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Predatory journals have been defined as a fraudulent model that takes advantage of the golden route implemented by some open access publications. These journals exploit the business of charging authors, promising quick and low-cost publication. However, they do not comply with the tasks of any scientific journal, such as peer review or digital preservation of original writings, and therefore they publish papers of questionable quality, methodology and reproducibility. For these reasons, this research aims to determine the level of knowledge that active researchers of the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM) have about predatory journals. For the study, a survey was used as a data collection instrument, which was sent to the active researchers from the UTEM. From the results obtained, it was possible to conclude that the UTEM researchers are familiar with the term predatory journals and can identify certain characteristics of these journals, such as the fact that they do not perform an adequate peer review process, offer a fast publication process at low cost, and have similar titles to those of renowned journals, in addition to being able to identify some tools for their detection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Blockchain technology has gained significant prominence in the business world. Its impact has been felt in many sectors, but its integration and interoperability remain complex. Many challenges remain, both for users and business consultants, as well as for IT engineers. One of the challenges identified by the research community is the need to provide mechanisms to specify, verify and validate the requirements and business rules that smart contracts must comply with before they can be deployed in a blockchain network. This paper describes a proposal, based on model-driven and useroriented engineering, that aims to obtain functional verification from smart contract specifications in a systematic way. This proposal has been validated in the SmartISBN project, an R+D+i project whose objectives included ensuring the software quality of smart contracts and, above all, improving the traceability of digital publishing (electronic books and journals) using blockchain technology. In this context, this proposal has facilitated the communication between functional experts (authors, publishers, booksellers, etc.) and IT engineers during the specification phase of the global SmartISBN solution and in particular of the smart contracts, as well as during the definition of the functional tests necessary for the validation of the project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to identify and study the documentation on benefices to parishes in the Ecclesiastical Archives of Mérida-Badajoz (Spain). In order to do this, an analysis of the history of the archive and its documentation is presented, in order to later focus on the beneficio curato, showing an approach to the process and a specific study of the documentation kept in these archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spanish scientific production and technology transfer that it entails are constantly growing, and consequently that of the Autonomous Communities as well. However, this does not mean that all the Autonomous Communities evolve in the same way, nor that they all implement the same policies. In this paper we present a comparison of investment in R&D&i, scientific production, and its transfer to the productive fabric of the seventeen Spanish Autonomous Communities in the period 2003-2020. The data used to carry out this work has been extracted from three of the platforms created by the SCImago group: SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJ&CR), SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) and SCImago Patents Rank (SPR) (under development) based on information included in Elsevier's Scopus database and PATSTAT. In total, 1,276,914 primary documents published in the 2003-2020 period have been recovered, signed by authors affiliated to Spanish institutions that have been disaggregated at the level of Autonomous Communities. With them, a battery of indicators of scientific production (12), its technological impact (5) and technology transfer (5) has been generated, in addition to its variation rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows how Plan S arises and works, the impact it can have on the subscriptions of the scientific and academic journals of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), as well as the first approaches of some publishers who see in this University and Latin America an opportunity to implement this new publication model. The way of publishing has changed due to the use of technologies that have brought with it the emergence of the Open Access (OA) movement derived from the Budapest Open Access initiative proposed by the Open Society Institute in 2001. Plan S is an initiative that arises in 2018 to accelerate the transition to Open Access, which will allow research results to have greater visibility and citation. Plan S includes transformative agreements that can be established between publishers and libraries, since it is intended to change the payment for subscription to journals for the Read and Publish model, where the publisher receives a payment to read and a payment to publish in a single contract, while under the Publish & Read model the editor only receives payment for the publication of articles by authors from an institution and the reading of journals is included at no additional cost, precisely at this point, the library plays a relevant role among the initiative and its academic community. Therefore, we agree that Plan S, the cOAlition S initiative and the transformative agreements are a great support for open access publishing, since they directly lower the costs of the Article Processing Charges (APC) and offer researchers various options for publish their findings or advances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The applicability of archival identification