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Record W2468082949 · doi:10.5860/crln.66.2.7390

Using libraries in China: Know before you go

2005· article· en· W2468082949 on OpenAlexaff
Chen Su, Jing Liu

Bibliographic record

VenueCollege & Research Libraries News · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLibrary Science and Administration
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChinaComputer scienceWorld Wide WebHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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Using libraries in ChinaKnow before you go 1 A s more scholars and students go to mainland China to do research or fi eld work, many of them, especially students, are surprised by and disappointed with, what they discover in the Chinese library system.It is drastically different from what they are familiar with in North America.The authors of this article are both Chinese studies subject librarians working in North American universities.In the past few years, we have visited the National Library of China and dozens of academic and public libraries in Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan-the biggest and most populated cities in China.Through our work, we have talked with many scholars, researchers, and students who have used libraries in China and whose research interests are mainly in the humanities and social sciences.We conducted informal user interviews with them over a oneyear period.The purpose of this article is to address their concerns and offer some practical advice to those who plan to use libraries in China.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Direct model labels (unvalidated)

Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.

Model armCategoriesStudy designConfidence
gemmano category
Domain: not available · Genre: Other
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Not applicablelow
gptno category
Domain: not available · Genre: Commentary
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Not applicablehigh
models agreeAgreement compares identical category sets and study designs across arms.

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.162
Threshold uncertainty score0.322

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.007
Science and technology studies0.0090.004
Scholarly communication0.0080.014
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.104
GPT teacher head0.389
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Labeled directly by 2 models reading the full record.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther · Commentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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