Hasil untuk "Periodicals"

Menampilkan 20 dari ~4854 hasil · dari DOAJ

JSON API
DOAJ Open Access 2024
Media representations of conflicts in Africa: the case of Russian newspapers

Elena L. Vartanova, Denis V. Dunas, Anna A. Gladkova et al.

The article analyses publications in leading Russian daily periodicals - the Komsomolskaya Pravda, Izvestia, and Kommersant newspapers - for the year 2023, which cover conflicts and confrontations of various kinds in African states. The analysis revealed that media attention is primarily focused on the political shifts that accompany the establishment of a new multipolar order on the global arena, wherein Africa is seen as a significant actor supporting Russia. Besides, Russian newspapers represent internal regional conflicts in Africa as well, though such topics are covered substantially less intensively and continuously compared to the Russia-related hostilities. This allows to conclude about the formation of positive media representations of Africa even in negative contexts, i.e. against the conflict-prone background. The agenda built around Africa is marked by Russia-centricity, and the issues of African region are viewed through the lens of the Russian context.

Literature (General)
DOAJ Open Access 2024
Intermediary Translations of Children’s Literature in Armenian Periodicals of the 19th Century

Varduhi Baloyan

This article is dedicated to the study of intermediary translations of children’s literature into Eastern Armenian in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. Juvenile Periodicals such as Aghbyur and Hasker were prominent publications during the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century and featured a wide range of literary works, including translations of foreign literature. This study is focused on the translations of English literature, however, other languages are also considered. These periodicals, along with others, were important sources of literature and education for Armenian children. They contributed to the development of Armenian children’s literature, fostered a love for reading, and played a vital role in preserving Armenian cultural identity. Additionally, Armenian authors and educators adapted and retold European children’s stories to make them more accessible and relatable to Armenian audiences. This practice allowed for the cultural exchange of ideas and the incorporation of foreign literature into the Armenian literary landscape.

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
DOAJ Open Access 2021
Cardiovascular Safety of Antifracture Medications in Patients With Osteoporosis: A Narrative Review of Evidence From Randomized Studies

Alexander J Rodríguez, Bo Abrahamsen

ABSTRACT Osteoporosis and cardiovascular (CV) disease share common risk factors and pathophysiology. Low bone mineral density (BMD) and fractures appear to increase the risk for multiple CV diseases. Equally, prevalent CV disease appears to predispose to bone loss and increase fracture rates. This relationship has naturally provoked the hypothesis that stopping bone loss may result in some CV benefit. Secondary analyses of safety and adverse event data from many randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have attempted to clarify this putative association. Recently, the discontinuation of odanacatib (anti‐cathepsin K monoclonal antibody) over stroke concerns and the imbalance in ischemic events in romosozumab‐treated (anti‐sclerostin monoclonal antibody) women compared to bisphosphonate‐treated women, has provided further justification to better characterize potential CV benefits and harms of osteoporosis medications. This review delves into the seminal, and other major RCTs of osteoporosis medications and, using both published data and additional information provided on trial registration pages, examines the evidence for CV safety and harms of these medications. Accepted and emerging “off‐target” effects are explored for validity, biological plausibility, and clinical importance. A brief research agenda is provided to stimulate the next wave of clinical development and CV understanding of osteoporosis medications. © 2021 The Authors. JBMR Plus published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.

Orthopedic surgery, Diseases of the musculoskeletal system
DOAJ Open Access 2021
Features of Galicia Sports Press Functioning in 1920s — 1930s

Yu. A. Sazonova, T. I. Yaroshovets

The results of the typological analysis of the Galician sports press of the 1920s—1930s are presented. The quantitative growth of sports publications in Galicia during the analyzed period is noted, despite the fact that the region is under Polish hegemony, and the role of the regional sports press as a catalyst of national consciousness is emphasized. The sociopolitical conditions for the development of sports periodicals and general trends in the program policy of Galician sports publications have been determined. The novelty of the research is seen in the identification of the characteristic regional dominants of the sports periodicals in Galicia through the implementation of content analysis of Galician publications and a comparative analysis of sports journalism in Galicia and the Ukrainian SSR of the 1920s—1930s. The author’s development of the periodization of the sports press of Galicia of the indicated era based on the unification of sociopolitical, typological, problem-thematic, genre features of publications in a certain chronological period is presented, constitutional dominants of each period are indicated. Particular attention is paid to the review and content analysis of the most representative media of each period of the sports press of Galicia in the 1920s and 1930s, where the units of scientific observation were the goals and objectives of the publications, the composition of the editorial boards, the genre and problem-thematic ranges of materials. An overview analysis of the conditions of development, the characteristics of content, structure, genre-thematic palette, authorship of the sports media of Galicia in the context of sports journalism of Ukraine in the first half of the twentieth century is presented in conclusion.

Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
DOAJ Open Access 2021
Combination of DXA and BIS Predicts Jump Power Better Than Traditional Measures of Sarcopenia

Benjamin Rush, Neil Binkley, Diane Krueger et al.

ABSTRACT Traditional diagnostic criteria for sarcopenia use dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry (DXA)‐measured appendicular lean mass (ALM), normalized to height (ALM/ht2) or body mass index (ALM/BMI) to define low muscle mass. However, muscle function declines with aging before the loss of muscle mass is detected by ALM. This is likely due, in part, to qualitative muscle changes such as extracellular and intracellular fluid compartment shifts uncaptured by DXA. We propose combining bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS), which estimates extracellular and intracellular compartment volume, with DXA to more accurately predict muscle function. This combination may help incorporate muscle quality, thereby improving sarcopenia diagnosis. We cross‐sectionally analyzed data from 248 Black and White participants aged 25 to 75 years from the Midlife in the United States Refresher Cohort. We proposed two novel muscle measures: ALM corrected by the BIS‐derived whole‐body extracellular to intracellular fluid ratio (E/I) and leg lean mass (LLM) corrected by leg‐specific E/I, creating (ALM/(E/I)W) and (LLM/(E/I)L), respectively. We compared the associations of traditional muscle measures, ALM/(E/I)W, and LLM/(E/I)L, with grip strength and lower limb power using jumping mechanography. LLM/(E/I)L explained jump power best at R2 = 0.803 compared with ALM/(E/I)W (p < 0.0001) and all other measures. ALM/(E/I)W explained jump power second best (R2 = 0.759) but not significantly better than traditional muscle measures. No muscle measure performed better than covariates when predicting handgrip strength. LLM/(E/I)L outperformed ALM/ht2 and ALM/BMI when predicting jump power. We propose LLM/(E/I)L is a powerful and clinically relevant method that accounts for muscle quality. © 2021 The Authors. JBMR Plus published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.

Orthopedic surgery, Diseases of the musculoskeletal system
DOAJ Open Access 2020
INNOVATIVE AND TECHNOLOGICAL POTENTIAL AS A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION

Daria Londarenko

The object of the study is regional economic systems that implement innovative technological processes. The subject of the study is the economic, organizational, and managerial relations that develop in the process of formation and use of innovative and technological potential at the regional level. The purpose of the article is to study the innovative potential of the regions, substantiate the theoretical provisions and develop methodological recommendations for the development of effective ways and forms of its mobilization. Methods. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is the conceptual provisions and scientific developments of domestic and foreign scientists on the formation and use of elements of innovative and technological potential at various levels of management, published in monographs, periodicals and materials of scientific and practical conferences on the topic of research. The study is based on a general scientific methodology that provides for the use of a systematic approach. Methods of observation, comparison, categorical, structural-functional, situational, economic mathematical methods, and the method of hierarchy analysis are used to solve the tasks. Results. The article describes the innovative and technological potential of the region as an economic and managerial category. The typology of innovation as a complex and diversified concept containing many interacting components is studied. The following essential characteristics of the innovation and technological potential of the region are highlighted. Firstly, the innovative and technological potential of the region is determined by the opportunities available to it for change. The innovation potential creates conditions sufficient to ensure the progressive development of the regional socio-economic system through the creation of innovations and their purposeful transformation into innovations. Secondly, the innovative and technological potential of the region is characterized by the presence of specific ones, both involved and not involved in production, but prepared for use in it. Third, the innovative and technological potential of the region is determined by the willingness to use the existing innovative opportunities in order to translate innovations into innovations. The structure of the innovation and technological potential of the region is studied. It is determined that of all the components of the innovation potential of the region, the most important is the labor (human) potential. It is characterized, firstly, by the level of qualification, intelligence, and creativity of the population living and functioning in the territory. It is the population, on the one hand, that is able to produce innovations, and on the other hand, to introduce and distribute them, thereby determining the opportunities and directions of innovative development. It is highlighting innovative and technological potential of the region following components, including the capacity of: organization and management technology; research and development; marketing; technology and production; personnel; potential financial base; knowledge base; natural resource. Practical value. This classification of the components of innovation and technological potential is of great practical importance. It focuses the attention of researchers and users on the simple fact that the key element of the innovation potential of the region is the subjects of innovation activity operating on its territory. In particular, among all subjects of management, both employed and not employed population in the market sector of the economy should be singled out.