to personal archives is explored. The goal is to evidence the role of archival identification in the organization method of personal papers. In this sense, the hypothesis is explored that archival identification contributes largely to ensure to the appropriate treatment and custody of personal records, because it involves a deep study of the genesis of the archive, with the purpose to investigate its provenance, retrieve and show its inherent elements in their various levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the increase in neurodivergent students in higher education and the strengthening of the neurodiversity paradigm as a social movement, academic libraries must consider these users. The objective of the present study was to identify - through a systematic literature review - the actions that academic libraries have implemented in collections and services to address the need to include neurodivergence, focusing especially on diagnoses of dyslexia, attention deficit and hyperactivity, and autism spectrum disorder. A bibliographic search was conducted in the databases Web of Science, Scopus, Taylor & Francis, E-LIS, EBSCO, Jstor, Wiley, Network of Latin American Repositories, Web of Science, Scopus, SpringerLink y and Emerald. Out of the 799 initial results, 36 final papers were selected to review. It may be concluded that the actions carried out by academic libraries are diverse and heterogeneous, both in their conception and in their execution, and vary widely depending on the institution in which the library is framed. Services have been the elements most adapted to neurodivergent users, while collections are the least considered when taking inclusion actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, private records are considered important sources for research and for the preservation of memory, becoming the object of interest of public archives, when considering the expansion of their collections. Thus, it is necessary to discuss and improve the systems by which these additions are made, in order to make these acquisition processes representative and rationalized. As a resource to achieve these goals, the adoption of a collection acquisition policy brings transparency and normalization to the processes of incorporation of private documents to public institutions. In this sense, this paper seeks to discuss the process and rules of document acquisition by national archives, based on the study of two specific cases: the Brazilian Nacional Archives and the State Archives of Spain. For the development of this study, we divided the research into three parts: (1) theoretical survey; (2) data collection from the institutions object of the study; (3) data analysis. As a result, we were able to identify that acquisition policies are an important tool to regulate the incorporation of private records by state public archives, however, these procedures still need to be improved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Methodological criteria that may serve as a guideline to monetize press photographic collections from their reuse are presented and discussed. ABC (Spain) and The New York Times (USA) were taken as paradigms, and different aspects raised by the information and documentation professionals were considered: quantity and wealth of images, and internal and external demand. Every photographic press fund is susceptible to being monetized, although for its profitability it is necessary to design plans based on specific criteria such as the methodology proposed in this paper, which is based on three phases (prior, intermediate and applicative), and comprises the quantification, qualification, documentary treatment, users typology and dissemination. The analysis shows that a greater involvement on the part of photographers and press editors is necessary to make profitable the available photograph holdings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the scientific productivity on library buildings and spaces based on the analysis of the publications indexed in Scopus and LISTA in the period 2010-2020. The data extracted allow us to draw the general panorama of research works on this subject. The results include 305 papers pertinent to the research topic, related to 284 authors, 120 journals, 304 institutions, 46 countries and 9 languages. The most productive years are 2015 and 2016. The topics are grouped according to these 4 categories, which have emerged from the analysis itself: spaces, design and construction, remodeling, and trends. The conclusions show an outstanding scientific productivity on buildings and library spaces, quantitatively abundant and at the same time stable with fairly constant figures throughout the period. In the authorship variety and a certain dispersion can be appreciated. Co-authorship is present in 58 % of the works. 91.4 % of the publication sources are scientific journals, 6.5 % conference proceedings and 1.9 % book chapters. Scientific production is concentrated in university-level institutions. The variety of perspectives on which the theme of library buildings and spaces is addressed indicates that it is consolidated as an area of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The change in Administration of Justice towards the adoption of electronic files has experienced notable difficulties because of the huge volume of files that are currently open and only available in paper format, or combining elements both in paper and electronic. This article proposes a practical measure towards the progressive replacement of paper: the digitization, at the moment of the file breakdown, of the documents provided by the parts of a justice process, returning the originals to them, and their preservation in electronic format in the archives of the Administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a study of the websites of the Spanish universities, and the design of a quantitative metric for measuring their level of accessibility, in order to establish a ranking that can be used for evaluate and compare them. This study considered the website of 