Digital Resources and Electronic Resources: Concept Discrimination and Terminology Standardization

Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Information Science submitted time 2023-04-01 Cooperative journals: 《图书情报工作》

Xu Qingmei Tao Rui Ye Jiyuan

Abstract： [Purpose/significance] By sorting out the terminology evolution of digital resources and electronic resources, investigating the current research and use of the two terms in academia and practice, clarifying the conceptual relationship between the two, and making suggestions for the standardized use of these two terms.[Method/process] Through research methods such as conceptual analysis, comparative analysis, and network research, the literature on the concept and relationship between the two in relevant domestic and foreign literature was investigated, compared and analyzed, and three main points of view were summarized. Perform a quantitative analysis of the publication years of related documents using the two terms at home and abroad, and conduct statistics on the use of the two terms on the official websites of different types of libraries at home and abroad, so as to understand the use and change characteristics of the two terms in academia and practice.[Result/conclusion] Through the analysis of the survey results, it is proposed that digital resources and electronic resources are a pair of "new and old terms", which are different terminology expressions of the same concept. The two have obvious historical traces and technical application differences. Finally, some reference suggestions are put forward for the normative use of the two in theory and practice.

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