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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1
st
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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4
th
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