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Se describen a los micro-papers como formatos novedosos e incipientes para la difusión del conocimiento científico, tanto en revistas científicas como a través de otros métodos nativos del Internet (repositorios, blogs, etcétera). Planteamos la importancia de la utilización de este formato reducido de comunicación de la ciencia para transmitir ciertos tipos de hallazgos, pues presenta una condensación de la información básica en un documento breve, de fácil lectura y con amplia audiencia, sin perder la calidad propia de los trabajos científicos revisados. Para ello, se realiza un estudio descriptivo de carácter exploratorio por medio de una revisión bibliográfica que ahonda en su uso actual y experiencias previas. Concluimos que su viabilidad para la difusión de contenidos científicos concretos busca la agilidad, sin que ello implique la pérdida de la calidad en la difusión científica.

Objetive. To know some characteristics of the communication channels used by the Brazilian Archival community. Method. It’s a bibliometric study about the prestige of scientific journals in articles of Brazilians archival science journals in order. The study use analysis of citations, with a random sample of complete 116 references of journal articles, and select reference data from the ABCDM database, from the Universidade de Brasília, which were exported into MS-Excel and SPSS. Results. The results present rankings of document types, journal titles and their countries, as well as the most frequent languages of these references. 78 channel types were identified, specially books (32.42%) and journal articles (22.46%). Among the 180 identified journal titles (89 Brazilian and 91 from other countries), the Brazilian most cited were Estudos Históricos (7.66%), Ciência da Informação (7.48%), Arquivo & Administração (5.47%), DataGramaZero (3.65%), Acervo (3.47%) and Arquivística.net (3.47%). Among foreigners, the most cited journals were Archivaria (6.02%), Archival Science (4.20%), American Archivist (3.47%) and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2.19%). The countries with the most cited journals were Brazil (61.86%), United States (12.04%) and Canada (11.31%). The most mentioned language in the references were Portuguese (63.32%) and English (30.11%). Conclusions. The search to results point to a significant lack of specific current Brazilian journals and show that results resemble those of other research areas related to information areas in general, showing that Archival Science keep scientific communication features common to other areas of information in Brazil.

Abstract The study extends the conversation on the effect that co-authorship has on the citation impact of papers by analyzing the short-term advantage of co-authored papers. The results suggest that co-authored papers have a higher short-term impact than single-authored ones in all scientific domains. The study adds insights on the use of the immediacy index as an alternative indicator to evaluate the short-term competitive advantage of co-authored papers concerning the number of citations they attract. Furthermore, the study shows the efficacy of the immediacy index in comparing the short-term impact of different groups.

No puede negarse que los llamados a publicar o Call For Papers (CFP), utilizados de manera sistemática por las llamadas revistas “depredadoras”, son importantes para las revistas de excelencia y las de segundo orden que recurren a estos anun¬cios para sus ediciones regulares, temáticas y conmemorativas. En este artículo, se exponen los resultados de una encuesta realizada en 2016 a 199 editores de revistas científicas colombianas de áreas como Ciencias Naturales, Ingeniería y Tecnología, Ciencias Médicas y de la Salud, Ciencias Agrícolas, Ciencias Sociales, Humanidades y Multidisciplinarias. 143 de las revistas estudiadas (75%) tienen una periodicidad semestral; 53 editores participantes suelen usar los anuncios de CFP con el objetivo de llamar artículos para sus ediciones regulares. De ellos, 30% (114) de los editores utiliza el sitio web de la revista para difundir sus anuncios de CFP y el 29,5% (111) el correo electrónico. Sin embargo, 66 editores no respondieron a qué tan efectivos resultaron estos anuncios para atraer artículos, al no poder determinar el porcentaje de recibidos que fueron publicados = It cannot be denied that the call for papers (CFP), used in a systematic way by the ‘predatory’ journals, are important for journals of excellence and second-class ones that turn to these announ¬cements for their regular, themed and commemoratives editions. In this article we show the results of a survey carried out in 2016 to 199 editors of Colombian scientific journals of areas such as Natural Science, Engineering and Technology, Medical Scien¬ces, Agricultural Sciences, Humanities, and Multidisciplinary Sciences. The 75% (143) of the studied journals have a biannual regularity. 37.7% (53) of the editors usually use the CFP announcements to call for articles for their regular editions. 30% (114) of the editors use the journal’s web page to issue their CFP announcements and 29.5% (111) use the e-mail. Nonetheless, 66 editors could not answer how effective were these announcements to draw articles, because they could not define the percentage of the material received that was finally published.

This paper aims to carry out a diachronic analysis of Brazilian scientific productivity in the Library and Information Science field as indexed by the Scopus database for the period 1986-2015. We also analyze the main journals that publish Brazilian contributions, compare the impact of Brazilian production between papers published in Latin language journals and those in English, and identify the primary language of Brazilian papers and the main collaborating countries. We carried out a search on Brazilian scientific productivity in the analyzed field in the Scopus database for the studied period. Then, through a manual filter, we identified a corpus of 1,195 papers. Of the 90 journals identified, 26 journals were considered the main venues for Brazilian Library and Information Science research. These were grouped using multivariate cluster analysis. The main collaborating countries were grouped based on normalized values of co-authorship using Salton's cosine measure. Since 2006, Brazilian scientific production has experienced a similar growth tendency as the rest of the world. We observed that Brazilian journals, publishing in Portuguese, formed a cluster, while English and Spanish language journals clustered separately. We observed that papers published in English received on average more citations than those papers published in other languages.

