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The purpose of this article is to clarify the evolving connotations of “readers” and “books” in public libraries, centers on a thriving segment of library patrons – minor readers. Taking the services for minors in Guangdong China as an example, the study examines and discusses how public libraries can play a proactive role in forging effective connections between readers and books, hence promoting the sustainable development of library services. The author has come to the conclusion that public libraries worldwide must proactively adapt to the ever-evolving environment, cutting-edge technologies, and emerging information needs.

The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly attracting attention. The purpose of the article is to present the results of a bibliometric analysis of the document flow on this topic. For the study, various scientometric data from the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) for 2001–2023 are used. The analysis showed the following. In Russia the growth of document flow began in 2016. The most cited publications are both monographs and articles. The vast majority of names named in the ranking are young people who have published their first works in the year of getting into the rating or1-3 years before that, but the authors with the most citations are not those actively publishing. The authors, organizations and leading sources of information are named. The breadth of the topic AI indicates a transition from the general fundamentals and understanding of the topic to specific developments used in a certain field of activity, but the library aspect in AI is practically not developed. In recent years, there have been reports on AI that are reflected in collections of conference proceedings, but scientific articles can be found in the ranking for each year.

The history of studying Ivan Fyodorov heritage in Siberia is connected with the expedition finds of Novosibirsk archeographers – researchers of the SPSTL RAS and Novosibirsk State University (NSU). An important component of this work was the cameral one in the archives of Siberia and the Far East, which has led to the identification of book monuments of the XVI cent., representing copies of publications of Russian first printers, and their detailed study. The purpose of the article is to present significant discoveries of Novosibirsk archaeographers related to the initial stage of Russian book printing, to summarize the results of the conference «The Legacy of Ivan Fedorov in the Siberian land». Research results are: the significant publications of Novosibirsk archeographers are based on work with copies of Cyrillic editions of the initial period of printing stored in the SPSTL RAS. The discovery in 2023 of the fifth exemplar of the Psalter with the Book of Hours of 1570 is understood as a natural result of the archaeographic work of the researchers of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of the SPSTL RAS. The review of the reports of the conference «The Legacy of Ivan Fedorov in the Siberian Land», organized by the SPSTL RAS together with with the Novosibirsk Orthodox Theological Seminary in connection with the discovery of a n ew copy of the Russian first printer.

The development of digital technologies, which provide unprecedented growth in labor productivity, leads to the depreciation of material goods, resulting in the loss of habitual life guidelines for an ever-expanding share of the planet’s population. The purpose of the article is to determine the directions for transforming the activities of a public library, basing on the analysis of the current needs of residents of highly developed countries. Public library, in the author opinion, should become a place where each user will have the opportunity to come to a deep understanding of their own existence, discover talents and gain a stable life position through integration into intellectual and creative activity. The idea of mandatory gradualism – “step-by-step” nature of this process is drawn from the creative heritage of N. A. Rubakin and A. A. Pokrovsky, who developed and put into practice the “theory of bridges” – an approach to the work of libraries that involved the gradual development of reading taste, ultimately aimed at the development of a harmonious personality. The author comes to the conclusion that the current task of libraries is to build bridges from primitive forms of creative activity to more and more meaningful and complicated one with the ultimate goal of leading each user to independent conscious creativity that helps to demonstrate all person’s abilities. As an example, the author provides the list of library services designed to work with segments of the teenage audience identified on the basis of “lifestyle,” which will allow them to unlock the potential of young users and help them to achieve intellectual and creative self-realization.

Social networks are one of the platforms for posting official content and interacting with users, as well as providing remote access to information resources. The purpose of analyzing the content of communities in the VKontakte social network of the Oryol regional libraries (public, children’s and special) was to identify the structure and typology of communities, their characteristic features, and types of labels. The reason for choosing the accounts of regional libraries as the object of research was the social function they perform: regional libraries are the flagships of the development of the library system of a certain territory. The popularity of publications in communities was measured using the Engagement Rate coefficient. A direct correlation has been revealed between the type of publication and its popularity: the more popular the publication, the more publications of this type are posted in the community. For more effective functioning of library communities, it is necessary to develop a content plan that is based on the theory of management and marketing of social networks.

The relevance of the practical application of the theory of generations by N. Howe and W. Strauss in the context of digitalization is revealed. The purpose of the article is to analyze the capabilities of electronic library systems as didactic tools designed to promote the development of the cognitive abilities of the digital generation. The results of the study conducted at the Center for Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies of the Moscow State Institute of Culture are presented. The emergence of electronic library systems is characterized as a reaction to the redundancy and unreliability of information in the Internet environment. The phenomenon of the digital generation is analyzed, the maturation and socialization of which occur under the rapid penetration of digital technologies into all spheres of life of a modern person: leisure, everyday life, study, work. Representatives of this digital generation are integrated into digital society from their birth, so they have views, attitudes and values that differ from the worldview of older generations. The distinctive features and problems of developing the cognitive abilities of Z generation are considered. The results of the study of electronic educational systems “Urayt”, “Lan”, “Rukont”, “University Library Online”, “IPR Smart” are presented from the perspective of digital didactics. Violations of the didactic principles of systematic, scientific character, and clarity are identified. Recommendations are formulated for teachers and librarians on the specifics of working with Z generation.

