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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