79 Spanish universities; they have been analyzed by measuring some web accessibilityrelated indicators, such as accessibility and standards guidelines compliance, compatibility, usability errors, etc. With the obtained results and the proposed metric, we have developed a ranking of universities that measure their web accessibility quality. The main goal of this paper is presenting the results of this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the contribution of the series of standards ISO 30300 to the efficient management of the judicial documentation. It takes into account the context of the Judicial Office and the Fiscal Office in Spain, and also the aim of the judicial system to provide an efficient service with quality. The methodology used is based in the search and analysis of the records generated by the Ministry of Justice to improve the court administration, the modernisation of the judicial archives, the implementation of the Judicial Office, and the legislation related. This paper describes the needs around the records management and the requirements offered by the standardard ISO 30301. Finally, it signals the need of more empirical studies about the implementation of management systems, the ISO 15489 in the Judicial Office and the Fiscal Office, the organisational culture, and the factors that can facilitate the implementation of the series 30300 in the administration of justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present a state of the art of competitive intelligence (CI). The literature is integrated by works written both by practitioners and academics. This fact and its multidisciplinary nature originate a scattering of subjects related to the processes of CI and its organisation, that requires an integrated approach. The paper exposes the topics detected: terminology, function organisation, processes, evaluation, models, and enablers and inhibitors of CI practices. Finally, ti is exposed that the need of continuing with empirical works that validate the construct, and lines of future research are suggested: the integration of the existent theoretical frameworks and the identification of the enablers and inhibitors of IC practices [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the experience gained between 2008 and 2012 in the construction of a Wikipedia consisting of concepts and terms of legal and technological character. As the wikipedia, which has the name Lefispedia, is accessible via the Internet, this paper shows general characteristics of the information that it contains, relevant information on its method of construction and the social impact achieved by a work originally planned for an academically closed enviroment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to share the information management experience in the field of youth performed in the Documentation Centre of the Basque Youth Observatory, as well as to draw attention to the wide range and types of sources and contents; which are useful for the formulation and execution of youth policies, programs and other actions conducted by youth technical experts and politicians. This article explains what kind of information is being looked up, how and where; which tools are used to keep well-informed in the youth field, where this information is collected and how it is spread. The objective is to provide a general overview and to outline a list of the localized information sources. This paper also covers the tools used to find and keep up with this type of information and what tools were used to collect it. It also names the elaborated products spread through different means. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents, based on a documentary research and content analysis, a chronological journey through the reality of Ibero-America regarding the topic of information literacy -INFOLIT. This journey begins in 1985, when the first work on the topic was published, until our days, when the papers are mainly related to the inclusion of information literacy into the curriculum and the use of e-learning platforms and Web 2.0 for teaching and learning information competencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the new context of the knowledge society, an essential aim for spatial planning is to establish the means to ensure the availability of the information needed to make decisions as far as development planning is concerned. Access to this type of information is a necessary tool for both public and private institutions, as well as for economic and social agents, to make decisions more easily. This paper offers a study related to the planning of the Centro de Documentación e Información Territorial de Aragón (CDITA) (Territorial Documentation and Information Centre of Aragón), which belongs to the Spatial Planning Section of Aragón's Regional Government. It presents its executive summary, vision, mission, strategic and operational objectives and SWOT analysis. Subsequently, this paper details the actions carried out by the CDITA to achieve its objective of diffusing territorial information, paying special attention to the publication of its contents on the Aragón's Regional Government Official Web Portal. Finally, future challenges and perspectives will be put forth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, many Library & Information Science (LIS) professionals still do not know their precise role in the development of the Semantic Web, especially those aspects concerning ontologies. This paper intends to contribute clarifying this issue in a twofold manner: 1) identifying main trends, issues and problems concerning ontology research; and 2) identifying possible contributions from the LIS area to the development of ontologies for the semantic web. To do so, a thorough literature review based on searches in international databases (LISA, SCI, SSCI, ACM Digital Library and IEEE Explore) is carried out. Then, the paper presents a discussion of the main trends, issues and problems concerning ontology research. Recommendations of possible LIS contributions to the development of ontologies