Open science is becoming one of the modern trends and a permanent object of study, including awareness and attitude of scientists from different countries, involvement of subject areas and individual scientific institutions. The purpose of the study is to investigate the attitude of users engaged in research activities in institutions of higher professional education, research organizations and manufacturing enterprises, united in the world-class West Siberian Interregional Scientific and Educational Center, to open science. When composing the questionnaire consisting of 38 questions, a comprehensive approach to the study of the problem was used, The questionnaire has six sections that reflect the most important aspects necessary to study the attitude of researchers to open scientific publications and their awareness of this issue. The survey involves 563 respondents whose research interests are related to various subject areas. The survey revealed their attitudes towards open access publishing of research results, their knowledge of open access resources, open science communications and data sharing principles, as well as emerging issues and concerns about open access initiatives. The study is practically important for the development of recommendations for forming information culture of users from higher education institutions in the field of open science. It is also important for the development of new directions in the activities of university libraries, and in this regard to that of methodology for the basis of training programs for library professionals in the framework of additional and professional education.

The relevance of the study is related to the need to assess the level of development of scientific knowledge and the degree of development of individual scientific problems in the field of agricultural economics. The purpose of this work is to study the dynamics of the number of publications in the field of agricultural economics in Russia and highlight their main topics. The main research method is content analysis within the bibliometric research. The results indicate great attention of scientists to various aspects of agricultural economics. However, from 2019 to 2023, the number of publications devoted to agricultural economics decreases. During the period under review, researchers pay the greatest attention to the following topics: “Accounting and analysis of economic activities”, “Financing and lending. Investments”. As the content analysis has shown, a significant number of publications are devoted to the problems of ensuring food security and sustainable development; innovative technologies, including digital ones; development of rural areas; issues related to government support and government regulation, productivity, competitiveness, small business, organic agriculture, investment, efficiency and agricultural management. At the same time, there is a relatively small number of publications devoted to pricing and labor resources, despite the relevance of these topics. In some years, there is a sharp increase in the number of publications on some topics. Thus, in 2019, the attention of researchers was as attracted by the topic of accounts payable and receivable, in 2020–2022 – programs for the development and support of agriculture, in 2020 and in 2023 – automation, in 2022 – import substitution. In 2021, there began to appear publications on the pandemic and unmanned technologies, and in 2023 – on artificial intelligence. Based on the calculation of the TF-IDF measure, it is concluded that there is greater similarity between the topics of publications in adjacent years than in non-adjacent ones. The results obtained can be used to plan the topics of research work.

The concept of “book culture”, which entered the domestic book-study discourse in the 1980s, is currently one of the central ones for both historical-book and theoretical-book studies. However, it has not yet received a conventional definition in Russian science. The purpose of the article is to formulate a definition of book culture based on the interpretative theory of culture and theoretical and methodological achievements of medialogy dominating in modern socio-humanitarian knowledge. The authors show the general theoretical context of the formation of the concept of “book culture”. The necessity of a pragmatic turn in theoretical book studies is substantiated. The possibilities of theoretical models of the media researcher G.M. McLuhan and the historian of the printed book R. Darnton for the interpretation of the concept of “book culture” are revealed. The author offers his own definition of book culture as a space of communication between various social actors, mediated by materialized texts broadcasting socially significant information.

The purpose of the study is to theoretically and practically substantiate the need to introduce an online news information system into library practice as part of the information support of scientific activities (on the example of Open Science). The work theoretically substantiates that improving the news information system in libraries is necessary in connection with the development of technology, open science, library activities and the rapid growth of disparate sources of information. The experience analysis of 130 libraries in presenting various news information products has led to the conclusion that the implementation of news information requires appropriate technology that would allow us to model the sequence of processes and operations for generating news library and information products.As a result the model of a news information system on open science is developed, which allows searching, collecting, processing, and synthesizing news information on open science, as well as creating, posting and distributing information products, their qualitative and quantitative assessment of effectiveness to be made. It has been implemented on the web platform of the State Public Library for Science and Technology of the Siberian Branch of RAS “Library for Open Science” in January 2023 and demonstrates a gradual increase in the number of all web analytical indicators of news information products created on its basis.

