外文期刊作为一种特定类型的出版物，是促进我国科技发展必不可少的信息源。我馆是医学专业图书馆，医学外文期刊在馆藏结构上占1／2，占全年经费的2／3。为了及时掌握我馆外文期刊的利用情况，改进工作，更好地为医院医教研服务，我们对1996年馆里订的153种外文期刊的使用情况 As a specific type of publication, foreign periodicals are an indispensable source of information for promoting the development of science and technology in our country. Our library is a medical professional library, medical foreign periodicals in the collection structure accounted for 1/2, accounting for 2/3 of the annual funding. In order to keep abreast of the utilization of foreign periodicals in our library, to improve our work and to better serve the teaching and research of hospitals, we analyzed the usage of 153 kinds of foreign periodicals