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No one can deny that the collected information quality will greatly rely on one's English proficiency under the backgroud of globalization. If you just want to get domestic information, maybe it's unnecesary for you to master any foreign languages. However, nowadays, even many Chinese publish their papers in English in order to let their papers known by more people all over the world. Some researchers only have their papers published on the international well-known magazines, especially their high quality research achievements. So it's difficult to get all the needy information just by searching or retrieving the domestic literature webpages or databases.
A professional information worker should master at least one foreign language,especially English.
Over 60 percent of research papers are written in English, and over 95 percent of the SCI-included papers are written in English. No matter as a science researcher or an information retrieval service provider, it's very important to retrieve literature information in English. Otherwise, as a researcher, their research design will be imperfect,and their research may be just the repetition of other's work; as an imformation provider, their service quality will be very low, sometimes even useless.
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