The poster session has become one of the types of professional events (congresses, conferences, seminars, etc.). Despite the long-term discussions about the poster as an effective tool in the scholarly communication and its comparison with the abstract it has not studied as a product of analytical and synthetic information processing. The purpose of this article is to consider theoretical questions about the poster as an information product. The traditional structure of the poster is similar to the structure of a research article (introduction, methods, results, discussion) with the only difference – the poster presents these elements in compressed form, as well as in an abstract. The article gives a comparative analysis of the poster and abstract. It shows that such features of the abstract as information content, high semantic capacity, accurate reflection of the main actual information and conclusions, etc., are characteristic of posters as well. It concludes that summarizing the results of the analytical and synthetic processing of information in the poster allows its considering as one of the types of information products and libraries can include posters in the list of their information products/services. In order to create posters, such skills as compression of information, data visualization, communicative skills, research skills and critical thinking, as well as mastering technical tools, which are in demand in the market today and are reflected in the professional standard “Specialist in Library and Information Activities”. Their development can be made by poster technology, which is already lately implemented at the Library and Information Department of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture.

Although predatory publishers are increasingly recognized, universally accepted criteria for defining predatory journals are lacking. These journals challenge the scholarly community by blurring the line between legitimate and questionable publishing practices. Several lists and reports of predatory journals have been published, which offer valuable insights; however, they are not devoid of criticism. Beall’s list, although criticized for its inclusion criteria, is currently managed anony-mously and updated infrequently. Cabells’ list uses an extensive array of inclusion criteria, some of which are similar to those used in Beall’s list. Several of these cri-teria are redundant and fail to detect predatory practices, and using all of them in evaluating a journal is seldom practicable. Kscien’s list has emerged as a promising alternative for identifying predatory publishers or journals. However, it requires refinement, potentially through creating a distinct list supported by unequivocal evidence, such as accepting a fake manuscript (ascertained through a sting opera-tion). The present review seeks to catalyze research on identifying predatory jour-nals and publishers by comparing existing lists and suggesting new techniques for detecting predatory practices.

The open access movement has drastically reconfigured the financial burdens of scholarly publishing. Yet, the influence of a marketized scholarly publishing system on doctoral education remains unexplored. I reflect on my own PhD candidature to illustrate how article processing charges disempower doctoral candidates. I argue that the current open access publishing model unfairly advantages candidates with personal, familial and/or institutional wealth. The inequalities imposed on doctoral students by our sectors’ current publishing habits ultimately bias who will be paid to produce and safeguard knowledge in the future. Doctoral students can no longer be ignored in debates over open access publishing.

During the Middle Ages, confraternities of blind people began to emerge in many Italian cities. Later recognised by local authorities and the Roman Church, they ensured that blind people were aided in case of poverty, sickness or death, also providing formal permission to beg on the street and other designated places. These special privileges existed alongside indulgences granted to those (whether visually impaired or sighted) who attended religious functions celebrated by the blind on particular days. This article analyses how these blind individuals used a variety of printed material to promote such indulgences, as well as other activities of their confraternities within and outside their cities.

In 1792, in Rome, the Dutch collector Thomas Hope commissioned the first exclusively illustrated edition of the Divine Comedy to the English artist John Flaxman. The first publication, limited and for private circulation, was distributed by the engraver Tommaso Piroli’s workshop in July 1793, and Hope, holder of the rights, forbade the printing of further copies. However, in 1802, Piroli repurposed the engravings from Flaxman’s illustrations for a new edition which was distributed throughout Europe, immensly successful as evidenced by the editions of the Comedy in the first 19th century in which they were included. The collaboration between Flaxman and Piroli, their relationship with Hope and the history of this illustrated Comedia, born from a rigorous neoclassical theory on the relationship between poetry and art, establish themselves as a living testimony of Dante’s reception between the 18th and 19th centuries through a study of the dynamics in book market.

The article presents an unpublished cycle of choir books written and illuminated at the end of XVI Century for the Benedictine Abbey of Santa Maria del Monte, believed to be lost. The volumes were taken from the Abbey during the suppressions of religious orders, eventually being forgotten in the storage of the Biblioteca Malatestiana. The production of liturgic books in the late Renaissance is studied on the basis of the documents in the State Archive and the signatures of scribes and artists hidden in the pen flourished initials. A new artist is discovered, Ignazio da Otranto, co-authoring these books with his confrere Serafino. The relationships between this cycle and others in the Benedictine Roman Province during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries are investigated, throwing light on the exchanges among the Cesena Abbey and the Abbeys in Ravenna, Subiaco and Farfa.

Leopardi's didn’t neglect properly editorial and book aspects of his literary work. In this context, it becomes significant to conduct in-depth research aimed at reconstructing the author's publishing habits. In his Epistolario, Leopardi talks to printers, publishers and cultural organizers, but also with friends and relatives, recipients of recounts and comments on some episodes of his experience in the world of printing. Through letters it is possible to identify the peculiar position of Leopardi as a writer within the Italian publishing and tipographical scene.

Antonino Mongitore (1633-1743) was a scholar and bibliographer, who trained at the Jesuit College of Palermo then he was ordained a priest in 1687. Fellow and founder of numerous academies, he was involved, mainly, in city history and hagiography. His Bibliotheca Sicula is a well-known bio-bibliographical repertory published in two volumes, the former in 1707, the latter in 1714. This paper originated from the finding in the State Archives of Palermo of the inventory of its library, full of 2775 editions, examined according to the quantitative method. An initial analysis of this document and the study of further sources allow us to broaden this Sicilian priest's cultural profile and interests.

