Co-word networks are constructed with author-provided keywords in academic publications and their relations of co-occurrence. As special form of scientific knowledge networks, they represent the cognitive structure of scientific literature. This paper analyzes the complex structure of a co-word network based on 8,190 author-provided keywords extracted from 3,651 papers in five Chinese core journals in the field of management science. Small-world and scale-free phenomena are found in this network. A large-scale co-word network graph, which consists of one major giant component and many small isolated components, has been generated with the GUESS software. The dynamic growth of keywords and keyword co-occurrence relationships are described with four new informetrics measures. The results indicate that existing concepts always serve as the intellectual base of new ideas as represented by keywords.

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It has been widely recognized that academic paper citations will reflect scientific knowledge linkage. Patent citations are similar to academic paper citations in many aspects: Citation frequency distribution is often skewed; citation frequency varies from one subject field to another and authors’/inventors’preference for citing relevant literature is usually confined to their own native language. However, regardless of these seemingly similarities, the patent citation is unique and special. It is constructed by incorporating information providers from multiple sources, such as from examiners, inventors, attorneys and/or the public. It is driven by a value-orientation for the monopolization of market production under regulations of Patent Laws. It is also practiced under the sway of an industrial culture embedded with a notion of “creative destruction”. In view of the contextual complexities of patent citations, simply applying the data criteria and citation behavior analysis of academic paper citations to that of patentbibliometrics for the purpose of reflecting knowledge linkage is both conceptually and technically illogical and unreasonable. This paper attempts to delve into the issue of the currently misconceived assertions and practice about "transplanting” the methodology of academic paper citations en masse indiscriminately into the practice of patent citations. It is hoped that such a study would yield improved result stemming from the practice of patent citations for reflecting knowledge linkage in the future.

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This paper selects 998 articles as its data sources from four Chinese core journals in the field of Library and Information Science from 2003 to 2007. Some pertinent aspects of reference citations particularly from web resources are selected for a focused analysis and discussion. This includes primarily such items as the number of web citations, web citations per each article, the distribution of domain names of web citations and also certain aspects about the institutional and/or geographical affiliations of the author. The evolving situation of utilizing online networked academic information resources in China is the central thematic discussion of this study. The writing of this paper is augmented by the explicatory presentation of 3 graphic figures, 6 tables and 18 references.

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Based on a questionnaire survey, the paper made a comparative study on the changes of traditional library positions within the context of the emerging professional positions and functional units at some large academic libraries in China and in the United States from 1998 to 2007. It describes how some of the library professional positions and functional units have gone through a time period of intensified and proactive position allocation realignment in terms of their rise, decline, fission and/or fusion within the administrative context of their library’s evolving changes in missions, objectives and service delivery structure under the impact of the rapid development of information technologies. Such changes are graphically demonstrated in several charts in this paper to highlight the evolutionary development of academic librarianship in general and the waves of changes for library position reallocations in specific in the ten-year period under study. It is believed that such a study can be useful  for discerning the overall developing trend of academic librarianship, especially in the area of the rising professional and social status of academic librarianship during this period. The movement of library position allocation realignment was a corresponding response at the time to the influx of applicable information technologies to the library scene. It not only made the library operation to become “leaner and meaner,” but also gave added impetus to the rise of the professional and social status of their practitioners in the society due to the latter’s enhanced service delivery innovations and capabilities for meeting their constituencies’timely information needs more satisfactorily.

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Based on the research of theories and practices related to quality evaluation ofelectronic services (e-services) from both home and abroad and through multiple rounds ofsurveys and analyses, this article proposed an evaluation indicator system for Chinese libraries. A survey was carried out on the e-services of Shanxi Provincial Library by using SERVQUAL model. Based on the survey data, the article evaluated and analyzed the quality of Shanxi Provincial Library’s e-services by means of quadrant analysis, and put forward solutions and suggestions accordingly.

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