Objectiu: analitzar les enquadernacions artístiques dels impresos del segle xviii recollides en la Base de dades d'enquadernació historicoartística de la Real Biblioteca per localitzar-hi les guardes dutes a terme amb papers decorats, amb la finalitat de classificar-los i descriure'ls segons les propostes de la literatura especialitzada. -- Metodologia: es recuperen els registres de la base de dades pel camp 'Fecha', s'extreu la informació dels camps 'Guardas' i 'Notas', s'analitzen les reproduccions de les guardes, s'identifiquen i es descriuen seguint el model de classificació de papers decorats, prèviament elaborat, inspirat en els treballs del professor Carpallo Bautista, format per cinc tècniques i les seves variants, i finalment s'efectua una anàlisi comparativa. -- Resultats: entre els 382 exemplars amb enquadernacions artístiques dels impresos del segle xviii s'han localitzat i analitzat 10 exemplars que inclouen guardes decorades amb planxes xilogràfiques, 135 papers marbrats o jaspiats amb bany (amb dissenys corresponents a 7 variants), 4 exemplars de papers encolats amb engrut, 3 exemplars de papers esquitxats, 18 exemplars amb papers daurats i gofrats, i 4 exemplars d'altres tipus (paper argentat, paper de percalina). Objective: to analyse the artistic bindings of the eighteenth-century prints stored in the Historical-artistic Binding Database of the Royal Library, in order to locate the endpapers made with decorated papers, and to classify and describe them according to the proposals of the specialist literature. -- Methodology: The records from the database were retrieved using the 'date' field, and the information is extracted from the 'endpapers' and 'notes' fields. The reproductions of the endpapers were analysed, identified and described following the classification model of decorated papers inspired by the works of Professor Carpallo Bautista, consisting of five techniques and their variants. Finally, a comparative analysis was carried out. -- Results: Among the 382 eighteenth-century prints with artistic bindings, ten were located and analysed that include endpapers decorated with xylographic plates, 135 with marbled or mottled papers (with designs corresponding to seven variants), four with paste-glued papers, three with dotted papers, 18 with gold and embossed papers, and four of other kinds such as silver or percaline paper.

El patrimonio documental nacional e internacional se encuentra en su gran mayoría en soporte papel. A partir de la industrialización en la manufactura de dicho material se ha producido papel con niveles de acidez, que sumado a otros factores, ha sido causante del deterioro de este tipo de patrimonio documental. En las últimas décadas, con la incorporación de nuevos procesos dentro de la producción papelera se ha resuelto en parte dicha problemática. El organismo internacional de normalización ISO ha redactado dos normas al respecto: la norma ISO 9706 e ISO 11108. Con la difusión y recomendación de uso del papel permanente para la conservación del patrimonio documental a largo plazo, se hace imprescindible conocer dicha normativa e informarse al respecto. En el presente artículo se describen las variables en la fabricación del papel que influyen en la permanencia de los papeles. También se determinan los conceptos y antecedentes que rodean ambas normas ISO, así como las características principales y partes que componen las mismas. Como anexo se consigna un glosario con los principales términos técnicos utilizados.Most of the national and international documentary heritage are on paper. From industrialization in the manufacture of such material, paper with acidity levels has been produced which, together with other factors, has been causing the deterioration of this type of documentary heritage. In recent decades, with the incorporation of new paper production processes this problem has been partly solved. The international standards organism ISO has drafted two rules in this connection: ISO 9706 and ISO 11108. With the spread and recommendation for the use of permanent paper for preservation of documentary heritage in the long term, it is essential to know the standards and be well informed. This article describes the variables in the manufacture of paper that influence the permanence of the papers. It also identifies the concepts and history that surround both ISO standards and the main characteristics and component parts of them. The annex provides a glossary of key technical terms used.

En aquest article es presenten les activitats i experiències impulsades des de la Cartoteca de Catalunya amb l'objectiu de visibilitzar i reconèixer els treballs de les dones en un camp tradicionalment amb una gran presència d'homes, com són les ciències de la terra. Les dues activitats principals se centren en la celebració d'exposicions per donar difusió al fons propi de la Cartoteca, i a intentar desenvolupar col·leccions més equilibrades des del punt de vista de gènere. This article describes the activities designed by the Map Library of Catalonia to draw attention to the contributions of women to Earth sciences, a field traditionally dominated by men. The Library’s two main lines of action are the organization of exhibitions to bring its holdings to a wider public, and its project to develop more gender-balanced collections.

Objectiu: reflexionar sobre els rols del professor com a recomanador i prescriptor de lectures i sobre el lloc que ocupa cadascuna d'aquestes funcions en l'educació literària de l'alumnat. -- Metodologia: revisió bibliogràfica en el camp de la didàctica de la llengua i de la literatura i presentació de certes situacions escolars de lectura que exemplifiquen els supòsits des dels quals es pensa el rol docent. -- Resultats: un dels avenços més grans que s'han produït en els darrers anys en la didàctica de la llengua i de la literatura es vincula amb la definició progressiva de les funcions docents i dels objectius educatius relacionats amb els processos de formació del lector literari en el context escolar. En aquest marc cal renovar els processos de formació del professorat per tal d'assegurar la construcció del cànon formatiu que requereix la pràctica professional del mediador escolar de lectures. Objective: This article reflects on what teachers do when they recommend and prescribe works of literature to their students. It also examines how recommendation and prescription are important in children’s literary education. -- Methodology: The article reviews the research on language and literature education and examines particular classroom scenarios that explain why teachers choose certain roles over other when they recommend and prescribe works of literature. -- Results: In recent years, the most important progress in language and literature education has been tied to redefining teachers’ roles and the objectives of education as these relate to children’s acquisition of literary reading skills. In this context, teacher education programmes need to be revised in order to equip teachers with a literary canon that helps them address their task effectively.

Objective. This research aimed to determine the degree of acceptance, by the use of the Technology Acceptance Model - TAM, of the developed software, which allows the construction and database management of scientific articles aimed at assisting in the dissemination and retrieval of stored scientific production in digital media. Method. The research is characterized as quantitative, since the TAM, which guided this study is essentially quantitative. A questionnaire developed according to TAM guidelines was used as a tool for data collection. Results. It was possible to verify that this software, despite the need of fixes and improvements inherent to this type of tool, obtained a relevant degree of acceptance by the sample studied. Conciderations. It also should be noted that although this research has been directed to scholars in the field of information science, the idea that justified the creation of the software used in this study might contribute to the development of science in any field of knowledge, aiming at the optimization results of a search conducted in a specialized database can provide.

