Scientific Periodicals for Czech Students

350 Years of Scientific Periodicals.

Properties of Scientific Periodicals under Bibliometric Assessment

The methods of bibliometric research of scientific periodicals are studied much better than the properties of periodicals though the latter are the subject of the assessment. Since the properties in most cases are not being evaluated directly, the problem is to identify the intermediate that is DIRECTLY evaluated by a concrete method and to determine, which specific property of a scientific per...

The future of scientific periodicals: A librarian's perspective

Over the past two decades, libraries have moved from being warehouses of print journals to gateways to the electronic scholarly record. ‘Gatekeepers’ is perhaps a more accurate term as universities no longer own journals. Instead we buy licences which allow only university students and staff to read these digital texts. This has undoubtedly created legal barriers to access for many outside the ...

Alcohol use in Czech pharmacy students.

In academic years 2002/3-2004/5, the use of alcohol was investigated by anonymous questionnaire in 1,032 first and third year pharmacy students in the Czech Republic. Frequencies of beer, wine and spirits use, the age of the first contact with alcoholic beverages, the age of the first drunkenness and the frequency of drunkenness in the last month were ascertained. Average age of the first conta...

World Medical Periodicals

building which the Admiralty acknowledged: "Though science is much respected by their Lordships and your paper is much esteemed, it is too learned." Young was also appointed as Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac and Secretary of the Board of Longitude. In this he was unable to satisfy the demands both of the navigators and of the astronomers, incurring the displeasure of both. A bibliograph...