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Recensione a: Simona Turbanti. Bibliometria e scienze del libro: internazionalizzazione e vitalità degli studi italiani. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2017. XI, 166 p. ISBN 978-88-6453-467-1. EUR 17,90
No full textRecensione a: Simona Turbanti. Bibliometria e scienze del libro: internazionalizzazione e vitalità degli studi italiani. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2017. XI, 166 p. ISBN 978-88-6453-467-1. EUR 17,9
Recensione a: Open access and digital libraries: social science libraries in action = Acceso abierto y bibliotecas digitales: las bibliotecas de ciencias socials en acción, edited by Lynne M. Rudasill, Maria E. Dorta-Duque. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2013
No full textRecensione a: Data information literacy: librarians, data, and the education of a new generation of researchers, edited by Jake Carlson and Lisa R. Johnston, West Lafayette, Purdue University Press, 2015
No full textBibliometria e discipline bibliografico-biblioteconomiche in Italia: una questione di magnetismo
Get PDFNegli ultimi anni si è assistito ad un aumento dell’interesse da parte delle discipline bibliografico-biblioteconomiche nei confronti dei temi della valutazione della ricerca e della bibliometria. Quest’ultima ha cominciato a ritagliarsi uno spazio sempre maggiore all’interno della letteratura di settore, tanto da poter vantare diversi esperti e gruppi di ricerca dediti allo studio e all’approfondimento di questo tema. Il presente contributo intende fornire una panoramica della letteratura biblioteconomica italiana focalizzata sui temi della bibliometria, nel tentativo di offrire uno strumento di sintesi e aggiornamento. La trattazione tocca i principali filoni di studio che sono emersi dall’analisi della letteratura: ruolo dei bibliotecari, valutazione della ricerca nelle scienze umane, copertura dei database e qualità dei dati, metriche alternative, uso consapevole degli indicatori.Over the last few years, Italian LIS field has produced more papers about Bibliometrics than before. This increasing attention is probably due to the research assessment exercises that have influenced Italian academic debate. Role of librarians, research assessment in the Humanities and Social Sciences, databases coverage and data quality, new metrics, awareness of the use of indicators: aim of this article is to show main topics through a literature review of the Italian LIS studies within the years 2010-2015, in order to offer an up-to-date outline of the situation
Bibliotecari, bibliometria e valutazione della ricerca: riscoprire una competenza per valorizzare una professione
Get PDFUna delle questioni al centro del dibattito accademico degli ultimi anni è quella della valutazione della ricerca. Nel futuro prossimo infatti la ricerca sarà sempre più influenzata dalle procedure di valutazione, che decidono la ripartizione dei finanziamenti pubblici e si avvalgono di strumenti mutuati dal mondo della ricerca stessa: la peer review (metodo qualitativo) e la bibliometria (metodo quantitativo). Quest'ultima però è stata sviluppata sulla base delle cosiddette “scienze dure” ed è attualmente impossibile da applicare alle scienze umane. Per questa ragione, i bibliotecari dovrebbero riscoprire le loro competenze bibliometriche – originariamente sviluppate proprio all'interno delle biblioteche – per supportare la professione. Scopo dell’articolo è ribadire il legame esistente tra biblioteconomia, bibliografia e bibliometria, evidenziando il ruolo di supporto che i bibliotecari possono ricoprire anche nell’ambito della valutazione della ricerca. La bibliometria si presenta perciò come un’opportunità per arricchire e valorizzare la professione anche al di fuori dei servizi classici offerti dalle biblioteche.Research assessment is a hot topic in academic debate, as in the immediate future research will become more and more dependent on assessment procedures – i.e. peer review process (qualitative method) and bibliometrics (quantitative method) – for the allocation of public funds. Since bibliometric indicators have been originally developed for hard sciences, they don't fit for humanities. Therefore librarians should rediscover their bibliometric skills – originally developed within libraries – to support the profession. The article insists on the connection between library science and bibliometrics, and on the role that librarians could play in research assessment: seen in this light, bibliometrics is an opportunity to lead the profession beyond the boundary of the traditional library services
Recensione a: Andrea Bonaccorsi, La valutazione possibile. Teoria e pratica nel mondo della ricerca, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015, 233 p.
No full textRecensione del volume di Andrea Bonaccorsi "La valutazione possibile. Teoria e pratica nel mondo della ricerca", edito nel 2015 dalla casa editrice Il Mulino
SpinBook Project : crossing innovation boundaries through social interaction
No full textIn the last twenty years, scholarly research has extended its boundaries in order to reply to the increasing complexity of our society. Traditional scientific sectors and their research practices have become unsuitable especially for the production of new knowledge. In particular, the new knowledge creation is taking place also outside academic institutions (Nowotny, Scott & Gibbons, 2001), that have to enhance their relationship with Society: they are called to transfer their skills, competencies and research results to external actors in order to maximize their outcomes (European Commission, 2007).
These processes are not unidirectional, but they are characterized by multidirectional interactions and try to match supply with demand. Many categories of actors are involved in research transfer activities, first of all researchers with their ideas, results or need for new research funds. Research institutions have to adapt themselves to new global, European or national research policies (e.g. societal impact assessment). Companies and private sector need new ideas and opportunities in order to overcome recession. Governments want to assess their investment in order to account for their policies.
