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the information rich or information poor group. 3)The physical existence of public libraries has
a positive effect on the accumulation of information assets of users but should not be limited to
a specific level of information rich/poor users, and there is no statistical difference demonstrated
in either rural or urban users. 4)Actual use of public libraries has a positive effect on the amount
of users’ information assets as well regardless of urban or rural context and this effect is also not
limited to a specific level of information rich/poor users.
The limitations of this research include remaining vagueness of the mechanism public libraries utilize
to affect their users’ information worlds. Thus, we still require further investigation into the contribution
of the socio-economic status of users of public libraries to their use of the library or whether
information rich individuals tend to use libraries more frequently than information poor individuals.
The practical implications of this research are as follow: Firstly, the present study provides sufficient
evidence on the widespread existence of information divides among different groups of public library
users. It indicates that library professionals should pay more attention to information divide issues.
Secondly, we provide evidence for the necessity of building public libraries for specific groups of
users in the context of the information society once again. Thirdly, people who are at different levels
of information poverty will display different information behavior and thus, library professionals need
to turn their perspective towards that of a user-centered one throughout their work.
The present study identified the widespread information divide among different groups of
public library users in China based on the measurement of their information world and confirmed
a positive effect of public libraries on the users’ information wealth. Thus, we provide new
perspectives and evidence for future research which may focus on the service style of public
libraries under the context of the information society.

Comparative study of papers’ impact in open access journals between China
and the USA

〇a*
YANG Siluo〇, YUAN Qingli & HAN Lei
This paper analyzes the three levels of the formation process of the OA (Open Access)paper from
the micro level, meso level and macro level. Based on the knowledge transfer process of OA papers,
the influencing factors of impact formation are investigated: the paper itself, the paper’s circulation,
the users, the external environment and so on. From the view of the life cycle, this paper discusses
impact formation mechanisms of OA papers: cumulative growth, co-evolution, preferential
utilization, backtracking aging. We take these Chinese and USA papers in 7 PLoS journals as data
sample, use PLoS Article-Level Metrics as the tool. We count the five major categories of indicators
(Viewed, Cited, Saved, Discussed, and Recommended)and 24 sub-indexes, and compare these OA

* Correspondence should be addressed to YANG Siluo, Email: 58605025@qq.com, ORCID: 0000-0003-3228-1102