科技期刊在当今社会中的重要性可大致叙述如次: 第一,科技期刊作为第四产业越来越受到重视。目前,国外把知识或情报业看作是第四产业,而第四产业的比重越来越大,日趋重要。科技期刊作为知识世界的一部分,当然随着第四产业的发展而发展。第二,科技期刊作为第二资源越来越得到利用。科技期刊所表现的科技知识,可以通过人们的脑力劳动和体力劳动,使之化为生产力,化为物质财富,化为人类全部的物质和精神生活。第三,科技期刊在空间上广泛传播的方便性。人们头脑中的科技观念,一经刊载,便会不胫而走,可使世界上各个角落的同代人得到利用和互相交流。第四,科技期刊在时间上的长期保存性。客观知识可以一代一代地继承传递,长期保存,同时,科技期刊的 The importance of sci-tech periodicals in today's society can be broadly described as follows: First, sci-tech periodicals are gaining more and more attention as the fourth industry. At present, the knowledge or intelligence industry abroad is regarded as the fourth industry, while the proportion of the fourth industry is more and more important and increasingly important. As a part of the knowledge world, sci-tech periodicals certainly develop with the development of the fourth industry. Second, sci-tech periodicals are increasingly being used as secondary resources. The scientific and technological knowledge expressed by sci-tech periodicals can be turned into productive forces and materialized by people's mental work and physical labor into all material and spiritual lives of mankind. Third, the convenience of sci-tech periodicals widely spread in space. Once published, the concept of science and technology in the minds of the people will spread like wildfire, enabling the generations of people in every corner of the world to utilize and communicate with each other. Fourth, the long-term preservation of sci-tech periodicals. Objective knowledge can be inherited from generation to generation, long-term preservation, at the same time, scientific journals