En el setanta-cinquè aniversari de la mort d'Eduard Toda, que va ser diplomàtic, egiptòleg, escriptor i historiador, que va redescobrir i divulgar l'alguerès, que va reconstruir i restaurar Escornalbou i Poblet, que va compilar bibliografies i va ser un bibliòfil i un mecenes exemplar, s'analitza en primer lloc aquest darrer aspecte de la seva activitat que va contribuir a enriquir les biblioteques i els arxius del país. A continuació es presenta la seva relació amb l'Escola de Bibliotecàries que es va iniciar gràcies al lligam que havia establert amb la Biblioteca de Catalunya amb les seves generoses donacions de materials bibliogràfics. A partir de la documentació conservada a l'arxiu de l'antiga Escola de Bibliotecàries, es mostren les distintes facetes d'aquella relació: les excursions a Escornalbou que es complementen amb tot un recorregut cultural, les estades de les alumnes a Poblet on col·laboren en l'organització de la biblioteca pobletana, la introducció de les classes de restauració en el pla d'estudis de la carrera, la posada en marxa d'un laboratori de restauració que, per moltes dècades, compartiran l'Escola i la Biblioteca de Catalunya, etc. Certament, els vincles de Toda amb l'Escola es van caracteritzar per un afecte mutu i algunes de les activitats que va promoure amb les alumnes van contribuir a donar a l'Escola aquell toc d' Diplomat, Egyptologist, writer and historian, Eduard Toda is remembered as the man who rescued the Algherese dialect of Catalan from oblivion and who helped rebuild the monastery libraries of Escornalbou and Poblet. On the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of his death, this paper reviews Toda’s book collecting activities, his general love of books and his outstanding work as a benefactor of libraries, which together contributed to enriching our country’s book heritage. The paper then turns to Toda’s relationship with the school for librarians the Escola de Bibliotecàries, which was founded thanks to his donation of a number of book collections to the Library of Catalonia. As recorded in the archives of the old Escola, this relationship was based on a number of different activities: Toda’s trips to Escornalbou, which also provided an opportunity for cultural study; his organization of periods of residence for student librarians at Poblet to help rebuild the monastery’s library; his creation of classes in book restoration in degree courses in librarianship; and the creation of a workshop for restoring library materials, which for many decades helped to link the Escola and the Library of Catalonia. Finally, as the article shows, Toda’s ties with the Escola de Bibliotecàries were reinforced by the mutual affection existing between him and the school as well as by the activities he organized with its students, which gave the school its singular nature as a place of study during the 1930s.

Presents results of research that had as main objective test the proposed integrated analysis of the distinct Science and Technology outputs (papers and patents) and simultaneously investigate the potential contribution of co-occurrences indicators - co-activity - between different actors in the innovation system of countries organizations and their typologies to better understand the contexts of generation and use of both productions, as well as the dynamic relationship between Science and Technology. It was used as empirical object, the Scientific and Technological Production in the biodiesel field. It was identified 885 published papers and 612 patents. It was found that 80% of the countries that produced patent also produce papers, with strong positive correlation (0.832). A number of organizations that have published papers in the period were 547 and the number of registered patents that was the total of 319. There is co-occurrence in 7% of organizations, which have 25% of total papers and 22% of patents. These co-active organizations are more productive than others (non co-active). With respect to the registration of patents, Companies and Private Research Institutes, co-active registered 7% and Educational Institutes and Public Research Institutes 15%, proving to be more productive.

O presente texto recupera a trajetória da biblioteca em seus diferentes formatos, mostrando a importância desta instituição em vários contextos. Aborda a passagem da cultura impressa para a cultura digital e a necessidade de os profissionais da informação se adequarem aos novos formatos. A expansão da cultura e do saber exige a aquisição de novas competências e habilidades para o desenvolvimento dos serviços informacionais. As ferramentas de busca, a recuperação e as estratégias de acesso à informação possibilitam ao indivíduo um contato mais rápido e direto com o objeto do conhecimento em qualquer lugar e tempo real. A Biblioteca Digital Paulo Freire dissemina os conteúdos filosóficos, sociológicos e pedagógicos do pensamento freireano.This paper tracks down the development of library in its different formats, showing the importance of this institution in several contexts. It describes the changes from printed to digital culture and the information professionals' need to adapt themselves to the new formats. The expansion of culture and knowledge demands the acquisition of new competencies and abilities for the development of new information services. The search tools, retrieval and strategies of access to information enable the individual to have a faster and more direct contact with the object of knowledge in any place and real time. Paulo Freire Digital Library disseminates the philosophical, sociological and pedagogical contents of Paulo Freire's works, spread out in Brazil and several other countries.

Este artículo explora la modelación del número de autores que colaboran en la publicación de un artículo. Con ese fin se analizaron la distribución geométrica, la distribución Poisson truncada, la distribución Poisson lognormal y la distribución Gauss Poisson inversa generalizada en la literatura producida sobre la Ley de Lotka desde 1922 hasta junio de 2010. Se encontró que la distribución Poisson lognormal estimó más cercanamente el valor total de los documentos observados seguida del modelo Poisson truncado, la distribución geométrica y finalmente el modelo Gauss Poisson inversa generalizada.In the literature produced about Lotka's law from 1922 to June 2010, the geometric distribution, truncated Poisson distribution, Poisson lognormal distribution, and the generalized inverse Gaussian Poisson distribution are studied to statistically model the number the authors who collaborate in the publication of an article. It was found that the Poisson lognormal distribution more closely estimated the total value of documents, followed by the truncated Poisson model, the geometric distribution, and finally the generalized inverse Gaussian Poisson distribution.

El artículo propone unificar los criterios para citar y elaborar bibliografías en la investigación en filosofía y en ciencias humanas. Se analizan las ventajas y los inconvenientes del sistema tradicional y del sistema Harvard.The paper attempts to unify criteria for referencing documents and elaborating bibliographies in philosophy and human sciences research. The advantages and disadvantages of the Harvard system are confronted with more traditional methods.

Presents results of research that had as main objective test the proposed integrated analysis of the distinct Science and Technology outputs (papers and patents) and simultaneously investigate the potential contribution of co-occurrences indicators - co-activity - between different actors in the innovation system of countries organizations and their typologies to better understand the contexts of generation and use of both productions, as well as the dynamic relationship between Science and Technology. It was used as empirical object, the Scientific and Technological Production in the biodiesel field. It was identified 885 published papers and 612 patents. It was found that 80% of the countries that produced patent also produce papers, with strong positive correlation (0.832). A number of organizations that have published papers in the period were 547 and the number of registered patents that was the total of 319. There is co-occurrence in 7% of organizations, which have 25% of total papers and 22% of patents. These co-active organizations are more productive than others (non co-active). With respect to the registration of patents, Companies and Private Research Institutes, co-active registered 7% and Educational Institutes and Public Research Institutes 15%, proving to be more productive.