Social Sciences
DOAJ Open Access 2020
Operator Doktor Omer Vasfi Aybar ve Ankara’da Yayimladigi Turk Hekimi Dergisi

Cem Hakan Basaran, Nilufer Demirsoy

Eski harfli tibbi sureli yayinlar icerisinde bugune kadar calisilmamis dergilerden birisi de Turk Hekimi dergisidir. Nadir bir dergi olan Turk Hekimi 1 Mart 1336 (1 Mart 1920) tarihinde yayin hayatina baslamis ve kuvvetle muhtemel olarak ayni yil icerisinde yayin hayati son bulmustur. Bu makalede, Turkiye’de sadece Istanbul Universitesi Istanbul Tip Fakultesi Tip Tarihi ve Etik Anabilim Dali’nda iki sayisi bulunan Turk Hekimi dergisi incelenerek, bu iki sayinin dizini cikartilmistir. Ayrica, derginin sahibi olan Op. Dr. Omer Vasfi Aybar’in hayati ve eserlerine dair bir biyo-bibliyografya denemesi yapilmistir. Makalede, Turk Hekimi dergisi yayimlandigi donemin kosullari ve Op. Dr. Omer Vasfi Aybar’in siyasi kimligi ve iliskileriyle birlikte degerlendirilmeye calisilmistir. Makalenin sonunda yer alan ekler kisminda, Omer Vasfi Bey’in Canakkale Savasi’ndaki cerrahi faaliyetlerini ve hatiralarini iceren bir yazisi, ulasilabilen eserlerinin bir listesi, 1919 yilinda Dr. Abdullah Cevdet’e yazdigi bir mektubu ve annesine uyguladigi operasyonu anlatan vaka sunumuna yer verilmistir.

History (General) and history of Europe, History (General)
DOAJ Open Access 2018
Not People’s, but Honored: the Little-known Pages of Mykola Trehubov’s Creative Biography

Tetiana Churpita

The main objective of the study is to recreate the little-known pages of the creative path of Mykola Trehubov, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, on the basis of an analysis of the archival sources, periodicals and special literature. Methodology. The author has prepared an article using historical, historiographical and analytical approaches. Scientific novelty. In the article, for the first time, the creative path of Mykola Trehubov as a performer and choreographer has been systematized. Considerable attention has been paid to the peculiarities of awarding honorary titles to the master. Conclusions. Mykola Trehubov is outstanding and extraordinary personality, who contributed many bright pages to the history of the Ukrainian ballet. Despite the thorny life path, behind the master remained a gallery of unique ballets (a list of works by Mykola Trehubov, wich includes more than 52 titles), finely honed images (more than 22 ballet parts). Despite this, the authorities replaced the honorary title of Mykola Trehubov from the proposed “People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR” to “Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR”. The reason for this can only be the choreographer’s work in the occupied territory during World War II and his subsequent being in the camp of the Gulag system. It is worth recalling that during his long creative life, working in leading positions in the largest opera houses of Ukraine, Mykola Trehubov never belonged to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The only force that led the master, was the love to the great art of dance. This heritage should be studied in detail by a young generation of Ukrainian artists and choreographers.