for the semantic web are finally presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term information can be used under different meanings depending on the context and the field it is inserted. More specifically in the Law field, the Brazilian Federal Constitution from 1988 gives special importance to information because it becomes a part of the fundamental rights of the citizens. This paper aims to identify and to analyze the thematic dimensions of the term information in the mentioned Federal Constitution, by means of the application of Bardin's methodology of content analysis and according to subject categories previously established by Santos (2017). It is possible to conclude that although there is a considerably low incidence of the term information, it receives a high specificity in the analyzed document, and is more directly related to the information access ant to the information freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Precedents and dossiers developed by the document services of Parliaments are both a very useful tool in the Legislative Process. From a practice point of view, this paper tries to show these information products from the study of their goals, methodology and users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at analysing the perception and attitudes of editors of Spanish scientific journals about some of the most important advances in scholarly communication linked with ICTs and the Internet: the advantages and disadvantages attributed to open access, open peer review and alt-metrics. Fifteen indepth interviews have been conducted with the people in charge of Spanish journals indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus, attending to a fair representation of all areas of knowledge. Findings show a wide negative perception of all these tools, due to the fear of a loss of reputation for the journal which may use these innovations. Only open access is positively perceived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Citizen participation is a concept that is increasingly present in the literature on the management of public services in general and of libraries in particular. This concept refers to the gradual inclusion of citizens in the decision making of services. This paper aims to demonstrate that citizen participation can be understood as a basic element of library management, allowing to know what citizens want and to manage library services more efficiently and effectively. For that, first the characteristics of citizen participation and its advantages are defined. Secondly, indicated the experience at the Salamanca Public Library is presented, which confirms the applicability of participatory dynamics to establish a normalized relationship with the community and promote active citizenship. The article concludes by reflecting on the application of this movement in the librarian environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The legal nature of document custody changes when it moves from paper documents to electronic ones. With the current Spanish regulation, it no longer constitutes a deposit agreement, although many of the depositary's obligations continue to be applicable. On the other hand, it can be considered as a service of the information society and therefore is applicable the liability regime established for them in the Spanish Law of Services for the Information Society and also as a processing of data on behalf of third party, when documents contain personal data. However, the most important changes are due to the constitution by the eIDAS European Union Regulation of the preservation of electronic signatures and electronic stamps as a trust service. The emergence of this new figure raises numerous questions about who are the agents indicated to carry out each of the functions associated with the preservation of authentic electronic records for extended periods of time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper identifies how the concept of information culture has been defined and approched in the Spanish scientific literature on Information Science. It is defended that 'culture' needs a definition that includes all the several elements that are influential in the sociocultural context of the organization management. Thus, information culture is metioned in three different approaches: management, socio-educational and communication technology. Such uses express that information culture is a socio-cultural context that influences people behavior regarding the use and production of information. The review of the scientific literature in Information Science has showed differences in this matter between Spain and other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The experience gained in a pilot test for the management and development of the scientific visibility and digital identity of the researchers of the Universidad de Guadalajara’s Research Center on Feeding Behavior and Nutrition is documented, systematized and assessed. The intentions, justification and reach of this experience are described in this paper, as well as its design, contents and development stages. The results obtained with the implementation of the pilot test are shown. A reflection on a possible future design of an institutional strategy for the promotion, communication and academic positioning in the 2.0 web of the community of research centers and institutes of the UdeG is made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hybrid libraries allow a greater interaction between the professional practice and the users of an information unit. In this sense, they are information links between traditional and digital libraries. Due to their greater flexibility in offering services and products, they must be studied using a rich methodology that can be adapted to the form and statements stemmed from those environments. Its social perspective provides the organizational structure with policies for the development of communities, also contributing to a good functioning of the institution. In that perspective, the research question of