searching chemical information 0. summary and ideas

Searching for Quality Scientific Information

Alexandre López-BorrullEstudis Informació i Comunicació

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya19 Octubre 2015

Summary

1- Information Science: Some Ideas

2-Journals, Patents and Social Networks. Specialized Information Sources. Impact Factor and Open Access.

3‐ SciFinder and Web of Science. Google Scholar and Academic Social Networks (Research Gate, Academia.edu).

Information Science: some ideas

The problem in searching information

is the ratio quality versus quantity


The Important thing is finding THE information

(to look for a needle in a haystack)


Information and Files follow the laws regarding Entropy


A library is more than a store


Big Data seems something new, but Scientists cope always with it


Google is not your best friend

Scientific Information: some ideas

Highly Competitive


Information is not free, somebody have to pay for them


Mission of Information Science: “Give the right information at the

very instant it is needed”


Is this need of information new?

1665!!!


If information is not available, there is no information


Not all the Knowledge is in the Internet. And what there is in the Internet is not always Knowledge


Collaborative Science


The Price of Good Information


Scientific Information as an ecosystem

Journals

Journals

Why do we publish?

Journals

“Publish or Perish” (Dr. Kimball Atwood ca 1950)

JournalsArticle Types

- Full Paper- Communication- Review- Position Paper- Data Paper

JournalsPublishers Types

- Commercial- Scientific Society- University

- Predatory Publishers!!!

Journals

Five Big Publishers: Reed Elsevier, Springer and Wiley–Blackwell, ACS and Taylor & Francis

Journals

Journals change their name

Journals

Journals merge

Journals

Journals are taken over

Journals

Journals split into two


Where did we publish and where do we publish?

Journals

Publishing a paper

Journals

Peer Review

Journals

Open Access

Journals

Open Notebook

Open Source Software

Open Peer Review

Open Acces

Open Data

Structure of an articleTitle+Authors

Abstract+KeywordsIntroductionMethodology

ResultsDiscussion

ConclusionsReferences

Journals

Additional/Complementary Material?

Patents

Patents

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention. An invention

is a solution to a specific technological problem and is a product or a process

Patents

Patent must meet some requirements

Patents

Patents are different from know how and Industrial Secret

Patents

Academic Social Networks


http://www.nature.com/news/online-collaboration-scientists-and-the-social-network-1.15711

http://www.nature.com/news/online-collaboration-scientists-and-the-social-network-1.15711

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