DOAJ Open Access 2018
Tidlige skoleforbindelser: Svensk-norsk ideutveksling på skolens område rundt midten av det 19. århundre og dannelsen av tekstkulturer over kjølen

Merethe Roos

Early School Connections: Swedish-Norwegian Exchange of Ideas and the Formation of Textual Cultures Across the Border in the Mid-Nineteenth Century When it comes to the development of school and education between 1814 and 1905, the relation between Norway and Sweden has only been superficially subject to previous research, even though sources can verify contact and transfer of ideas already as early as in the beginning of the 1850’s. In this article, I will argue that Norway and Sweden are connected in common textual cultures, which gives a distinctive direction for the development of the school in the following decades. A textual culture refers to the material processes and ideological formations surrounding the production, transmission, reception, and regulation of texts. It studies the interaction between these processes and formations in order to show how texts get made and how they are understood. The textual cultures will here be studied on the background of Hartvig Nissen’s articles in the newspaper Morgenbladet in 1855, as well as a discussion between the school periodicals Almueskoletidende og Den Norske Folkeskole in 1861.

History of education
DOAJ Open Access 2017
Elections for Amur People’s Assembly in 1921

V. L. Zemlyanskiy

The features of the organization and conduct of elections to the Parliament of the Amur state establishment -the Amur People’s Assembly is considered. Based on archival data and materials of periodicals of Vladivostok the author has studied the process of elections to the Supreme representative authority of Primorye. Main attention is paid to the election procedure in towns and in rural areas of the Primorsk region under the control of S. D. Merkulov’s government. The research urgency is caused by falling of interest of Russians to the electoral campaigns to the State Duma of the Russian Federation and regional parliaments. The article shows that the elections were held in government-controlled areas (southern Primorye, Petropavlovsk) and in the zone of alienation of the Chinese Eastern railway. Voting without significant difficulties were held in the cities of Vladivostok and Nikol'sk-Ussuriisk, and also in the southern rural areas of Primorsky region. It is concluded that the main problems for elections for the Amur People’s Assembly was the absenteeism of the population of Primorye due to the discontent with the coup and the actions of the guerrillas, which prevented voting in rural areas. It is reported that pro-government candidates won in the elections, however, the opposition-minded parliamentarians occupied more than a third of the seats in Parliament.

Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
DOAJ Open Access 2017
IMPROVEMENT OF AIS FOR CONTROL OF THE BUSINESS PROCESS OF PUBLISHING SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

O. Yu. Sakaliuk

We consider business process automation publishing scientific journals. It describes the focal point of publishing houses Odessa National Academy of Food Technology and the automation of business processes. A complex business process models publishing scientific journals. Analyzed organizational structure of Coordinating Centre of Scientific Journals' Publishing ONAFT structure and created its model. Software “CCSJP Manager” was analyzed and found in it "weak areas." Automated information system was modernized. The economic feasibility of the software development was substantiated, and the definition of efficiency. The developed software will accelerate the development of scientific periodicals ONAFT, which in turn improve the academy ratings at the global level, improve its image and credibility.

DOAJ Open Access 2016
The Draughtsman’s Contacts: Robert Seymour and the Humorous Periodical Press in the 1830s

Jasper Schelstraete

Robert Seymour was celebrated enough in his day to become one of very few late Regency and early Victorian comic and satirical draughtsmen sufficiently visible to be traced through the magazines of the 1830s. His periodical contributions are, therefore, of considerable significance in trying to establish the patterns of work and maps of interconnected activity that were necessary to sustain the career of a jobbing draughtsman at this time. After contributing to Bell’s Life in London in the late 1820s, Seymour’s presence as a prolific magazine illustrator dates largely from the early 1830s. As well as a mass of jobbing illustrations that were produced for a remarkably diverse range of magazines. Seymour worked extensively for three significant and profusely illustrated magazines at this time — the Looking Glass, Figaro in London, and the Comic Magazine. The Looking Glass was published by Thomas McLean and sought to sustain an established tradition of political caricature through adapting it to a magazine format using the relatively new reprographic medium of lithography. Figaro in London was illustrated by vignette wood engravings, which were both vernacular and sophisticated at the same time. The Comic Magazine, another publication dependent on small wood-engraved images, sought to build on the growing popularity of song books and comic annuals. The diversity and prolixity of Seymour’s output at this time bears testimony to the extraordinary demands made on draughtsmen and engravers in the 1830s, and suggests something of the relentlessly innovative market place for humorous and satirical print at this time.

