Библиосфера (Dec 2014)
Optimizing the acquisition of the scientific library collection with actual foreign periodicals using a bibliometric analysis
Abstract
Article contains the results of a bibliometric analysis of foreign journals using Journal Citation Report DB on ISI Web of Knowledge platform. The study was conducted in order to raise the efficiency of stock acquisition with foreign periodicals taking into account demands of the Ural Branch (UB) of RAS users. The objectives of the study was also to inform users about journals with high impact factor (IF) in fields of their research and the rating analysis of subscribed journals within subject categories. The analysis was carried out in several stages. The first stage - on the basis of requests to institutions and analysis of research directions reflected on the institution websites, lists of headings on research subjects for each institution were prepared. Headings were compared with a list of subject categories in the JCR DB and a single list of subject headings in English was formed to avoid discrepancy in translation. The second stage - for each of the selected subject category of a list of 10 journals with a high IF for 2011 in JCR DB was unloaded. Lists of headings on research topics were done for each Institute of UB RAS. Investigation results permitted us to analyze the acquisition effectiveness with foreign periodicals in the scientific library, to identify new ranking journals on of research directions of UB RAS institutions and new trends of acquisition analyzing ratings journals of different subject categories, to clarify the information needs of users in actual foreign periodicals. The bibliometric analysis approach requires considerable labor and time costs, but is a useful auxiliary tool for the effective stock acquisition of the scientific library.
