Scientific and Technic Information

Fitting Context, Needs and Wisdom

1. 2. 3. Being conscious of the Context Being conscious of the use / needs 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

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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

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Search Strategies
Bolean operators i. And Or Not Wildcard, for a single character i. Col?or retrieves color and colour 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 Proximity i. Solar NEAR energy Controlled versus Natural Language i. Thesaurus and classifcations usage 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. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. viii. ix. x. Full-text access Browse indexes Search history Select records My profile My Alerts Dated updates Data export Automatic Clustering Citation Tracking

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3rd Mistake

Undervalue (in practice) information resources diversity

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Information Resources Diversity

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By nature of content
Databases (metadata)
i. ii. iii. iv. Eivillage (specialized by subject) Dissertations & Thesis (specialized by document type) Derwent (specialized by document type: Intellectual Property) Scopus / Web of Science (general) IEEE (by publisher) CRC Telecommunications (by content: ebooks) Infoline

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Digital Libraries (full-text)

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Numerical data (statistics) Technical documents

i. ii. Specs&Standards (metadata) NTRS Nasa Technical Reports Server

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4th Mistake

Undervalue the information need clarification

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Searching Path
i. i. Search equation Literature Review i. Refine search i. Approach ii. Appropriated document type i. Journals ii. Dissertations and Theses iii. Handbooks iv. Monographs State of the Art i. Patents ii. Standards iii. Reports iv. Refine search i. Approach Updating i. Refine Search ii. Alerts iii. Citation tracking
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