El presente trabajo reseña el proceso de transformación que se está llevando a cabo en el Archivo de Redacción del Diario Clarín de Buenos Aires, Argentina. La digitalización de diarios y fotografías, así como también la creación de Bases de Datos de negativos e imágenes en formato digital, conforman una respuesta práctica y eficiente a la demandas del diario de mayor circulación de habla hispana. Se detallan, además, los pasos seguidos en el desarrollo de páginas web para dotar a la redacción de herramientas de búsqueda y recuperación de la información tanto a través de una Intranet, como el desarrollo y actualización constante de una completa guía de recursos periodísticos en Internet = This paper reviews the transformation process being held by the Clarín Newspaper Archives (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Digitalization of photographs and newspapers, as well as digital image databases are just the starting point to the demands generated by this newspaper - ranked number one among hispanic countries. There is also detailed information on the process by which web pages were developed in order to provide journalists with information search and retrieval tools through an Intranet, and by the development of a complete and up-to-dated guide to journalistic resources in the Internet.

Resumo As relações e interações entre a Ciência e a Tecnologia têm sido estudadas sob múltiplos enfoques e perspectivas, destacando-se os métodos bibliométricos e cientométricos. Nesta pesquisa foi abordada análise correlacional das classificações (coclassificação) de artigos e patentes em diferentes tipos de organizações (públicas e privadas), na área de biodiesel. Desenvolveu-se uma classificação para os artigos e utilizou-se a Classificação Internacional de Patentes, buscando-se identificar coocorrências entre elas. Com isso, foi possível verificar que a correlação dos assuntos das patentes e artigos, calculada a partir dos quantitativos, é positiva forte, enquanto a correlação dos assuntos identificados por países foi, positiva entre média e forte. Palavras-chave Coclassificação, Relações entre Ciência e Tecnologia, Bibliometria, Cientometria, Patentes e Artigos, Biodiesel. Abstract The relationships and interactions between science and technology have been studied in multiple approaches and perspectives, with emphasis on the scientometric and bibliometric methods. This research investigates the correlations between classifications (co-classification) of articles and patents in different types of organizations (public and private) in the field of biodiesel. It develops a classification of the articles and uses the International Patent Classification for identifying co-occurrences among them. With this, we found that the correlation of the subjects of patents and articles, calculated from their quantities, is strongly positive, while the correlation of the issues identified by countries was positive between medium and high. Keywords Co-classification, Relationships between Science and Technology, Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Patents and Papers, Biodiesel.

Reflexions, des d’una perspectiva arxivística, sobre la part de la documentació que va ser confiscada als anomenats “enemigos y desafectos al Movimiento Nacional” a partir de l’ocupació militar de Catalunya (1938–1939) i que està dipositada a l’Archivo General de la Guerra Civil, amb seu a Salamanca. Des de l’època coneguda com a transició política del franquisme a la democràcia, n’han reclamat el retorn persones i institucions diferents —principalment la Generalitat de Catalunya— i pràcticament tots els grups polítics han fet intervencions parlamentàries en aquest sentit. S’avalua l’opinió pública formada a partir d’uns dos-cents documents (articles, entrevistes i altres tipus de col•laboracions) publicats a la premsa escrita editada a Espanya entre el juny i l’octubre de 2002, complementant-les amb les opinions expressades en fòrums de discussió tècnica com Arxiforum o Bibcat.

Tomando como fuente de información para esta comunicación el Repertorio EUROSPES de Bases de Datos en Ciencias Sociales editado en 1990, se analiza la oferta de Información a través de las Bases de Datos creadas en los países europeos de habla latina. El objetivo del trabajo que se presenta es conocer, de manera detallada, los rasgos que definen esta oferta en cada país y en el conjunto de países estudiados. Estructurado en dos partes, en la primera se ofrecen, en primer lugar, datos sobre las características de la información contenida en las bases de datos: naturaleza de la información, temas sobre los que versa, cobertura temporal, técnicas documentales utilizadas, normas de descripción bibliográfica, productores de esas Bases de Datos. En segundo lugar, se estudian los aspectos relativos a la distribución de la información: distribuidores, -paquetes de gestión de bases de datos, instrumentos de ayuda al usuario para las consultas, tipo de acceso que se ofrece. La segunda parte se dedica al análisis de los datos aportados en la primera: distribución de la producción de bases de datos por temas, países y años, estudio de las áreas temáticas no cubiertas, comparación de las técnicas documentales empleadas, compatibilidad de los paquetes de gestión y de los formatos informáticos, análisis de la calidad de los servicios de acceso, precios, formación ofrecida, etc. Se finaliza con unas conclusiones orientadas a proponer los desarrollos deseables para el conjunto de paises así como las posibilidades de cooperación con vistas a mejorar la oferta de información automatizada en Ciencias Sociales.