Periodicals
DOAJ Open Access 2016
The “Recasting capitalism”: Terminology study in the French and Spanish newspaper

Ana Luna-Alonso

Terminology is defined in relation to other subjects from which a set of concepts have been borrowed. Its scope of study is both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary since it provides a set of terms for communicating and transmitting specialised knowledge in a study area (Cabré, 1998, p. 70). This paper focuses on a concrete meaning of terminology, known as vocabulary in a specialised field. Our research model is based on the specialised domain, i.e., it focuses on the set of terms used within an ordered domain of concepts and terms which in this case are related to the world economic crisis of capitalism experienced towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century. Therefore six general and specialised newspapers taken from the newspaper and periodicals library (2008-2015) were consulted to look into the use and translation (FR-ES) of the phraseology unit: “refondation du capitalisme”, which in Spanish is translated as “refundación del capitalismo”, in order to obtain data to establish a definition of the said unit unavailable in dictionaries.

Philology. Linguistics
DOAJ Open Access 2015
Digital Nineteenth-Century Serials for the Twenty-First Century: A Conversation

James Mussell, Laurel Brake

In this conversation, Laurel Brake and James Mussell discuss journals and digitization. They were both editors of the Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (ncse), a digitized edition of six nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals published in 2008. The conversation takes in the digitization of historical periodicals in the broader context of contemporary, born-digital periodical titles. Nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals present particular challenges: there are so many of them; they are poorly catalogued; runs are fragmented; and they survive in many forms. As well as this troublesome archive, they also consider the problems posed by periodical form itself. Is there a place for periodicity in an always-on digital world? Birkbeck was the base for ncse from 2005 to 2008, and Brake and Mussell were both involved with 19 in its first few years. They discuss the potential of born-digital periodicals like 19 and consider how, to date, 19 has exploited its medium. In many ways this anniversary issue — combining text, audio, and video and marking a particular moment — exemplifies how much more work there is to do.

Modern history, 1453-
DOAJ Open Access 2014
PEMETAAN MAJALAH ILMIAH TERBITAN INDONESIA

Kamariah Tambunan

<p>This study is to find out the mapping of scientific journals published in Indonesia, mainly cover of subject, city ofpublication, publisher, period and year of publication. Directory of Indonesian Learned Periodicals which publishedby the Centre for Scientific Documentation and Information- Indonesian Institute of Sciences in year of 2004 is usedas data source. The study found that the directory are covers 1.170 journals that already have ISSN and still issueduntil year of 2003. The most subject available is technology (418 titles). The most scientific journal was published inDKI Jakarta (182 titles), then West Java (176 titles) and East Java (174 titles). The journals issued mainly by educationalinstitutions (academy, universities, schools, etc.). The journals issued half-yearly are the most common, thereare 673 titles. These journals issued in 50’s up to 2004 and the most ones (605 titles) issued in 2000-2004.</p>

Bibliography. Library science. Information resources
DOAJ Open Access 2010
Northeast of Lithuania partisan region: organizational activity, connections, leaders

Gintaras Vaičiūnas

In 1947–1952, most of the partisan units of Aukštaitija were united by the Northeastern Lithuania Partisan Area (other names – King Mindaugas, Mountains, Eastern). The regional headquarters led the partisan struggle in Aukštaitija, maintained contacts with the Lithuanian partisan high command, and published periodicals. The Lithuanian partisans’ struggle for independence was manifested in organisational, social and military activities. Based mainly on archival documents, the article examines the organisational activities of the Northeastern Lithuanian Partisan Area, the changes in its subordination, structure and territory, sheds light on the most important events of its history, and shows the place of the area in the overall Lithuanian partisan organisation.

History of Eastern Europe, Political science
DOAJ Open Access 2008
Analysis of the publications about child health in journals of nursing from 2000 to 2005

Maria Vera Lúcia Moreira Leitão Cardoso, Débora Feitosa de França, Wiliane Resende Sousa et al.

