Nongye tushu qingbao xuebao (Apr 2023)
Comparison and Analysis of Library's Participation in Scientific Culture Construction
Abstract
[Pupose/Significance] The library community can contribute greatly to scientific culture construction. This paper aims tosystematically analyze the connotation of scientific culture construction and explore the potential space where libraries can participate inscientific culture construction. give some enlightenment to libraries in our country.[MethodProcess] This research adopts the methodsof literature research, network research and systematic literature review.First,this study extracts Chinese keywords based on the Chineseliterature about "scientific culture" and analyzes its connotations. Ssecond it builds a list of English and Chinese keywords containing thesub concepts of "scientific culture". After retrieving, classifying and reading the literature about practice of libraries' participation inscientific culture construction carefully,this study compares the practice of Euro-American libraries and Chinese libraries, and putsforward countermeasures and suggestions for Chinese libraries to bridge the gap.[ResultsiConclusions] Scientific culture includes threelayers: scientific culture as basic literacy, scientific culture as research ethics and scientific culture as workplace culture of researchers.Libraries can play an important role to support all of them.However, considering the present situation,Chinese public libraries aresignificantly insufficient in participating in the constructing of scientific culture as basic literacy.University libraries are the main actorsin constucting scientific culture as research ethics and scientific culture as workplace culture of researchers, but the practical results didnot meet expectations. The important problems include few researchers embrace data management and planning, few researchers payattntion to the reproducibility crisis, research integrity education is not enough, and research evaluation services is a lack of standards. Leaming from the experience of other foreign libraries and combining the situation of Chinese libraries, this study proposes that Chinesepublic libraries can increase their participation in scientific culture construction through promoting ideology, strengthening links with thescientific community, increasing the proportion of STEM activities, absorbing ethics related courses, and carrying out citizen science andother comprehensive science popularization activities. Chinese academic libraries can provide the acadenmic integrity support service of"trinity of facilities, resources and services". Besides that, the construction of the academic evaluation service standard of academiclibraries and practicing responsible scientific measurement can maintain the faimess of the academic workplace so as to promote thescientific culture as research ethics and scientific culture as workplace culture of researchers. Our future work will conduct thematicresearch around the medium and micro levels of scientific culture. The preliminary direction is the standard of responsible scientificmeasurement.
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