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The digital environment and information and communication technologies open up new ways of providing library services, including the reference service, the principal aim [...]
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Reference services in academic libraries are far from dead and technologies of the social web are facilitating and encouraging an ever increasing demand for virtual reference [...]
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Robots.txt and sitemaps files are the main methods to regulate search engine crawler access to its content. This article explain the importance of such files and analyze robots.txt [...]
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Personal information management (PIM) raises some problems because the software tools that are used don’t adequately respond to user behaviour and activities. The concept [...]
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Gil-Leiva, Isidoro (2008). Manual de indización: teoría y práctica. Gijón: Trea, 432 p. (Biblioteca y administración cultural; 193). ISBN: 978 84 9704 367 0
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In this paper we show that the aggregation of bibliometric indices is an appropriate way to evaluate scientific production of researchers because it allows us to develop much [...]
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The proper functioning of the Research, Development and Innovation (R&D&I) cycle requires an efficient processing of scientific information. The Institute for Catalan Studies [...]
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The Web of Science interface counts at most 100,000 retrieved items from a single query. If the query results in a dataset containing more than 100,000 items the number of [...]
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The ISOC database is presented as an information system that is very useful for the dissemination and the study of scientific production in human and social sciences in Spain [...]
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Given the importance of innovation and technology development in a country’s economy, there has been an increasing need for selecting indicators to measure the degree of [...]
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Google Scholar is a search engine that specializes in scientific information and in the identification of the citations that academic papers receive, making it a strong competitor [...]
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The validity of Google Scholar as a service that reflects properly the scientific output of a university is analyzed, comparing its coverage of Spanish public universities [...]
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Reference managing tools are one of the most useful devices for researchers and librarians due to their ability to compile, storeand format information related to different [...]
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From the information provided for free by Thomson Reuters in ScienceWatch.com, production and citation dataof the scientific disciplines are analyzed for Spain, determining [...]
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The great interest that health generates in people has led to several Spanish institutions of the health sector to improve the communication value of newsletters, online patients [...]
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Public administration in the developed countries is designing information initiatives to manage risk information using web-based systems. These sites are intended to deliver [...]
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The objective of this study is to measure the relationship between the digital information sources (Google, Yahoo and Encyclopaedia Britannica) and the turnover of the international [...]
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The creation of autonomous public Television in the Principality of Asturias inside of digital environment, involved the use of the latest technologies in production of audiovisual [...]
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The explosion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has affected the work routines of professional journalists. Immediacy, one of the essential characteristics [...]
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A study of the impact and influence of Digital Photography on the Press Documentation Departments. The photographic archives of the Documentation Departments of the Spanish [...]
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The Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library (BRGF) at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) has recently launched an electronic books lending service. This paper describes the [...]
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Spanish telecentres are a catalyst and inclusion instrument in the information society. Nevertheless, there is a lack of studies describing the activities performed by these [...]
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In the last years we have seen many attempts to transfer the desktop browser experience to the mobile sphere, with poor results. Nonetheless, both devices’ performance improvement [...]
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Production and citation rankings of the top 25 world science countries are presented from the free data provided by Thomson Reuters in ScienceWatch.com. The development of [...]
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The concept of Science 2.0 is introduced and analysed based on its principal characteristics: user participation and collaboration, as well as free information exchange by [...]
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The results of a study of social networking by professors’ co-memberships in library and information science PhD juries between 1993 and 2006 are presented. Degree reduction [...]
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Overview and trends of different aspects and applications of data mining on the Internet, in relation to Web 2.0, spam, analysis of searches, social networks and privacy.