Scientific and Technic Information

Fitting Context, Needs and Wisdom

1. Being conscious of the Context

2. Being conscious of the use / needs

3. Being conscious of the needed skills

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Information Market

• Market dimension and growth – €2.3bn $1,000,000.00

– 4,5%

• Two Digits: • Elsevier

• Informa

• Springer

• Thomson

– Operating Profit • Elsevier – 33%

• Informa - 32%

• Thomsom – 27,2%

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Political Side

• ISI

versus

• Elsevier

• USA

versus

• Europe

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Information Seeking Behavior (Pinelli)

Engineers

• Quick answers

• Oriented to a Mission

• Solve problems

• Confined information

• Gatekeepers

• Vendors

• Informal channels

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Exploring the Information resources

Scientists

• up-to-date

• Coverage

• Global

• multidisciplinary

• Invisible academia

• Formal channels

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Proficiency

Researchers should be be proficient in information skills

Researchers level of information literacy should be high:

To be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information

RIN research: matching perceptions

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1st Mistake

• Resources scope:

–Follow the leader…

http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/

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2nd Mistake

• Lack of investment in Information

Systems discovering

– What can I get from this?

– How can I get?

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Exploring the information resources

i. Search Strategies

i. Bolean operators

i. And – Or – Not

ii. Wildcard, for a single character

i. Col?or retrieves color and colour

iii. Truncation

i. sul*ate returns sulphate or sulfate

ii. words that begin with the same letters. comput* returns computer, computers, computerize, computerization

iii. Stemming active or not active

iv. Proximity

i. Solar NEAR energy

v. Controlled versus Natural Language

i. Thesaurus and classifcations usage

vi. Limit

i. By date

ii. By document type

iii. By language

iv. By treatment type: applications; Literature Review; Theoretical

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Exploring the information resources

i. Value added Services

i. Full-text access

ii. Browse indexes

iii. Search history

iv. Select records

v. My profile

vi. My Alerts

vii. Dated updates

viii. Data export

ix. Automatic Clustering

x. Citation Tracking

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3rd Mistake

• Undervalue (in practice) information

resources diversity

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Information Resources Diversity

i. By nature of content i. Databases (metadata)

i. Eivillage (specialized by subject)

ii. Dissertations & Thesis (specialized by document type)

iii. Derwent (specialized by document type: Intellectual Property)

iv. Scopus / Web of Science (general)

ii. Digital Libraries (full-text)

i. IEEE (by publisher)

ii. CRC Telecommunications (by content: ebooks)

iii. Numerical data (statistics)

i. Infoline

iv. Technical documents

i. Specs&Standards (metadata)

ii. NTRS – Nasa Technical Reports Server

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4th Mistake

• Undervalue the information need

clarification

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Searching Path

i. Search equation

i. Literature Review

i. Refine search

i. Approach

ii. Appropriated document type

i. Journals

ii. Dissertations and Theses

iii. Handbooks

iv. Monographs

ii. State of the Art

i. Patents

ii. Standards

iii. Reports

iv. Refine search

i. Approach

iii. Updating

i. Refine Search

ii. Alerts

iii. Citation tracking

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To go further… other debates..

Serendipity

Open Access

Rankings

Information manifestation

eScience