The paper provides copies descriptions of two incunabula printed in Venice and preserved at Municipal Library «Fratelli Pellegrini» in Borgo a Mozzano (Lucca, Tuscany): a Divine Comedy of 1493 (ISTC ic00614000; GW online 6972) and a collection of Cicero’s works printed in the year 1500 (ISTC ic00614000; GW online 6972). Both come from the ancient library belonging to the Pellegrini, one of the most powerful families since the XVIIth century, which accumulated an extensive library and archive. The paper also focuses the attention on Prof. Francesco Maria Pellegrini (1855-1927), who engaged in a careful reordering of his family library.

This essay reconstructs the history of Giulia Napoleone's art books, small volumes in single copies with poems transcribed by hand and illustrated with various techniques: a exercise which began in 1963 and which the public was able to get to know for the first time during the 2017 exhibition at the Central Institute of Graphics (Istituto Centrale per la Grafica), following a major donation from the Artist. These books testify to the special relationship that Giulia Napoleone has always had with poetry, a source of inspiration and reciprocity even for larger works, such as pictorial cycles or monographic exhibitions, which go beyond the book form. At the same time, these small private books are also seen as germinal cells of the larger books, printed in a limited number of copies by reputable international art publishers, and distinguished by an iconographic apparatus including unique engravings which vary from copy to copy.

En este artículo se presenta el proceso de gestación, consolidación y transformación de la valoración documental en Colombia, con base en la revisión de normatividad archivística. Está organizado en cuatro etapas; la primera plantea los antecedentes del proceso relacionados con el interés del Gobierno en el patrimonio documental como fuente de identidad nacional; la segunda se ocupa de la gestación del proceso y la creación de sus instrumentos archivísticos; la tercera responde a la consolidación como producto de la modificación de los procedimientos e instrumentos con la Ley General de Archivos como marco; y la cuarta se centra en la transformación del proceso producto del impacto de las TIC en la producción de documentos de archivo. Este recorrido permite identificar la relación entre el proceso de valoración y los intereses de la sociedad, evidenciar problemáticas procedimentales en su aplicación, reconocer el crecimiento disciplinar a lo largo del tiempo y resaltar la importancia de estudiar el proceso de forma continua.

Este estudio examina la endogamia editorial de las revistas de bibliotecología y ciencias de la información. La endogamia se determinó mediante el análisis de 1) artículos publicados por los editores de la revista, 2) artículos publicados por el país de origen de la revista y 3) autocitas de la revista. El estudio utilizó una cobertura de cinco años basada en revistas indizadas en Web of Science. En relación con la endogamia editorial, el corte del 50 % de las publicaciones quedó en 4,51 %. Sin embargo, algunas revistas han concentrado esta endogamia del 20 al 45 %. El modelo endogámico desarrollado con los tres análisis generó un sistema de eficiencia de revistas que mostró un índice moderado por cuartil de las revistas, con un promedio de cuatro artículos endogénicos por revista. El 50 % de las publicaciones obtuvieron una media de 10,70 % de autocitas, aunque parte del 50 % de las revistas más endógenas obtuvo índices que oscilan entre el 11 y el 75,99 %, con diez revistas por encima del 30 %. El 50 % de los artículos son del país de origen de la revista. Se concluye que los niveles de endogamia estaban equilibrados en promedio, pero algunas revistas abusaron de él para mejorar su clasificación e impacto.

Los estudios métricos proveen información sobre los resultados de la actividad científica y ofrecen una visión del quehacer científico en una institución. Se realizó un estudio cienciométrico de corte transversal para conocer las trayectorias de la investigación en la Facultad de Odontología en el periodo 2011-2020, generar reflexiones y definir retos que orienten la actividad investigativa. A partir de una revisión de literatura, se definieron indicadores de productividad, visibilidad e impacto. Se identificaron fuentes de información de acuerdo con los indicadores establecidos y se sistematizaron los datos en matrices de Excel para su posterior análisis descriptivo. Se identificaron 326 artículos de revista, 83 % originales de investigación, 8 libros derivados de investigación y 57 capítulos de revisión de tema. 156 artículos fueron publicados en revistas Scopus; el 75 % de los artículos fue publicado en revistas de acceso abierto; 33 %, en revistas A1; 16 %, en A2; 13 %, en B; 13 %, en C y 14 %, en no clasificadas en Publindex. La mayoría de los artículos publicados recibieron hasta 20 citas, independiente de la indexación de la revista. Este estudio permitió identificar la productividad, visibilidad e impacto de la actividad investigativa en la Facultad de Odontología y al mismo tiempo definir los retos que enfrenta dicha actividad.

