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This paper tries to value the importance of science popularization through some of its forerunners, both Spanish and from other countries. There has been a Spanish scientific journalism since the first decades of the XXth century. Nowadays, the society neAbstract
In this paper the authors analyze the university formation which scientific journalists get in Communication Studies Colleges all over Spain trough the different curricula. As a new proposal, they believe how useful it would be the introduction of a scienAbstract
Traditionally, the image of science has been burdened with some negative connotations that have not favoured its popularization among the great public. Associating science to something abrupt, boring, complex and unaware to our lives has been a constant fAbstract
A very important factor in the scientific popularization that the magazines carry out is to be able to contrast the information, opinions or exposed theories. In this sense, a very used fruitful element in the field of the publications on the Anglo-SaxonAbstract
This study focuses on academic institutional repositories as tools that allow us open access to scientific and academic production. Specifically, we analyze the Top 50 European University repositories differentiating, firstly, those repositories linked to Spanish universities compared [...]Abstract
This paper analyses the evolution of Spanish communication research published as scientific articles between 1980 and 2010. It quantifies the volume of this production with two different samples: the first sample includes national journals and offers original and unprecedented data; [...]Abstract
This work has conducted an analysis of Spanish Communication journals in terms of their level of internationalization and the collaborative models used by their authors, by assessing 1,182 articles published between 2007 and 2011 in the seven toprated Communication journals according [...]Abstract
In this paper we review the socalled altmetrics or alternative metrics. This concept raises from the development of new indicators based on Web 2.0, for the evaluation of the research and academic activity. The basic assumption is that variables such as mentions in blogs, number of [...]Abstract
Digital technology led to the emergence of a new economic model for scientific journals: consortial purchasing. This has been a breakthrough, providing library users widespread access to scientific information. In addition, the transition from individual paper subscriptions to electronic [...]Abstract
Scientific communication faces a number of challenges, many of them not solved by the rise of the Internet: use and presence in social media networks, publication as a measur eof research, open access and its evolution, quality validation, academic marketing and audiovisual content. [...]