this paper refers to the potential of hybrid libraries for society. The discourse analysis based on Orlandi, that revises the works of Foucault and Pêcheux in advertising, enables the analysis of the discourse of the Central Library at Liverpool in the United Kingdom. This institution, through the inclusion of another information unit such as the archive, reflects the ideal of a hybrid library to be applied in other information units. The analysis found that the adaptation of other information units such as archives to the hybrid library environment affects the ability of users to discover new information and investigate the information that the library is providing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to show the usefulness and importance of the parish records for works of historical and demographic character and provide an overview of the methodological approaches and tools to extract information from such records in order to develop a study on evolution of the population. To do this, the possible methods of exploitation of the sources, content analysis techniques and basic computer programs for their development are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Castilian ecclesiastic governmental documentation of the Early Modern Age is still an obscure subject. We ignore the document typologies, and the structure and operating rules of the diocesan administration of that historic period. This paper explores such questions through the study of the public examinations of parish benefits of the Diocese of Badajoz (Spain), which was the established system to select new priests during the ordinary months in the Castilian dioceses in the Council of Trent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The changes in the information technologies of the last two decades, represented by the democratization of the Internet and the availability of portable and intelligent handhelds, is associated with new business, communication and communicative models. The high service capacities of today's smartphones have enabled a two-way dynamic processing of great amounts of content. The users gather in virtual communities and become both consumers and producers of information: prosumers. These contents come from or are allocated in the cloud or other platforms, and spread rapidly through the net. In this paper, the evolution of information fluxes is analyzed in three phases of the Information Society or Net Society, and the theory around user-generated content and media convergence is discussed. Each phase is represented in a cyclical model articulating data dealing, the new roles of users and the impact of technology. On the basis of these models, news discourses and content may be anticipated for various purposes. A flow model based on algorithms determined by the personal preferences of users is finally proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper considers information demands for documental proof, consideeing documents a representation of reality that can be backed by their formal values. It uses concepts from diplomatics and archival science that have aided to think about the act of composing a formal document. It also dialogues with approaches from history that have helped us to think about the theoretical perspective that intends to extract realistic elements from documents for the representation of the reality. Finally, some theoretical historiographic perspectives that are questioning historical documents and discourses as representation are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Opinion survey on the presence of the ebook in the environment of Libraries Groups on Science (GBC). Two questionnaires, one applied to the head librarians and another aimed at end users (researchers, teachers and students) were performed. In this paper the results corresponding to the survey of head librarians. The percentages allocated by libraries to purchase electronic books, factors that influence their purchase, most appropriate purchasing model, most used formats, means offering ebooks, advantages and disadvantages compared to the printed book and diffusion are treated points. The results are useful indicators for decision-making regarding the acquisition and use of these materials in academic libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The archive of the Metropolitan Seminary San Aton of Badajoz custodies the documentation generated and received by this entity in the course of its long history, which goes back in the mid-17th century. The educational and pedagogical work developed by the Seminary of Badajoz was crucial to the educational history of Extremadura in the 18th and 19th centuries. This paper presents the comprehensive information system devoped for the preservation and disseminations of its holdings, which consist of three pillars: the catalogue, the thesaurus and the document management system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Acceptance tests represent the phase of the software development life cycle in which the development team and the user area of an information system must ensure that the developed system fulfils the defined requirements. In multidisciplinary teams, like is the case of document management systems that involve filmmakers, archivists and computer engineers among others, this is a phase that must be properly planned and must provide the most suitable management mechanisms to ensure proper execution. This paper presents the adaptation of an agile mechanism based on the Scrum methodology, giving high importance to this phase. So, it is proposed to perform this phase incrementally, preventing this phase to be executed only at the end of development and providing mechanisms for early detection of functional inconsistencies. This approach has been developed within the context of THOT (Innovation project management applied to document records of recruitment services and transport infrastructure projects), developed by the University of Seville for the Public Works Agency project of the Junta de Andalucía. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Little research has been carried out on the presence of the Arab countries on the Internet, which goes to prove that the presence of the Arab world in the Web in general and of these countries' universities, in particular, is still at an emergent stage. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the presence of the aforementioned countries on the Internet in 2009 by the application of two types of indicators: technological indicators, which reveal the development of each country and the general evolution of Arab States; and webometric indicators, which allow to ascertain the presence and quality of the universities of the Arab world on the Internet. In particular, the countries under analysis herein are those in the Middle East and North Africa (i.e. the MENA region) and the websites of their universities. The findings and conclusions of this research project reveal that, although the financial situation of the countries is an influential factor in explaining their presence on the Web and the quality of their universities, this element must not be considered isolated, as other factors, such as population and the social, political or cultural opening of these countries, also have an impact on them. Furthermore, in the last years there has been an overall positive evolution of Arab States in respect of their technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A discussion, through a literature review, on the use of photographic documents and Documentary Analysis (DA) for the preservation, description and retrieval of images of pilgrimages in northeastern Brazil, which are archived at the Laboratory of Information Science and Memory (LACIM). The photograph acts as an expression of faith and devotion; it is a witnesses and documents, through images, the records of the dayto- day folk religion in its multiple meanings and situations, linked to the sacred. The DA -as a set of procedures performed after the reading of documents- facilitates the analysed collection location or query through the documentary language. This paper tries to show that the particular form of the information contained in a photographic archive echoes submerged memories of the pilgrims, authenticating a social fact in the country, capturing the sacredness from specific moments of celebration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports the Castilla-La Mancha University capability to train researchers in science and technology in the period 2002-2012. The analyzed variables were the number of PhD students enrolled in doctorate programs, the number of doctoral thesis, defended and supervised by professors from the departments selected for this study, as well as the thesis productivity of supervisors and departments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Contemporary Culture Channel of Andalusian Public Universities (CaCoCu) is a web platform with cultural contents, that basically contains audiovisual recordings of diverse cultural activities. CaCoCu was first presented in 2007 and has currently an important collection of documents. This paper describes its current state, the technological innovations that have recently been developed and the adaptation of the platform to adopt new vídeo standards, a better representation of knowledge, and the methodologies used for the dissemination of the channel through social networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the different forms and conditions of incorporating collections from the judiciary by executive bodies. For such, we use the custodial history of the Juízo de Órfãos de São Paulo archives as a reference. An instance of the Brazilian justice between the 16th and 20th centuries, the Juízo de Órfãos de São Paulo is currently fragmented in several institutions of custody and under different denominations. Similarly, other archives from judiciary bodies underwent similar processes for custody transfer. However, this type of situation is not restricted to the past: nowadays, even under legally established norms and guidelines for the implementation of document management programs, it is still possible to find, recurrently, the adoption of similar procedures for the incorporation of collections. We therefore intend to establish a parallel between these two moments and the Brazilian archival legislation in force [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aims of this study are to determine the influence and analyze the importance of reading habits as a leisure activity, and quantify the time dedicated to it, compared with other media, as television and radio. A questionnaire was used, adapted to characteristics of the population studied, and the data was processed with SPSS. To sum up, the profile of the most usual reader in the Universidad Europea de Madrid, is a woman, attending a degree in Communication and Humanities as a freshmen or sophomore. She reads novels and tales (in paper format and in Spanish) once or twice a week and much more during the holidays. She usually watches TV and uses Internet mainly to read the mail. She does not read the press everyday and goes to the library mainly to study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the value of the Mexican academic library along the lines proposed by the ACRL in its document Value of academic libraries: A comprehensive research review and report. It is a first advance of a broader research on library indicators of the Knowledge Society in Mexico. A general view on the role of the academic library in Mexico emphasizes the information literacy and services and electronic resources as the key factors to evidence the value that the library has for its institution success. Some of the main challenges that will be faced by the academic library in the near future are analyzed within the Mexican context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports about an experience of records management automation taking place at the Regional Government of Andalusia. The aim was making possible the document and archival management of its Autonomic Archives, and consisted in