En este artículo se determinan las percepciones que tienen los stakeholders de una biblioteca universitaria, con base en la identidad y la imagen como intangibles, a través de una propuesta metodológica para la evaluación diagnóstica y el monitoreo periódico de la imagen corporativa. Para lograrlo, se utilizaron tres instrumentos de recolección de información: el instrumento OCAI (Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument) aplicado a la directiva y empleados de la biblioteca, un cuestionario de 22 preguntas y grupos focales con estudiantes de diferentes programas académicos. Se evidencia que los estudiantes ubican a la biblioteca en el nivel de reconocimiento o notoriedad y que la imagen ideal de la dirección de la biblioteca se enfoca en una cultura de clan. Sin embargo, se requiere desarrollar estrategias como la implementación de redes sociales, la construcción de espacios para el trabajo individual y colectivo y la apertura de espacios para los encuentros culturales que contribuyan a su gestión reputacional.

Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo identificar las relaciones que la Biblioteca Pública Benedito Leite mantiene con la memoria, el patrimonio cultural y la sociabilidad en São Luís, a partir de lo que argumentan los usuarios que participan en los servicios educativos de la institución. Se trata de una investigación exploratoria y descriptiva, con abordaje cuantitativo y cualitativo, en la que se usó la observación sistemática con cuaderno de bitácora y cuestionarios mixtos de 10 preguntas, cuya recolección de datos contó con un universo muestral de 62 usuarios que participaron de los servicios educativos. Se señala que, por muy diferentes que sean los perfiles de los usuarios de la Biblioteca Pública Benedito Leite, sus testimonios convergen en la importancia de la institución para la preservación de la historia, la memoria y el patrimonio. La Biblioteca, al mediar y difundir el patrimonio cultural a través de sus servicios educativos, permite la reconstrucción de la memoria de los ciudadanos de São Luís y la creación de vínculos, hechos explícitos por los contornos simbólicos y afectivos entre sus visitantes, usuarios y profesionales.

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.

Background: Improving inclusiveness in mental health research merits attention as we seek to reduce inequalities in mental health. Academic journals can promote inclusiveness through editorial practices related to the selection of content and the composition of journal editorial boards. Objectives: To investigate the attitudes, awareness, and actions of journal editors concerning inclusiveness in mental health research and editorial practices. Methods: We surveyed 74 chief and senior editors, representing 55 prominent journals in neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology (2021 impact factor M = 8.04, SD = 10.76). Results: Most respondents (74–99%) acknowledged the importance of inclusiveness in mental health research, and a majority (62–78%) were familiar with existing guidelines. Half or fewer of the journals (49–50%) had policies for selecting content that is diverse, and 20% had policies regarding inclusion of individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges. Well over half the journals (57–72%) had policies to widen diversity among their editorial boards and roughly half (43–53%) among peer reviewers, although only a few (18–23%) included among their editors or peer reviewers individuals with lived experience of dealing with mental health challenges. Conclusions: This study highlighted an intention-action gap, with positive attitudes and awareness but limited editorial practices promoting inclusiveness in mental health research. Inclusion of individuals with lived experience emerged as an area in particular need of improvement. We discuss potential strategies that journals might consider to foster inclusiveness, such as diversity training, publication checklists, and infrastructure that supports participatory approaches.

El incremento acelerado de la producción científica sobre Inteligencia Artificial requiere indagar en las tendencias y orientar a los investigadores hacia nuevos espacios de investigación. El objetivo del estudio fue analizar la producción científica sobre IA en el ámbito de las comunicaciones. Se realizó una revisión bibliométrica en la base de datos Web of Science con una metodología de cinco fases y técnicas bibliométricas diversas. Analizamos 994 documentos publicados entre 2013 y 2023. Para el análisis y visualización usamos RStudio, Bibliometrix, Microsoft Excel e IBM SPSS. Estados Unidos destaca como el país con más publicaciones y cabe mencionar que no hay representación latinoamericana entre los primeros diez países con mayor producción. El análisis temático mostró brechas y temas emergentes que pueden contribuir a la construcción de evidencia científica sobre IA en comunicaciones. Concluimos que existe una tendencia al crecimiento en la producción sobre esta temática y que la IA desde lo humano parece ser el enfoque predominante del estudio en comunicaciones. Se precisan nuevos estudios que llenen las brechas observadas y que fortalezcan tanto los temas motores, como los básicos.

Background: Institutional transformation – integrating many disparate research insti-tutes into the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN, for Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional) – was the most significant reform in the history of institutional gov-ernance in Indonesia. This integration policy aims to enable the state to strengthen the national research and innovation ecosystem and improve the performance of research institutions, one indicator of which is their output of publications reporting the results of research. Objectives: To compare the published output of research institutes before and after the integration of research institutions into BRIN. Methods: Relevant data retrieved through Scopus on 24 December 2023 and span-ning the period between 2015 and 2023 were analysed using Microsoft Excel, and col-laboration networks of authors and of countries were constructed using VOSviewer and examined for co-authors in different countries collaborating with first authors in Indonesia. Results: The number of publications increased annually over the period 2015–2023. However, the annual rate of growth after (2021–2023) the integration of research institutions was higher (36%) than that before (2015–2021) the integration (30%). Conference papers (51%) dominated the pre-integration era, whereas articles (57%) dominated the post-integration era, and the number of reputable journals in which the research was published was greater after the integration. Conclusions: The period after the integration of research institutions saw enhanced research output in terms of the number of research publications, annual rate of growth in that number, and the number of reputable journals in which the publica-tions appeared.

