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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]

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]

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]

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]

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 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]

The information sector is, by its nature, an heterogeneous sector. The diversity of the professional environments where these activities occur, the diversity of its actors and interpenetration of their duties make difficult to characterize the professional areas and their names. In this sense, the boundaries that separate the occupations of this sector are not clear. According Abbott (1988), all the professions form a system. In this system, the professions divide their spaces in accordance with the power of that each one. The history of these disputes determines the history of professions. The difficulty in define the field of the information professions is a consequence of these interactions, the uncertainty of roles that these professionals should play in a reality where technological change is very rapid. The term "information professional" covers a wide field of activities with various This paper aims to reflect on the reality of the information professional, evoking the contradictions between the different meanings of the words that describe these professionals from the literature of Information Science from Brazil and Spain. It is based in research on the sociology of professions, following mainly Abbott (1988) and Dubar (2005). The content analysis is based on Bardin's technique, and considers three variables: the names of the professions, their definitions and their competences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The adaptation to EHEA of the Spanish University involves a wide range of changes in the existing curricula of Documentation. The launch of the new title 'Bachelor in Information and Documentation' implies the implementation of a compulsory subject -the Grade Thesis-oriented to the realization of a research project at the end of the studies, with the objective of introducing the student in basic or applied research about any of the subjects studied along the grade. The object of this paper is to analyze the main themes of the projects developed in the LIS studies of the University of Murcia; and verify their degree of consistency with the subjects of the present curriculum and with the proposed compulsory subjects for the new title; checking whether if, at the end of their studies, the students channelled their activity within the main subjects of the curriculum or whether they directed their research into elective subjects and even into collateral subjects of their curricula. This review provides very valuable information with a view to this launching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a project of bibliographical and documental research that consists in collecting, classifying, analyzing and digitally diffusing the illustrations contained in the printed matters (books, pamphlets, loose papers, etc.) from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries that are deposited in the libraries of the Region of Murcia. The general aim is the diffusion of information of difficult access, i.e. the engravings, taking advantage of the information technologies. We have established as partial objectives those of locating, identifying, digitizing, describing and disseminating the engravings. In order to achieve these objectives, a specific methodology has been devised, and accomplished in three successive phases: digitization, description and database management,. The result is a digital book engravings repository that allows for their retrieval by author, title, keywords, source, publisher, dates and other elements. This repository will improve the access to the information and it marks a new experience in metadata application for the description of images, whose effectiveness we will evaluate in a future phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to propose an evaluation method for measuring the quality of World Wide web reference resources (dictionaries and encyclopaedias) that Library of University of León make available through its Digital Library under the heading of "Resources on the internet". The project, undertaken by the Library Working Group on Electronic Resources, consists on evaluating all web resources included in each of the mentioned categories in order to determine their suitability. The results obtained after the quality assessment, will help us to select, among the list of proposals submitted at the beginning, those electronic reference resources that are more useful for the university community members, discarding those which fail to achieve the scoring proposed and recommending other that fulfill the parameters outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a bibliometric study which tries to find out the output and impact of the research activities in the field of Chemistry at the University of Castilla- La Mancha during the period 2000-2005. The data used in this study were obtained from the Science Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports databases, specially adapted to be used in bibliométric studies, by indexing the most important international journals. Results report data on productivity output of the departments, and show the scientific collaboration patterns, between authors, via the coauthorship index and the degree of domestic and international collaboration. The research visibility will be known measuring the impact factor and quartiles as a tool for ranking and categorizing journals in which it was published. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, information and communication technologies (ICT), in special the Internet, have become the main channel of communication in the world, allowing the access to information and knowledge from every point and at every moment. This popularity has been feasible, in part, because in the last few years the administrative and informative services based on the web have proliferated, and also, because of the improvement of exponential number of users with access to the Internet. However, the growth of the society of information and ICT means an opportunity to improve the social and labour integration for disabled people, but it doesn't eliminate risks for them and maybe it will become a new barrier, an other impossibility for handicapped people. This paper examines how this fate can be avoided. It introduces the main aspects of disabled persons protection (legislation, guidelines, the disabled types, the main integration problems…), and, from them, the main problems of their access to the Internet are faced. The level of compliance of the accessibility guidelines is examined, and the available and possible tools to reduce access barriers are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the situation of women in the resarch activity within the aerospace sector. In particular, it takes into account their role in the main Spanish establishment for aeronautics and space research, The National Institute of Aeroespace Technique (INTA). From data obtained from a previous bibliometric study done at INTA for the period 1990-2005, a genre perspective analysis has been conducted. These data were collected from their publications in the Web Of Knowledge. Their scientific activity is evaluated through two indicators, productivity and authorship, temathic areas of specific interest for women, etc. With the data obtained, the increasing presence of women is shown, not only in engineering or other disciplines related with it, but also in research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal of this study is get to know the scientific research done at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in pure, experimental, and technological sciences, during 2000 and 2004. The main sources of information have been the ISI data bases; the article is the type of document analyzed; and the SI subject classification has been used. The results report data on productivity output, quality, reliability, language and main topics, and the international visibility and impact of its papers depending on the journals in which they have been published, measuring the impact factor and quartiles as a tool for ranking and categorizing journals, and the citations received by other authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]