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Se dan a conocer algunos de los agentes implicados en contexto de protección (monopolio‐mercantilización) / liberalización (acceso abierto‐información como bien público) de la información y sus posicionamientos, poniendo como ejemplo de estos…
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Nowadays, new technologies and the fast growth of the Internet have made access to information easier for all kind of people, raising new challenges to education when using Internet as a medium. One of the best examples is how to guide students in…
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No one can read everything. We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. However, the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new filters; these alt-metrics…
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This paper investigates whether CiteULike and Mendeley are useful for measuring scholarly influence, using a sample of 1,613 papers published in Nature and Science in 2007. Traditional citation counts from the Web of Science (WoS) were used as…
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En Marzo de 2012 una de las obra más emblemáticas de todos los tiempos, la Encyclopaedia Britannica anunció el paso definitivo de lo analógico a lo digital. Después de 244 años de existencia física, nacida en plena Ilustración, asociada a los…
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The work of research undertaken by scientists culminates in the communication of results. This act of dissemination- the researchers’ gift to his peers (Hagstrom 1965), occurs through the publications of research through peer-reviewed journals,…
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The increasing quantity and velocity of scientific output is presenting scholars with a deluge of data. There is growing concern that scholarly output may be swamping traditional mechanisms for both pre-publication filtering (e.g peer review) and…
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Though the true meaning of citations remains tendentious, scientometricians continue to use them because they at least partly trace the use of scholarly products. Unfortunately, however, citations reflect only limited spectrum of uses, leaving…
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In recent decades the focus of public impact of science research has shifted from scientific literacy to public engagement [1]. Social media present an opportunity for analyzing public attitudes towards scientific issues. Recent research has…
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The possibility of an Open Access Citation Advantage (OACA) continues to inspire researchers and advocates. The question of a citation advantage has important implications not only for Open Access as an alternative scholarly publishing model, but…
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Research funding bodies are under pressure to maximise the wider impact of their investment in research and to demonstrate this impact to the wider community and to their ultimate funders in government. Measuring and comparing impact, whether in the…
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Scientific discourse occurs both in the academic literature and, increasingly, on the Web. What is discussed in the literature influences what is discussed on the web, and the reverse. However, the study of this discourse has largely been isolated…
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Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we investigated whether and how scholars cite on Twitter. We conducted interviews and…
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Researchblogging.org (2008) is an aggregator of science blogs. Bloggers discussing peer-reviewed research can register with the aggregator, and when they mark relevant posts in their blog, these posts appear on the aggregator’s site, allowing…
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The growing flood of scholarly literature is exposing the weaknesses of current, citation-based methods of evaluating and filtering articles. A novel and promising approach is to examine the use and citation of articles in a new forum: Web 2.0…
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Citation-based methods have been widely studied and employed for clustering academic resources and mapping science. Although effective, these methods suffer from citation delay. In this study, we extend reference and citation analysis to a broader…
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Peer Evaluation is an independent Open Access and Open Scholarship online initiative. It lets peers share their primary data, articles and scholarly projects under any shape and form. These works are then openly reviewed, disseminated and discussed…