Estudi tipològic sobre les fórmules de publicació i les vies d’accés a la bibliografia científica en l’entorn actual de comunicació digital i en xarxa. Es parteix del concepte d’article de revista com a unitat ben definida i estable en l’entorn imprès, i com a nucli sobre el qual s’ha fonamentat la comunicació acadèmica i professional des del naixement de la revista científica en el segle XVII. S’analitzen les transformacions que permet l’entorn digital en la comunicació científica i es descriuen algunes de les pràctiques observades entre autors, institucions de recerca, empreses editorials i institucions bibliotecàries com a resposta a les noves possibilitats de l’article tant com a producte com pel que respecta al procés de crear-lo i distribuir-lo. Aquestes transformacions afecten la naturalesa mateixa de l’article com a unitat mínima, única i estable de comunicació científica. Es conclou que sota formes documentals d’agregació editorial i de control bibliogràfic ben diferenciades, a voltes simultànies o àdhuc aparentment contradictòries, aflora una comunicació científica més plural. Aquesta pluralitat es concreta en més possibilitats de comunicació per als autors, menys nivells d’intermediació quant als agents que intervenen i afegeixen valor al producte, més disponibilitat per als usuaris des del punt de vista econòmic i d’accés, i més interacció i riquesa de continguts gràcies a les noves possibilitats multimèdia i hipertextuals.Study of the publication models and the means of accessing scientific literature in the current environment of digital communication and the web. The text introduces the concept of journal article as a well-defined and stable unit within the publishing world, and as a nucleus on which professional and scholarly communication has been based since its beginnings in the 17th century. The transformation of scientific communication that the digital world has enabled is analysed. Descriptions are provided of some of the practices undertaken by authors, research organisations, publishers and library-related institutions as a response to the new possibilities being unveiled for articles, both as products as well as for their creation and distribution processes. These transformations affect the very nature of articles as a minimal unit -both unique and stable- of scientific communication. The article concludes by noting that under varying documentary forms of publisher aggregation and bibliographic control -sometimes simultaneously and, even, apparently contradictory- there flourishes a more pluralistic type of scientific communication. This pluralism offers: more possibilities for communication among authors; fewer levels of intermediaries such as agents that intervene and provide added value to the products; greater availability for users both economically speaking and from the point of view of access; and greater interaction and wealth of contents, thanks to the new hypertext and multimedia possibilities.Estudio tipológico sobre las fórmulas de publicación y las vías de acceso a la bibliografía científica en el actual entorno de comunicación digital y en red. Se parte del concepto de artículo de revista como unidad bien definida y estable en el entorno impreso, y como núcleo sobre el cual se ha fundamentado la comunicación académica y profesional desde el nacimiento de la revista científica en el siglo XVII. Se analizan las transformaciones que permiten el entorno digital en la comunicación científica y se describen algunas de las prácticas observadas entre autores, instituciones de investigación, empresas editoriales e instituciones bibliotecarias como respuesta a las nuevas posibilidades del artículo tanto como producto como en lo que respecta al proceso de crearlo y distribuirlo. Estas transformaciones afectan a la misma naturalesa del artículo como unidad mínima, única y estable de comunicación científica. Se concluye señalando que, bajo formas documentales de agregación editorial y de control bibliográfico bien diferenciadas, a veces simultáneas o incluso aparentemente contradictorias, aflora una comunicación científica más plural. Esta pluralidd se concreta en más posibilidades de comunicación para los autores, menos niveles de intermediación en cuanto a los agentes que intervienen y añaden valor al producto, más disponibilidad para los usuarios desde el punto de vista económico y de acceso, y más interacción y riqueza de contenidos gracias a las nuevas posibilidades multimedia e hipertextuales.

Introduction. This is the written version of the keynote address (Making user studies matter: Thank you Mister Feynman and Monsieur Foucault) delivered by senior author Dervin. The paper is linked to the Invited Paper in this issue and like that paper, reports on a project involving a dialogue between researchers and practitioners in library and information science, human computer interaction, and communication focusing on gaps in our understandings of users and audiences as well as in our efforts to collaborate with each other to conduct and apply research to the design and implementation of information, library, communication, and media systems. Argument. Our main conclusion in Paper 1 was that the traditional modes used for communication in social science research are not doing the job for user and audience studies. We set out five propositions relating to this conclusion: (1) the traditional modes of communicating in the research enterprise are not working; (2) Do the social sciences matter? Some serious and fundamental attacks; (3) a call to focus on the special problematics of the social sciences: agency, structure, power and the good; (4) eschewing scientific recipes and scholarly creeds and bringing back the joys of adventuring and muddling; (5) the paradox of communicatingfreedom is another word for nothing left to lose. Conclusion. We argue for shared dialogue in communicating across the three fields studied here: this will introduce uncertainty, but, rather than relying upon 'authority', the individual will be encouraged through the exploration of that uncertainty, to make their own sense of the offerings of others.

To discover the features associated with personal and professional lives of university teachers, in the area of health sciences in the “Comunidad Valenciana” for the period 2003-2007, to learn if they contribute to a greater or lesser scientific productivity. Were interviewed in depth 30 teachers aged between 30 and 60 years in order to identify factors that hamper productivity. Have more difficulties to publish scientific papers, teachers less productive. Represent obstacles: the labor problems, the difficulty to obtain science projects and to publish in certain journals, to balance teaching and research, care work in hospitals, the maternity and children. Although the two groups of large and small producers point to the same problems in their work and personal life, are perceived more difficulties in the group of less productive. Most offer the same kind of solutions to reduce the gender distance.

El contexto de génesis, uso y conservación de los documentos de archivo sugiere una interesante vinculación entre descripción archivística e Historia Social de la Cultura Escrita. Los rastros de la escritura dejados al paso del sentimiento, de la pasión o del odio, se concretan en tipologías documentales específicas que amplían el conocimiento de los testimonios textuales y gráficos propios de los archivos personales y familiares. Amor y muerte, tomados como extremos de la condición humana generan prácticas de escritura que hacen posible la comunicación entre presentes y ausentes. Se estudian prácticas, resultados y representaciones del amar y morir por escrito, que establecen un vínculo que abarca no sólo siglos porque, en realidad, se trata de necesidades atemporales de documentar los hechos significativos de las emociones y los sentimientos humanos próximos a esos dos horizontes representados por Eros y Tánatos.The context of creation, use and conservation of records suggests an interesting parallel between archival description and Social History of Written Culture. Writings alluding to feelings take specific forms and types that broaden knowledge of textual and graphic testimony to include personal and family papers and keepsakes. The themes of love and death, understood as extremes of the human condition, engender writing practices that attempt to bridge the gap between the absent and the living. Representational practices in written artifacts are studied from the perspective of the timeless need to record the significant facts of the human experience of Eros and Thanatos.

Este artículo tuvo como propósito hacer un análisis crítico de los niveles de participación de asistentes, presentadores (pósteres) y ponentes que tomaron parte en el más reciente Congreso anual de la IFLA, que tuvo lugar en Puerto Rico entre el 13 y el 18 de agosto de 2011. Estos niveles de participación dan cuenta de la representatividad de los distintos países en este tipo de eventos, y en el caso concreto de nuestro interés, de las posibilidades de los países latinoamericanos, sus asociaciones, bibliotecas, escuelas, facultades y profesionales de la información de intervenir en ellos y dar a conocer los desarrollos teóricos-conceptuales y prácticos de nuestra región.