A la luz del proyecto de investigación “Banco de Datos Terminológicos de las Ciencias de la Información (BDTCI). Segunda etapa: Base de Datos Terminológicos de la Bibliotecología (BDT-B)”, se hace un acercamiento a la terminología de las Unidades de Información Universitarias (UIU). Presentamos la metodología clásica de trabajo terminológico llevada a cabo en investigaciones de este tipo, con énfasis en la realización de grupos focales de profesionales que se desempeñan en bibliotecas académicas. Describimos el uso de los términos “biblioteca universitaria” / “biblioteca académica” y “ciencia de la información” / “ciencias de la información” hallados en el corpus textual conformado principalmente por artículos publicados en revistas reconocidas en el ámbito bibliotecológico y de las ciencias de la información en Iberoamérica. Por último, exponemos algunas consideraciones finales.

El objetivo de la investigación consiste en identificar requerimientos de formación informacional para el uso adecuado de recursos y servicios de bibliotecas digitales universitarias. Se aporta una visión sobre las prácticas y el nivel de competencia informacional de los estudiantes según el área de conocimiento. Para el estudio exploratorio utilizamos un análisis estadístico descriptivo e inferencial de los datos extraídos con un instrumento ad hoc aplicado a una muestra de 746 estudiantes universitarios de seis países hispanos. Los resultados indican un uso limitado de las bibliotecas digitales universitarias por parte de los jóvenes en general. Además, se observa insatisfacción con algunos de los servicios que ofrecen y un bajo nivel de competencia informacional para realizar búsquedas, evaluación y gestión adecuada de la información digital. Se concluye que, aun cuando los jóvenes expresan poseer habilidades para adquirir recursos digitales, el estudio evidencia la necesidad de que profesores y bibliotecarios diseñen estrategias que refuercen la alfabetización informacional de los estudiantes en sus cuatro dimensiones: recursos bibliotecarios, plagio/citación de fuentes, recuperación de información y evaluación de la información.

El artículo presenta una revisión sistemática sobre contenidos digitales para bibliotecas, realidad extendida, discapacidades físicas de interacción, diseño universal para el aprendizaje y diseño centrado en el usuario para encontrar las bases de una metodología de desarrollo de software que cubra estas características. Utilizamos un protocolo orientado a estudios en ingeniería de software, el cual consta de las siguientes etapas: 1. Definición de las preguntas de investigación, 2. Realización de la búsqueda de artículos, 3. Selección de criterios de inclusión y exclusión, 4. Palabras clave de los resúmenes y 5. Proceso de extracción y mapeo de datos. Esta revisión se llevó a cabo a través de motores de búsqueda como Google Scholar, Science Direct, IEEE Xplore y ACE Library y se delimitó a publicaciones entre 2016 y 2021. Los resultados muestran una tendencia incremental en la generación de artículos de realidad extendida, pero una baja productividad científica en contenidos digitales para bibliotecas demostrando la disponibilidad de servicios que consideran los temas antes expuestos. Finalmente, definimos elementos para la elaboración de una futura propuesta metodológica para la construcción de contenidos digitales para bibliotecas y realidad extendida.

Los indicadores de citación pueden medir el impacto o la utilidad de resultados de investigación de un artículo científico, sin embargo, este uso puede ser controversial. Factores intrínsecos y extrínsecos influencian la citación de un artículo, sin mencionar que el comportamiento en las citaciones puede variar entre áreas temáticas, lo cual dificulta las comparaciones entre artículos y disciplinas. Entender que el contexto puede afectar un análisis de citas es esencial para interpretar adecuadamente los indicadores. Por esta razón, buscan reconocerse los factores que inciden en la citación de los artículos de las revistas biomédicas colombianas indexadas en Scopus a través del uso de algoritmos de Machine Learning. Con los algoritmos ‘Gradient Boosting Classifier’ y ‘Light Gradient Boosting Machine’ identificamos características de importancia como el índice h del primer y el último autor, acceso abierto, número de autores, palabras clave del artículo, además del número de páginas. Estas características fueron relevantes para el área de interés y pueden brindar un contexto para futuros análisis, considerando que lo relevante de un artículo no debería ser cuántas citaciones atrae, sino si este ayuda a llenar vacíos en el conocimiento.

