The Flow Path of Scholarly Information in Chinese Studies

The Flow Path of Scholarly Information in Chinese Studies

Chinese studies in North America have experienced a significant and unprecedented growth during the last couple of decades. Modern technologies have stimulated new ways of scholarly communication between Chinese and American scholars. In order to investigate how scholarly communication has developed between Chinese and American scholars and
how it has impacted the growth of the scholarship in the field and in order to understand how Chinese studies librarians can be more involved in the flow path of scholarly information exchange to support the research, it is necessary to map out the changes in scholarly communicative behaviors in terms of exchange channels; the intellectual awareness of scholarly output; and the ways scholars reference each other’s works. This study is our first attempt to trace the path and pattern of scholarly information flow. It is hoped that it will not only show the new development in scholarly communication between Chinese and American scholars, but also provide valuable measures for libraries in supporting teaching and research in the field of Chinese studies.

Jiang, Shuyong

Zhang, Haihui

http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2565&context=jeal

2015-02

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Jiang, S., & Zhang, H. (2015). The Flow Path of Scholarly Information in Chinese Studies. Journal of East Asian Libraries, 2015(160), 3.