Este trabajo tiene por objetivo determinar la posible correlación existente entre la producción científica española cubierta por las 100 revistas SCI con mayores factores de impacto y la presencia de investigadores españoles en los consejos o comités científicos de dichas revistas. El análisis de la composición de los consejos editoriales ha permitido constatar que la adscripción de instituciones científicas europeas en los comités o consejos editoriales de las 100 primeras revistas del JCR es muy reducida, estando estos órganos mayoritariamente constituidos por investigadores norteamericanos y británicos. La presencia de miembros de instituciones científicas españolas en los comités editoriales es significativamente escasa, tanto desde una perspectiva mundial como a escala europea. De los 3.474 miembros identificados, únicamente 16 son investigadores españoles y participan en los comités de 9 revistas. Por otra parte, estas 9 revistas, no muestran unas cifras de producción científica española mayores que las correspondientes a países con notables semejanzas científicas con España, como Italia u Holanda. Estos indicadores pretenden servir de base para el debate y la posible implementación de medidas para incrementar la presencia española en comités editoriales de las principales revistas científicas de proyección internacional.

Internet knowledge is increasing steadily among instructors in the academic world. As courses incorporate more instructional technology, traditional undergraduate research assignments are adapting to reflect the changing world of information and information access. New library assignments reflect this shift as well, with term papers and research projects asking students to use Web sites as an information resource, in addition to the standard literature of periodicals and monographs. But the many pitfalls the library profession has learned in its own metamorphosis during the past decade are often repeated in these newer course assignments. The authors in this paper present a framework for librarians to interact with instructors to incorporate Internet resources into traditional term paper and research assignments. They suggest a framework for creating sample assignments librarians can take to campus instructional units, to show the teaching community at large what the library profession has learned from first-hand experience.

Introduction. This paper reports preliminary research in a primarily experimental study of how the general public search for information on the Web. The focus is on the query transformation patterns that characterise searching. Method. In this work, we have used transaction logs from the Excite search engine to develop methods for analysing query transformations that should aid the analysis of our ongoing experimental work. Our methods involve the use of similarity techniques to link queries with the most similar previous query in a train. The resulting query transformations are represented as a list of codes representing a whole search. Analysis. It is shown how query transformation sequences can be represented as graphical networks and some basic statistical results are shown. A correlation analysis is performed to examine the co-occurrence of Boolean and quotation mark changes with the syntactic changes. Results. A frequency analysis of the occurrence of query transformation codes is presented. The connectivity of graphs obtained from the query transformation is investigated and found to follow an exponential scaling law. The correlation analysis reveals a number of patterns that provide some interesting insights into Web searching by the general public. Conclusion. We have developed analytical methods based on query similarity that can be applied to our current experimental work with volunteer subjects. The results of these will form part of a database with the aim of developing an improved understanding of how the public search the Web.

Introduction. This paper proposes a model of information behaviour of women during their life-long struggle to maintain normal weight. Method. The model is integrative and contextual, built on existing models in information science and several other disciplines, and the life stories of about fifty Israeli women aged 25-55 and interviews with professionals. Analysis. The life stories of the participating women were analyzed qualitatively, major themes and phases were identified. Results. Weight loss and/or maintenance behaviour is a lifetime process in which distinctive stages were identified. In most cases the weight gain - weight loss - maintenance cycle is a recurring cycle. Information is a major resource during the process: several roles of information were defined: enabling, motivating, reinforcing, providing background information related to weight problems and creating the internal cognitive schema related to food and weight. Information behaviour and the roles of information vary with the different stages. Information needs are also influenced by the specific stage of the process. Information gathered at previous cycles is reused, and information gained through previous experience effects behaviour in the current cycle. Conclusion. The model has both theoretical and practical implications.

Introduction. This paper investigates the ways in which spatial factors have been approached in information seeking studies. The main attention was focused on studies discussing information seeking on the level of source selection and use. Method. Conceptual analysis of about 100 articles and books thematizing spatial issues of information seeking. Due to research economy, the main attention was paid to studies on everyday life information seeking. Results. Three major viewpoints were identified with regard to the degree of objectivity of spatial factors. The objectifying approach conceives of spatial factors as external and entity-like qualifiers that primarly constrain information seeking. The realistic-pragmatic approach emphasizes the ways in which the availabilty of information sources in different places such as daily work environments orient information seeking. The perspectivist approach focuses on how people subjectively assess the significance of various sources by means of spatial constructs such as information horizons. Conclusion. Spatial factors are centrally important contextual qualifiers of information seeking. There is a need to further explore the potential of the above viewpoints by relating the spatial and temporal factors of information seeking.

Introduction. The Internet has radically changed the global availability of scholarly publications. Today, a substantial part of the resources accessible for researchers and university students are offered through electronic site licenses, making the supply of easily obtainable information larger than ever. This brings forth an important question: what are the qualitative and quantitative effects of this development on the use of reference material in research and studies? Method. To address the research question, masters theses reference lists from 1985, 1993 and 2003 were studied in three disciplines: economics, psychology and mathematics, followed by semi-structured interviews of students who had finished their thesis in 2003. Analysis. The quantitative data was analysed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) with the statistical program SPSS, where the significance of the results was measured with Dunnets t-test. Results. The findings showed a substantial increase in the use of scholarly articles as references throughout the studied time periods, although the amount of other information sources had remained largely unchanged. There were also significant differences between the three disciplines in the contents of their reference lists, the amount of Internet resources that students used, how they sought and obtained publications, and how they selected their sources. Conclusion. . The Internet appears to have had a profound effect on the type and quantity of information that students use as references in masters theses. One of the main problems that students reported was a lack of training in information seeking, and the abundance of irrelevant information on the Internet. Many respondents would have needed additional training on using library databases.