En un esquema de gobierno democrático la participación de los diversos actores es un pilar importante para la toma de decisiones públicas. En este contexto, para que la participación sea adecuada y bien fundamentada se necesita información útil y relevante que proporcione elementos para la correcta deliberación. El presente trabajo analiza, a la par de las nuevas características en torno a la obtención de información y participación en los canales digitales, los riesgos ocasionados por la calidad de la información consultable y el surgimiento y consolidación de una nueva arquitectura en la sociedad moderna. Esta arquitectura se basa en la vigilancia del pensar y actuar ciudadano que ocurre debido al cúmulo de datos originados por la constante interacción de los individuos con las tecnologías en diferentes aspectos de la vida personal y colectiva. El artículo concluye alertando sobre la posibilidad de que la calidad democrática de las naciones se vea mermada por el fenómeno de reafirmación de ideas y posturas suscitado durante la obtención, consulta e intercambio de información a través de los canales digitales, específicamente en las redes sociales digitales.

La Alfabetización Mediática, Informacional y Digital (AMID) conjunta conocimientos, habilidades y actitudes que capacitan a los ciudadanos para interactuar crítica y reflexivamente con los medios de comunicación e información en la era digital. Este artículo presenta una revisión sistemática exploratoria que analiza 34 estudios (publicados entre 2019 y 2023) que usan herramientas cuantitativas para evaluar la AMID en estudiantes y docentes en el ámbito de la educación formal. Los resultados revelan que la población más estudiada es la universitaria, con predominancia de estudiantes de nacionalidad española y mexicana. Los principales constructos derivados de esta investigación se ajustaron a tres referentes: el Marco Común de Competencia Digital Docente, el cuestionario ALFAMED y el cuestionario ALFIN-HUMASS. Los instrumentos demostraron sólidas propiedades psicométricas, tanto en términos de confiabilidad como de validez. Las escalas de actitud con formato Likert fueron las más utilizadas en los estudios descriptivos; estas son valiosas para identificar fortalezas y debilidades, pero no siempre son suficientes para brindar un diagnóstico completo. Para ello, es necesario recurrir a otras herramientas que permitan evaluar el desempeño real y vincular los resultados con implicaciones pedagógicas concretas. Finalmente, el artículo recomienda diagnosticar estas competencias en los docentes de educación primaria, secundaria y bachillerato, ya que son fundamentales para el crecimiento académico y personal de los estudiantes.

El acceso a la información a través de la lectura tradicionalmente alude al proceso de percibir y comprender la escritura mediante la vista o el tacto; no obstante, la lectura a través de la escucha se establece como una forma de oralidad terciaria que permite la combinación de la escritura, la imagen y la voz. Tales características la han convertido en una poderosa alternativa para la adquisición de conocimientos para las nuevas generaciones, las cuales, en algunos casos, prefieren escuchar en lugar de leer. Por este motivo, se realizó una investigación de tipo documental de la literatura científica sobre el tema, mediante un estudio descriptivo, con el objetivo de profundizar en el uso de los audiotextos como forma alternativa para la adquisición de conocimientos. Para ello, fueron analizados los conceptos de audiotexto, audiolibro, oralidad terciaria, conversión de texto a voz, voces sintéticas y deepfake de voz. Se encontró que el impacto de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación han hecho posible que los audiotextos se conviertan en una poderosa herramienta para la reivindicación de la palabra hablada y una herramienta complementaria para el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje.

El objetivo de investigación se fundamenta en describir los sistemas de información pervasivos contemporáneos con base en los presupuestos teóricos seleccionados. A partir de un método inductivo guiado por diferentes posturas hacia las características de los sistemas de información pervasivos, se sintetizan ciertos elementos a manera de armonización conceptual basados en la computación pervasiva. Los resultados obtenidos a nivel conceptual denotan que un sistema de información pervasivo contemporáneo tiende a expandirse en el tiempo y espacio del área de trabajo, puesto que las actividades laborales y los servicios de información han transgredido los momentos y sitios personales ajenos a las tareas específicas del lugar de trabajo.

En este artículo, se analiza la relación entre la autopercepción de la alfabetización mediática, informacional y digital de los futuros docentes de telesecundaria y sus características sociodemográficas, como el sexo, la edad y el año académico. Se realizó un estudio cuantitativo, descriptivo y correlacional en una muestra de 148 estudiantes de la Licenciatura en Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Telesecundaria de una escuela normal en Veracruz, México. Los datos se recolectaron mediante un cuestionario ad hoc,y su evaluación se llevó a cabo a través de métodos estadísticos como la prueba t, la correlación de Spearman y análisis de varianza. Los resultados revelaron que no existen diferencias significativas en este tipo de alfabetización en función del sexo, la edad o el año académico. Además, la mayoría de los estudiantes se autoperciben con un nivel intermedio de esta competencia. Este hallazgo subraya la importancia de investigaciones futuras para una evaluación objetiva y el fortalecimiento de programas formativos en alfabetización mediática, informacional y digital para futuros docentes.