the development and application of the @rchivA Information System. It was developd in the context of the Electronic Administration Scheme of the Regional Government of Andalusia, as an cross-cutting and horizontal application for the development of the archival activity in this administration. This article tries to offer a panoramic vision on the state of the technological structure of the @rchivA Information System, that is adapted to the requirements of document management along each step of the whole life cycle of the records, as well as to the requirements of the archival management in administrative units that provide public services. Thereafter, the main management guidelines of the @rchiva Project are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is supported, in this text, that communication is a process, whose the efficacy depends on the presence of objects related to constituent elements and which maintains the main reference in the socio-cultural sphere. On the other hand, it essentially depends on the people's behaviour and on the instruments needed for its management. In this way, it is necessary to establish its main elements and to indicate a solution for the communication problem in the organizational environment. In this case, the determination of the essential elements of communication and in which way this determination can be reached is what composes this paper's central set of problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is aimed at conducting a theoretical study on copyright and on its relation to digital preservation by analyzing the copyright Law 9.610 in Brazil. One of the important aspects of digital preservation is copyright and its relation with the laws that govern it. In Brazil, the law that currently governs the copyright is the Law 9.160 from February 19th, 1998. Since any preservation strategy implies reproducing the digital object, to be considered as legal, the act of digital preservation must be based on the authorization of the copyright holder and on the existing legislation. By analyzing the law, it is possible to observe the need of revising it, mainly on issues related to the digital preservation and the availability of such information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces the concept of h-index and compares it with other bibliometric indicators of the most cited researchers in the periodicals from the area of Information Science in SciELO, in the theme of "Metric Studies". For each one of the 35 researchers under review. Were sought for in the Web of Science database, these indicators: h-index, total of published articles, total number of citations, average of citations and quotations from the most cited article. The data and the Pearson`s correlation between these indicators is presented. The results showed the highest correlation between the h-index and the total number of citations and between the h-index and the number of quotations from the most cited article. It is considered that the hindex is a relevant indicator of the accumulated production obtained by the researcher. However in order to get a full profile of each one, it must be complemented with other indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic libraries are facing the changes imposed by the information and knowledge society, and, in particular, the need to achieve a consistent qualitative change in their processes and services. Incorporating to the traditional flow of library work areas such as information literacy, evaluation and innovation is an essential challenge for present and future universities. This paper describes how these concepts are beginning to join the working philosophy of these institutions and how the new competencies that librarians and archivists must learn to achieve the advancement of the profession to new horizons are being incorporated. It is based in the results and conclusions from a focus group conducted by professionals from Latin America and the Caribbean in the field of library and information science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literature on malpractice and misconduct in scientific journals is reviewed and personal experiences derived from the participation of the author in evaluation and editorial committees are discussed. The great competitiveness of the society today causes authors, reviewers and editors to be more tempted to commit offenses that may distort the truth and erode the trust established in the current system of reporting science. These can be of different severity, from fabrication of evidence, falsification and plagiarism to picaresque attempts to get more credit with less effort. Improved transparency through increased access to scientific papers and information about their authors helps to improve the quality and integrity of scientific publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines certain principles specified in ethical codes related to rare book professionals. It delves into the deontological principles applicable to rare book trade and libraries, regarding both the actions of professionals working with them and the relationship between libraries and the community they serve. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of ethical concerns related to professional information searching from both a historical and contemporary point of view. Basic ethical questions and issues for searchers are formulated. A suggestion is made that a set of ethical guidelines for online searchers formulated a quarter century ago could be used, with some revision, even today. It is also suggested that "first do no harm" be the primary ethical principle for searchers. Following this a number of ethical guidelines for searchers and searching are formulated. Conclusions stress the importance of ethical consideration in searching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the time-series model is used to assess the e-mail-based online reference service of the IIMASUNAM library, with the aim of obtaining a prospective of its future trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]