCAS

• DICCAS is the largest comprehensive sci-tech
  library and one of the largest scientific
  information centers in China with various
  functions. The holdings of DICCAS have approached
  to 5.8 million items. It is characterized by its
  systematic and abundant collections of
  periodicals, books, proceedings and sci-tech
  research reports in the fields of basic
  disciplines of natural sciences and high new
  technologies. DICCAS has also imported many
  famous foreign online database and E-journals

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• such as EBSCO, OCLC, UMI, DOLOG, etc. It pays
  close attention to the processing and description
  of all materials and offers patrons various ways
  of searching. In cooperation with related CAS
  institutions, DICCAS sponsors the establishment
  of 13 Chinese Sci-Tech Documents Database, and
  the printed form as well as CD-ROM form products
  of them are also produced. DICCAS operated the
  TOTALS integrated automation System in 1993. On
  the base of Sci-Tech Network and the NCFC, DICCAS
  established the online documents searching
  system. It provides bibliography searching,
  booking in advance, database retrieval, mirror
  database, book news, current contents, online SDI
  and interlibrary loan by use of WWW.

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?Electronic ways of accessing to the printed
publications DICCAS is almost the best
scientific research institute in library and
information science. Its service style typifies
the way of accessing the publications
electronically in China.

• How to search the books
• Electronic way to access to the printed journals
• Chinese Science Citation Database
• Documentation Supply Service

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• How to search the books
• People all over the world can access the
  collected books of DICC, Library of Beijing
  University and Library of Tsinghua University by
  Online Public Access Catalogue System at
  http//www.las.ac.cn.

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? Electronic way to access to the printed journals

• (1)Union Catalogue of Chinese Western Language
  Journals
• (2)Journal Contents System
• (3)Online Chinese Science Documentation Database.

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• (1)Union Catalogue of Chinese Western
  Language Journals
• It reports the Chinese and Western Journal
  collection of national public libraries, research
  libraries, academic libraries and university
  libraries. The Chinese database collects over
  13,000 journals and has an accumulation of 50,000
  items. The western language database collects
  over 37,000 journals and has an accumulation of
  190,000 items.

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• (2)Journal Contents System
• DICC, Chinese National Library, Jiangsu
  Academic Library Service Committee and National
  Geology Library co-bought the Current Citations
  Database 1999 of American EBSCO company which
  includes 15,000 foreign periodicals. Based on
  that, DICCAS exploits the database and offers
  patrons the periodical title service. The EBSCO
  also friendly bestowed the data of 1998 and 1997
  to us.

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• (3)Online Chinese Science Documentation
  Database
• ?Physics Database
• ?Mathematics Database
• ?Achievement Database

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?Chinese Science Citation Database

• It is a comprehensive scientific
  databases with the collection of 582 Chinese and
  English periodicals published in China since
  1989. It accumulates 420,000 records and has
  1,200,000 citation data.

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• ?Documentation Supply Service
• The Documentation Supply Center in DICCAS
  can search, copy the required various types of
  documentation for the users by letter, fax,
  E-mail. By using Ariel software, It can request
  UMI (University Microfilm International),
  National Library of UK and other many foreign
  libraries to search and copy the documents for
  the users. The center can not only copy the
  contents of specific periodical according to the
  request of users but also offer SDI service for
  users all over the country.

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?Basic ways of accessing to the electronic
Publications

• Online Information Resources Services
• Internet Navigation to the electronic journals

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• Online Information Resources Services
• (1)Elsevier Database
• (2)PQDDB Database
• (3)Cambridge Science Abstract Database
• (4)Ei Compendex Web
• (5)American ScienceMagazine Chinese Server
• (6)ChIn Web Page (International Chemical
  Information Network)

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• (1)Elsevier Database
• It was well known that the Elsevier
  Company publishes excellent academic journals. We
  have bought the permission of Elsevier Database,
  so the patrons can search the data of 1100
  journals since 1998 in the database.
• (2)PQDDB Database
• DICC bought the permission of Bell
  Howell company. The users on CASnet can retrieve
  the PQDDB database and they can access the full
  text at the wdb site.

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• (3)Cambridge Science Abstract Database
• DICC participated in a group to buy the
  database.
• Welcome the users to use it.
• (4)Ei Compendex Web
• DICC signed a contract for the use of The
  Engineering Index (produced by Engineering
  Information Inc.). It has opened to us the
  Engineering Information Village and Ei Compendex
  Web.

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• (5)American ScienceMagazine Chinese Server
  
• The electronic American ScienceMagazine
  Chinese Server was Supported and invited by
  NNSFC, National Science Technology Ministry,
  National Education Ministry and Chinese Academy
  of Sciences. It is located at the Web of Library
  of Beijing University and is opened to the
  public.

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• (6)ChIn Web Page (International Chemical
  Information Network)
• Important Chemistry information Resources
  Navigation System which is supported by UNESCO,
  NNSFC, Chemical Metallurgical Institute of CAS,
  Built by Chemical Metallurgical Institute of
  CAS. It contains many significant chemistry
  information resources.

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?Internet Navigation to the electronic journals

• By online navigation, DICCAS hyperlinks
  over 2000 online foreign journals for people to
  access them conveniently, which was sorted by the
  first letter of journal.

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?Electronic information retrieval

• The Electronic Information Retrieval
  Department of DICCAS can connect to the three
  world famous online retrieval system Dialogue,
  STN and Data-star. It also owns about 20 kinds of
  CD-ROM produced in China or abroad, which
  includes OCLC database products. Based on above,
  it can serve the diversified information demand
  of the users all over the country.

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?Some Disadvantages in Access to the Electronic
Publication

• (1) Lots of people in many fields (such as
  industry, agriculture, hospitals, mechanic
  designing, and banking) and areas (backward
  provinces, and poor areas) can't access to the
  internet.
• (2) The older people are not adaptive to
  the electronic search and browse.
• (3) Communication speed of connection to
  Internet through modem is slow.
• (4) Financial deficiency limited the
  permission range of database we bought from
  abroad.

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