El uso de la inteligencia artificial en la educación superior tiene un gran potencial para el fortalecimiento y mejora de procesos institucionales y académicos, como la toma de decisiones informadas, la investigación y la experiencia de formación de la comunidad académica, compuesta, entre otros, por estudiantes, docentes y personal administrativo. La inteligencia artificial puede ayudar a las universidades a identificar potenciales estrategias que se basen en información y tendencias, aporta en los procesos de inscripción y contribuye en reducir la deserción estudiantil; además, ayuda a identificar factores de riesgo que inciden en los estudiantes para así brindarles las medidas de apoyo especializado. También contribuye a la formulación de planes académicos personalizados y diferenciados, ayuda a mejorar la gestión del aprendizaje y la enseñanza; sin embargo, es importante tener en cuenta que un alto porcentaje de estudiantes en América Latina pertenecen a hogares de bajos ingresos y tienen acceso limitado a tecnología, lo que puede afectar su capacidad para aprovechar estas ventajas de la inteligencia artificial. Por lo tanto, es necesario conocer su estructura, factores y sus efectos dada su incidencia y las tendencias frente a su uso aplicado. Se necesita una implementación integral de la automatización inteligente en la educación que tenga en cuenta estas desigualdades y desafíos, y se deben abordar temas como el costo y la escalabilidad, la ética, la privacidad y la falta de experiencia en inteligencia artificial en los entornos académicos colombianos.

The article examines the monopoly of the CPC on power as a system-forming political institution of the PRC, which showed its ineffectiveness in the active phase of the C ultural Revolution, was then restored in the fight against its proponents, and met competition from supporters of the democratization of the system of government in the late 1970s. Part of the political leadership of the PRC, represented mainly by relatively young party and state officials, considered the democratization of the system of government as a condition for transforming the system of domination into a system of democratic politics that would ensure the country's comprehensive development. This position was welcomed and support ed by the intelligentsia, urban educated youth and some of the cadres of the party and state apparatus, but met powerful res istance from the “veterans” of the Communist Party, concerned about the threat of losing control over the political activity of the masses. On March 30, 1979, Deng Xiaoping proclaimed the “four basic principles,” which became a factor in the consolidation of the CPC leadership on a “protective” position and defined a “corridor of opportunity” for pursuing a course of “reform and opening-up” for decades to come. At the same time, one of the four principles – “upholding the leadership of the Communist Party” – turned into the ideological basis of the institution of the CPC monopoly on power, which to this day plays a key role in the institutional political design of the PRC.

Yokai demons occupy a very important place in the culture and history of Japan. Yokai are the treasured key to the cultural code of Japanese nation , without which it is impossible to comprehend Kokoro – the Soul of Japan. The rapid fascination with Japanese demonology in the West and in Russia is by no means accidental, and the history of the Western world’s acquaintance with Japanese yokai is full of breathtaking stories. The article tells about the history of the study of Japanese demonology in the West and in Russia, and analyzes the reasons and features of the mass fascination with yokai in the world. A detailed overview of sources includes translations of works of fiction and studies devoted to yokai. The article pays special attention to the differences in the perception of Japanese demons in Western countries and among the Russian audience. The author sees the reason for this in the difference in mentalities – the Ango-Saxon ratio versus the Russian mythological consciousness.

The relevance of this article is due to the changes in Russian-Chinese relations that are taking place under the influence of the military crisis in Ukraine and Western sanctions applied against Russia and China. The purpose of this study is to analyze the problems and prospects of cooperation between Moscow and Beijing in the political, trade, economic and humanitarian spheres. The author used the following research methods: generalization, structural synthesis, deductive and comparative analyses. Their application allowed us to come to the following conclusions. In the context of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, Russian-Chinese r elations are being tested for strength, as they are subject to comprehensive sanctions pressure from the “collective West”. Despite this pressure, relations between Russia and China demonstrate the growth of political interaction in the international arena. In the field of trade and economic relations, Moscow is trying to compensate for its economic and financial weakness by actively attracting Chinese investments and products. However, Russia is a less significant partner for Beijing compared to the European Union and the United States. To eliminate these problems, governments, economists and scientists from Russia and China are working together to activate the development of economic cooperation between the countries. Along with political and economic cooperation, humanitarian interaction between Moscow and Beijing is extremely important. It is aimed at confronting Western ideology and strengthening mutual understanding between the peoples of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China, as well as strengthening cooperation within the framework of the EAEU, SCO and BRICS.

The article describes the state of the modern port industry on the sea coast of the People's Republic of China, highlighting its features and characteristics. The author analyzes the form ation and development of large-scale, intensive and modern groups of seaports in China, whose economic structure, volume, cargo flows and turnover are significantly differentiated. The article discusses the strategic role of the government in developing the modern transport and logistics systems of the PRC, creating an effective institutional system and improving the regulatory framework. The author comes to the conclusion that Chinese seaports are developing in the direction of increasing scale, intensif ication and modernization, enhancing the efficiency of transportation and creating a modern logistics system that meets the requirements of sustainable and rapid development.