Various actors imply various needs, a heterogeneous system that needs to be coordinated. Until now, main channels for research results transfer have been the traditional patents databases, usually run by Intellectual Property Offices. These tools have some limits, especially their static structure that does not take advantage of potentialities of Web. Therefore, new instruments and environments for knowledge transmission are necessary: social media could answer to these requirements. Because of their features, scholarly community has increasingly employed social media in order to communicate their results in a better and faster way (Bik & Goldstein, 2013). Furthermore, studies about new metrics based on social media (Priem, Piwowar & Hemminger, 2012; Peters, Chen, Kaplan, Ognibeni & Pauwels, 2013) are developing.
These existing tools are very useful for scholarly communication growth, but they might not be so useful for the interaction between science and industry. They are too much ‘generalist’ and, most of all, are plenty of information noise. Moreover, some of them focus on traditional research outputs, instead of research outcomes (e.g. Academia.edu or ResearchGate ). For this reason, a new social media focused on innovation and knowledge transfer could increase the communication between various actors of the whole innovation system.
SpinBook, currently in beta version, is a new tool set up by IRCrES (Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth) within the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage of the National Research Council of Italy. It considers all types of actors involved in the innovation process, from researchers to companies, each one with a specific user profile. It is based on a solid data quality control and on a careful validation of users' profiles. Another important feature is the hour-by-hour updating of news about innovation topics.
This project aims to set up a real network between the actors of the innovation process, giving them a suitable visibility and also giving a boost to new ideas and projects
Bibliometrics and ‘core journals’ in the Humanities: an Italian case study
Get PDFThis paper analyses possible transformations in the publication behaviour of Italian humanistic researchers as a results of national research assessment exercises (VQR 2004-2010) and national habilitation exams for academic career (ASN 2012 and 2013). Case study is the humanists‟ community of Sapienza University of Rome, a representative sample of Italian context. In particular, this paper examines the use of scientific journals in the last ten years (2004-2014), before and after introduction of a journal rating system. Aim of this research is to verify, through experiment with Sapienza institutional database, if the number of journals selected as outputs by this scholarly community have been changed over the years, producing a more restricted set of “core” journals with a greater scientific strength
Le riviste scientifiche nell’ambito della ricerca nelle scienze umane
No full textLa comunicazione scientifica riconosce la rivista come un agile ed efficace strumento di condivisione e diffusione della conoscenza prodotta attraverso la ricerca. Nelle scienze dure la rivista ha assunto col tempo un dominio incontrastato, acquisendo le funzioni fondamentali di registrazione, certificazione, diffusione e conservazione. Le riviste scientifiche più autorevoli di ciascuna disciplina sono indicizzate dalle due grandi banche dati internazionali Web of Science e Scopus, i loro articoli hanno così una visibilità mondiale. Al contrario, nelle scienze umane l’articolo su rivista è tuttora considerato una forma minore di pubblicazione. Oltre a questo, le caratteristiche peculiari delle scienze umane si riflettono sulla loro produzione editoriale, rendendo più difficile una loro indicizzazione all’interno delle due grandi banche dati. Questo contributo si propone di verificare e quantificare la presenza delle riviste italiane di area umanistica all’interno di Web of Science e di Scopus, aggiornando un precedente lavoro (Capaccioni, Spina, 2012) e focalizzando l’analisi alle sole scienze umane.Scholarly communication acknowledges scientific journal as a flexible and effective tool for sharing and dissemination of knowledge generated through research. In the hard sciences, journal has taken an authentic leadership over time and it has obtained registration, certification, awareness and archiving basic functions. Core journals of each discipline are indexed by Web of Science and Scopus, the largest international databases, and their articles have a worldwide visibility. In contrast, journal article in the Humanities is still considered a lesser form of publication. Furthermore, Humanities’ features are reflected over their editorial output, preventing their indexing in Web of Science and Scopus. Aim of this article is to verify and measure Humanities Italian journals presence in Web of Science and Scopus, updating a previous work (Capaccioni & Spina, 2012) and focusing only on the Humanities, excluding social sciences
The social impact assessment in social sciences and humanities: methodological issues from the Italian experience
No full textIn the knowledge economy the evaluation of research institutions is an important element, in particular with respect to universities. Recently attention has been focused not only on the quality of research outputs (i.e. publications) but also on its external impact, i.e., the overall interaction between university and society. While the notion of impact is accepted and recognised in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, it is a source of much controversy in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Literature about research impact has often focused on technology transfer processes, marginalising social impact in favour of a strictly economic one. Therefore, this situation has probably distanced SSH from a serious reflection on these topics and on their role in so-called third mission of the university.
Moving from the current Italian experience of third mission assessment, the chapter surveys these developments and offers a number of suggestions for an assessment of SSH associated with a higher level of awareness of their impact within the policies of universities’ performances assessment. The comparison with the British assessment exercise of Research Excellence Framework could offer a significant source of reflection regarding choices associated with an evaluation process
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