Contents of the Seminar "Searching for Quality Scientific Information" in the Chemistry Department of the UAB in 19th of October 2015

1. Searching for Quality
Scientific Information
Alexandre López-Borrull
Estudis Informació i Comunicació
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
19 Octubre 2015

2. 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).

3. Information Science: some ideas
The problem in
searching information
is the ratio quality
versus quantity

4. Information Science: some ideas
The Important thing is
finding THE
information
(to look for a needle
in a haystack)

5. Information Science: some ideas
Information and Files follow the
laws regarding Entropy

6. Information Science: some ideas
Information and Files follow the
laws regarding Entropy

7. Information Science: some ideas
A library is more than a store

8. Information Science: some ideas
Big Data seems something new, but
Scientists cope always with it

9. Information Science: some ideas
Big Data seems something new, but
Scientists cope always with it

10. Information Science: some ideas
Google is not your best friend

11. Scientific Information: some ideas
Highly Competitive

12. Scientific Information: some ideas
Information is not free,
somebody have to pay for them

13. Scientific Information: some ideas
Mission of Information Science:
“Give the right information at the
very instant it is needed”

14. Scientific Information: some ideas
Is this need of information new?
1665!!!

15. Scientific Information: some ideas
If information is not available, there
is no information

16. Scientific Information: some ideas
Not all the Knowledge is in the
Internet. And what there is in the
Internet is not always Knowledge

17. Scientific Information: some ideas
Collaborative Science

18. Scientific Information: some ideas
The Price of Good Information

19. Scientific Information: some ideas
Scientific Information as an
ecosystem

20. Journals

21. Journals
Why do we publish?

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

23. Journals
Article Types
- Full Paper
- Communication
- Review
- Position Paper
- Data Paper

24. Journals
Publishers Types
- Commercial
- Scientific Society
- University
- Predatory Publishers!!!

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

26. Journals
Journals change their name

27. Journals
Journals merge

28. Journals
Journals are taken over

29. Journals
Journals split into two

30. Scientific Information: some ideas
Where did we publish and where do we publish?

31. Journals
Publishing a paper

32. Journals
Peer Review

33. Journals
Open Access

34. Journals
Open Notebook
Open Source
Software
Open Peer Review
Open Acces
Open Data

35. Structure of an article
Title+Authors
Abstract+Keywords
Introduction
Methodology
Results
Discussion
Conclusions
References

36. Journals
Additional/Complementary Material?

37. Patents

38. 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

39. Patents
Patent must meet some requirements

40. Patents
Patents are different from
know how and Industrial Secret

41. Patents

43. Patents

44. Academic Social Networks

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

46. Academic Social Networks

47. Academic Social Networks

48. Academic Social Networks

49. Academic Social Networks

50. Academic Social Networks