Para determinar la aptitud de materiales de embalaje elaborados en papel/cartón y empleados en diferentes instituciones públicas a cargo de patrimonio documental costarricense, se llevó a cabo la medición de la acidez (pH) de los materiales, así como el uso de espectroscopía infrarroja para estudiar los cambios en la estructura cristalina de las moléculas de la celulosa del papel, las cuales influyen en la oxidación y degradación de la celulosa como consecuencia del envejecimiento (Chiriu et al., 2018). Estudiar los materiales empleados para embalar y almacenar documentos con valor histórico/patrimonial resulta de alta importancia ya que son estos los que se mantienen en contacto directo con los bienes por años, inclusive décadas. En total se llevó a cabo la medición de las propiedades fisicoquímicas en cuatro estadios de envejecimiento diferentes (0, 8, 15 y 28 días), para comparar los resultados y conocer los cambios y degradaciones en los materiales, esto con el fin de establecer cuáles de los materiales muestreados resultan más aptos para embalar patrimonio documental, tanto a corto como a largo plazo, y según los parámetros analizados = In order to determine the suitability of packaging materials made of paper/cardboard and used in different public institutions in charge of Costa Rican documentary heritage, the measurement of the acidity (pH) of the materials was carried out, as well as the use of infrared spectroscopy to study the changes in the crystalline structure of paper cellulose molecules, which influence the oxidation and degradation of cellulose as a consequence of aging (Chiriu et al., 2018). Studying the materials used to package and store documents with historical/heritage value is of high importance since these are the ones that remain in direct contact with the cultural assets for years, even decades. In total, the measurement of the physicochemical properties was carried out in four different aging stages (0, 8, 15 and 28 days) in order to compare the results and establish the changes and degradations in the materials, this to determine which of the sampled materials are more suitable for packaging documentary heritage, both in the short and long term, and according to the parameters analyzed.

En este estudio se propone una metodología utilizando OpenAlex (OA) para monitorear el acceso abierto (AA) a las publicaciones científicas para el caso de Argentina, país donde rige el mandato de autoarchivo -Ley 26.899 (2013)-. Se conformó una muestra con 167.240 artículos de investigadores del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) que se analizaron con técnicas estadísticas. Se estimó que OA puede representar entre 85-93% de los autores para todas las disciplinas, excepto Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, donde solo alcanza al 47%. Se calculó que 41% de los artículos publicados entre 1953-2021 incluidos en la fuente están en AA, porcentaje que sube a 46% al considerar exclusivamente el periodo post ley (2014-2021). En ambos periodos es la vía dorada la que representa mayor proporción. Al comparar periodos iguales post y pre ley, se observó que la tendencia en alza de la vía dorada era preexistente a la legislación y la disponibilidad de artículos cerrados en repositorios aumentó un 5% a lo que se estima en base a tendencias existentes. Se concluye que si bien la vía verde ha tenido una evolución positiva, ha sido la publicación en revistas doradas lo que ha impulsado más rápidamente el acceso a la producción argentina. Asimismo, que la metodología basada en OA, piloteada aquí por primera vez, es viable para monitorear el AA en Argentina ya que arroja porcentajes similares a otros estudios nacionales e internacionales = This study proposes a methodology using OpenAlex (OA) for tracking Open Access publications in the case of Argentina, a country where a self-archiving mandate has been in effect since 2013 (Law 26.899, 2013). A sample of 167,240 papers by researchers from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) was created and analyzed using statistical techniques. We estimate that OA is able to capture between 85-93% of authors for all disciplines, with the exception of Social Sciences and Humanities, where it only reaches an estimated 47%. The availability of papers in Open Access was calculated to be 41% for the period 1953-2021 and 46% when considering exclusively the post-law period (2014-2021). In both periods, gold Open Access made up the most common route. When comparing equal periods post and pre-law, we observed that the upward trend of gold Open Access was pre-existing to the legislation and the availability of closed articles in repositories increased by 5% to what is estimated based on existing trends. However, while the green route has had a positive evolution, it has been the publication in gold journals that has boosted access to Argentine production more rapidly. We concluded that the OA-based methodology, piloted here for the first time, is viable for tracking Open Access in Argentina since it yields percentages similar to other national and international studies.

The Internet and the popularization of smartphones in the 21st century have given instantaneity to information. By these same digital means –imbued with the power to influence politics, the market, culture, and health– disinformation blossoms. Censorship, understood as the suppression of content and/or suspension of users on social media, has been used as one way to combat disinformation on the Web. This drive to sanitize digital networks carries inherent risks. In the context of ‘Infodemics,’ investment in user’s media education should be encouraged. As methodology, the phenomenon of disinformation on the Web and the efforts to curb it were researched in both scientific literature and in Brazilian legislation. To combat disinformation, the users’ education (in a sense of enabling them to filter, understand, and interpret the information that they gather) should be the main goal, as entrusting this task to third parties could bring undesirable side effects. Meanwhile, platforms, traditional media, and governments pose as ‘Guardians of the Truth.’ The social impacts of disinformation and of the efforts to suppress false content on the Web are discoursed in this paper through usage of MapReduce Text Mining. The paper concludes that disinformation takes on many connotations –from humorous appeal to manipulation–. As long as the users’ informational competence has not been developed, both the platforms as well as governments must act to minimize the undesirable effects of this phenomenon.

Resumo Estudos têm contribuído para a definição de importantes diretrizes acerca da conservação de documentos de arquivo e, em especial, a conservação preventiva, fomentando a discussão e a consolidação de políticas que busquem auxiliar na preservação dos acervos. Nessa perspectiva, a presente pesquisa, realizada em parceria entre o Instituto de Ciências Humanas e da Informação - curso de Arquivologia -, e a Escola de Química e Alimentos da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, tem como objetivo avaliar possíveis ações de danos provocados pelo uso das folhas autoadesivas nos documentos textuais em suporte papel, visando contribuir com as discussões e estudos sobre a temática de conservação e preservação dos acervos. A metodologia para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho foi dividida em etapas que consistiram em: seleção da amostragem e pesquisa sobre o surgimento dos blocos autoadesivos, revisão do referencial teórico, análise dos dados coletados través da técnica de microscopia eletrônica de varredura e posterior divulgação dos resultados da pesquisa.