Publications of research in child health have been increasing every year. This study’s objective was to analyze the content of articles about health child from abstracts published in Brazilians journals of nursing classified on “Qualis CAPES” as International B and C, in the period between 2000 and 2005. Descriptive and documentary study, which the sample consisted of 202 abstracts which had as focus child health in their titles. They were consulted on BVS/BIREME site, universities’ libraries and personal collection of the authors. After that, they were photocopied, read and examined from March to May, 2006. The data about the name of journal, year of publication, title of the article, authors, city, theme, objective and type of research were noted in a specific instrument. The findings revealed that the themes most investigated were nursing care (16.0%) and nutrition (12.3%); the themes least researched were domestic accidents (2.0%), HIV (2.0%), and pain (1.2%). In relation to year of publication, 2004 had the highest number of articles/abstracts (23.3%). The Southeast Region published 53.6% of the abstracts and the North 0.6%. Nursing have been doing studies about child health, but it is necessary to stimulate and support continuing these researches, on a broader variety of topics about child health, especially in regions like North and Central-West of Brazil.&#13; Keywords: Nursing, child health, periodicals.

DOAJ Open Access 2008
SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION NETWORK IN “METRICAL STUDIES”: A CO-AUTHORSHIP STUDY USING THE SCIELO INFORMATION SCIENCE PERIODICALS

Maria Claudia Cabrini Grácio, Ely Francina Tannuri de Oliveira

This study is aimed at analyzing the scientific collaboration network in the Information Science area, regarding the theme “metrical studies”, based on institutional co-authorships in periodicals published on line by Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), electronic library that comprises a selected collection of Brazilian scientific periodicals, in the following publications: Ciência da Informação and Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação. The adopted research procedure was the survey of published numbers, including a total of 53 papers related to the topic under study. Initially, 388 papers were worked on, and 53 of them (13,7%, between the two periodicals) are related to this topic. Software Pajek was used in order to construct the scientific collaboration network based on co-authorship, and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for cluster analysis, by using Ward’s method and the distance measures were squared Euclidean with the standardized variables. The data were presented as an aggregation of communities, sometimes isolated, other times forming a configuration of a scientific collaboration network already established, but not dense.

Bibliography. Library science. Information resources
DOAJ Open Access 1978
Avaliação do uso de periódicos em biblioteca especializada em saúde pública Evaluation of the usage of journals in a specialized public health library

Maria Teresinha Dias de Andrade, Irene Lerche Eleutério, Daisy Pires Noronha

Foi feita avaliação do uso de periódicos técnico-científicos da Biblioteca da Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo (FSP/ USP), por um período de seis meses, em 1973/74, com a finalidade de verificar as tendências de interesse de seus usuários. Para a avaliação foi considerado o total de empréstimos realizados no período, sendo desprezados os dados de consulta local e do uso do periódico feito por meio de fotocópias de artigos. O número de consulentes matriculados no período era, em média, de 801, sendo 11,7% pertencentes ao corpo docente da FSP; 40,6% ao discente e 47,5% referentes a consulentes externos. O levantamento foi programado para medir os periódicos circulados considerando as seguintes variáveis: tipo de aquisição; categoria de consulentes; ano da publicação; língua em que o periódico foi publicado e assunto do periódico. Foi medido também o grau de freqüência da circulação, usando-se o método de Bradford. A análise dos resultados mostrou que a circulação foi de 36,5% do total de títulos da coleção (1.530); a zona de concentração dos títulos circulados foi muito baixa, com 3,6% do total de títulos da coleção. Quanto às demais variáveis, verificou-se que 68,3% da circulação coube a periódicos adquiridos por compra; 82,5% a periódicos dos 5 anos mais recentes (1969-1973); 61,2% a periódicos em língua inglesa; 72,5% foi a demanda por parte do corpo docente.<br>A study aiming at the use of periodicals was conducted at the School of Public Health Library, University of S. Paulo, Brazil, during a period of six months, in 1973/74, so as to identify the interest of the users. The total of journals borrowed was considered in this evaluation while local consultation and photocopying were not. The total number of users registered in the period of the study was, on average, 801 (11.4% corresponding to professors; 40.6% to students and 47.5% to other categories). The borrowed, journals were measured by kind of acquisition, category of users, date of publication, language and subject of the journals. Bradford's Law was adopted to measure the degree of frequency of the usage. This study reveals that the circulation was of 36.5% of the total titles of the Library' collection (1530); a core of journals supplies only 3.6% of total journals of the collection; 68.3% represent the subscribed journals; 72.5% was the demand of the Professors; 82.5% of use refers to volumes published in the last 5 years (1969-1973) and the use of English journals was of 61.2%.

Public aspects of medicine

Halaman 13 dari 243