Analisa aspectos temáticos de 217 Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso produzidos por alunos do Departamento de Biblioteconomia e Documentação da Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo, no período de 1987 a 2002, conforme resumos publicados pela LISA-Library and Information Science Abstracts. A categoria temática mais trabalhada foi "Biblioteca e Centro de Informação", com os assuntos específicos "Biblioteca Pública" e "Biblioteca de Assuntos Especiais", seguida de "Comunicação Informacional", com os assuntos específicos "Serviço de informação" e "Trabalho de referência". Constatou-se uma concentração de trabalhos em cinco categorias, refletindo o "perfil temático" da produção de Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso do Departamento, que deixa, nas demais categorias temáticas, uma vasta lacuna a ser explorada pelos alunos de graduação.

This paper aims to analyze the online transparency of Spanish higher education institutions and examine the factors that explain the degree of online transparency achieved by these institutions. To this end, this paper analyses the institutional websites of all Spanish universities and develops a global transparency index comprising of four dimensions (“E-information”, “E-Services”, “E-Participation” and “Navigability, Design and Accessibility”). This paper evidences that Spanish universities are aware of the importance of having a web page with adequate navigability, design and accessibility. In contrast, the “E-information” is the least valued dimension, particularly concerning the disclosure about Community services and Outcomes of teaching services. Moreover, the results show that internationality, leverage and size positively affect the online transparency in Spanish universities. From a practical point of view, our findings could be used by university’ managers, regulators and standard-setting bodies to improve the online transparency in universities.

Scientific knowledge has a well-established cycle of generating hypotheses, testing them in experiments with proper discussion, and submitting it to the scientific community analysis through publications. It takes time to establish sample size for biomedical studies, especially concerning the effect of medicines and vaccines. The World Health Organization’s protocol estimates that more than 19 months of experiments are necessary to approve a vaccine, for example. As the world has witnessed, a pandemic with immediate impact on human lives urges scientific methods to speed up finding solutions. Here it was assessedthe speed and volume of information generated by the Academia to tackle the COVID-19 compared to the Swine Flu pandemic. Were considered papers published in journals indexed in PubMed, the most comprehensive biomedical scientific database available online. The number of publications about COVID-19 was 11 times higher than the number of publications about Swine Flu in a one-year timeframe. Though the expectation were findingmore international collaborations and studies focusing on vaccines for COVID-19, papers were mostly concentrated in China and studying symptoms, managing the pandemic, reviewing knowledge, or establishing clinical trials. For sure, science is working faster every day for solutions in biomedical critical situations. However, the fast volume of information might blurry decisions on public health management. This paper’s results show it is mandatory before using papers to take actions, waiting for the scientific community to first progress on its scientific knowledge cycle and mature discussions on the generated knowledge.

A diferencia de otros países, la denominada como Feria Internacional del Libro de España (LIBER) actualmente no es tan popular e incluso podríamos decir que se encuentra en pleno proceso de redefinir qué rol debe jugar en el campo editorial español e internacional. A pesar de ello, LIBER encuentra todavía buena acogida entre los distribuidores españoles e iberoamericanos. De todo ello dará cuenta este artículo, apoyándose tanto en documentación y entrevistas como en fuentes diversas recabadas a lo largo de un trabajo de campo realizado en LIBER Madrid durante los meses finales de 2017. Una edición de la feria que contó además con Argentina como país invitado de honor, cuya presencia será también analizada aquí pormenorizadamente = Nowadays, the Spanish International Book Fair (LIBER) is not very popular, and it is redefining its own role within the Spanish publishing field. However, LIBER is still a suitable event for Spanish and Latin America distributors. This work deals with these issues informed by a field work carried out in the fair during the last months of 2017. LIBER´2017 had also Argentina as Guest of Honour, which performance is analysed in detail in this paper.

Las nuevas tecnologías digitales han modificado sustancialmente la forma en la cual se comunica el conocimiento científico. Este trabajo se propone evaluar el impacto de la implementación de un plan de comunicación sociodigital para la revista Arqueología (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires), diseñado para favorecer la diseminación y el alcance de los contenidos publicados a través del ecosistema digital. Para ello se realizó una propuesta metodológica a fin de evaluar su visibilidad en las redes sociales, el comportamiento de los usuarios en la página web y el impacto de los contenidos publicados durante el período 2018-2022, a partir de distintos indicadores altmétricos y bibliométricos. Como resultado se constató que los efectos de la pandemia, así como la ejecución de una estrategia de difusión, aumentaron la visibilidad de la publicación en redes sociales, generando un incremento en la cantidad de visualizaciones y descargas de los artículos. Estos hallazgos subrayan la relevancia de considerar diversas dimensiones de interacción en línea para comprender el impacto académico de las investigaciones científicas = New digital technologies have modified the way scientific knowledge is being communicated. This work intends to evaluate the impact of a socio-digital communication plan implemented for the journal Arqueología (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires), designed to boost the distribution and outreach of published content in the digital ecosystem. We proposed a method to evaluate the journal’s visibility in social networks, website user behavior and the impact of the published content from 2018 to 2022, based on different altmetric and bibliometric indicators. The results of said analysis show that the effects of the pandemic coupled with the implementation of a dissemination strategy increased the journal’s visibility in social networks, which in turn produced an increase in the number of views and downloads of its papers. These findings highlight the importance of considering various types of online interaction to better understand the academic impact of scientific research.

Television broadcasts around the world employ specific hashtags to facilitate viewer engagement via social media with program hosts. In the context of news broadcasts, individuals' comments mix with the articles shown on television news, mainly in relation to urban situations. These social media posts constitute a significant database, as users assume roles similar to those of citizens. The aim of this paper is to scrutinize the posts associated with the hashtags #VcNoJL1 and #VcNoJL2, publishe on the Twitter (X) platform, in the context of the TV news program TV Liberal, broadcast in the State of Pará (Brazil), using the CRISP-DM methodology and data science techniques. Using a statistical examination of these publications, a discreet level of engagement was observed among viewers, who are also users of the aforementioned social media platform. Furthermore, a sentiment assessment of the posts was carried out, revealing that 54% of the comments are negative, 31% are positive and 15% are neutral. The negative comments notably highlight the challenges within municipal public administration, while the positive comments are around commemorative occasions such as Mother's Day and Grandparents' Day. This type of analysis constitutes an important monitoring tool not only for the television program, but also for public administration.