27 research outputs found
INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER MONOGRAPHS (IARC)
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Analisi citazionale e indicatori bibliometrici nel modello Open Access
No full textThis article is focused on the bibliometric methods used for research evaluation, within the well known field of the bibliometrics which uses mathematical and statistical techniques to analyze the publications distribution patterns, and to explore their impact into the scholarly communities. While the bibliometric methods are used more often in the LIS, bibliometrics offers a wide range of applications in a variety of fields of knowledge. Since the research evaluation requires a double approach: quantitative (bibliometric analysis) and qualitative (peer-review, panel...), the fundamental idea is that the measurement of the scientific knowledge uses both the methods.
Though the IF or impact factor is the most well known bibliometric index, is not the only one suggested by ISI (now Thompson) to refer. In the Open Access world are spreading a wide number of initiatives and projects regarding the “bibliometrics” field, in which are being testing alternative solutions to the traditional IF, for example the Eigenfactor, the Hirsch index and its variations like the g-index, a-index, h-b-index, tools that mark a meaningful change in this fascinating field.
While the indicators “author-produced” are the citations, those “reader-produced” are usage data collected through webserver and linkresolver logs. A quantitative bibliometric indicator of new generation is the Usage Factor UF, complementary but non substitutive of traditional or alternative impact factor indicator. It will be necessary to organize the log data collection to share methods to obtain significant analysis. The article goes over some examples of new tools/projects for citational analysis in the Web area, among these the Web Impact Factor (WIF), and for the statistical analysis of logs and data, both bringing back to the new science known as metric of the web or Webometric.
Within the OAI framework there are many research projects of the webometric type, involving the intellectual output archivied into the repositories and their impact within the constitutive processes of the scholarly communication.
The theory assuming that an open access article in more likely to be read and therefore cited is matter of international debates and object of several studies, aimed to analyze the effects of the open access model and of the download on the citational impact. The article closes with a critical report on some of the most important works investigating the validity of this theory, from the original study of Lawrence, on Nature 2001, to the most recent works, the three postulates of Kurtz, the analysis run in 2006 by the Cornell’s Library staff on the MathSciNet database, the study of Moed which imposed a completely new methodological level with the introduction of the “variable citation window”.
Useful tools for the citational bibliometric analysis, on the statistical usage measurement of the researchs for the successful data monitoring, should be in the hands of the research producers, not in the hands of those commercial oligopoles that can influence the investment strategies and the national and international policies for the research
Bibliographics for the 983 eprints in the live archives of E-LIS : trends and status report up to 7th July 2004, based on author-self-archiving metadata
No full textThe priority for ideas and philosophy related to "Network Theory" have been traced back and documented by Braun(2004),and credit goes to Karinthy(1929).The IT has empowered to realise it, as the most practical phenomena and it is no more a humour. The OAI (Open Archives Initiatives)and ACIS (Academic Contributor Information System)are progressive in the direction ,which may lead to realise the "Collective Genius" at global level. Focus of present study is on Author-Self-Archiving (A-S-A)Metadata of the 983 Eprints in the Live Archives of the E-LIS (EPrints of Library and Information Science),which were approved till 7th July 2004.The A-S-A Metadata was used for librametric analysis. Self-explanatory bibliographics are illustrated.The highlights include: Conference papers (34%); highest approval, June 2004 (28%); published archives (76%);not refereed (52%); not in public domain (60%); highest self-archiving-author (De Robbio, Antonella).The Nos. of EPrints having single JITA domain specifications were: Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information(27); Information use and sociology of information(80);Users,literacy and reading(13);Libraries as physical collections(30);Publishing and legal issues(57);Management(13);Industry, profession and education(36);Information sources, supports, channels(113) ; Information treatment for information services, Information functions and techniques (101); Technical services libraries, archives and museums(25); Housing technologies(1); Information technology and library technology(92); and Inter-domainery (395) i.e. having specifications of two or more than two JITA classes
A arte rupestre da Serra de Passos/Santa Comba - Garraia (portugal) no contexto da Península Ibérica. Um projeto de investigação para doutoramento
No full textApresenta-se neste texto o projecto de investigação para doutoramento intitulado «A arte
rupestre da Serra de Passos/Santa Comba -Garraia no contexto da Península Ibérica. Modos de partilha
de grafismos no âmbito da integração social e ideológica das comunidades da Pré-história Recente» que
tem sido desenvolvido pela signatária, desde Setembro de 2020, no âmbito do doutoramento em
Estudos do Património, variante Arqueologia, na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto.
Na Serra de Passos/Santa Comba - Garraia (concelhos de Mirandela, Valpaços e Murça, norte de
Portugal) destaca-se o maior conjunto de Arte esquemática pintada em Portugal, cujo valor único
transcende o território português, sendo também o maior conjunto do Noroeste peninsular e da zona sul
da fachada atlântica europeia. O seu estudo global nunca foi, porém, realizado. Num contexto de
investigação regional, já profícuo em dados arqueológicos, a não integração do potencial de informação
que a Serra fornecerá é uma lacuna incontornável no entendimento da Pré-história regional e peninsular,
lacuna essa que visamos colmatar. Realizaremos a prospecção da Serra e o estudo científico dos seus
grafismos.Num discurso atualizado, assumindo os grafismos como elementos ativos da cultura material,
discutiremos os modos de ocupação e de interação social, ideológica e identitária das comunidades que
ocuparam a região do VI ao II milénioAC,facultando assim um incontestável contributo ao entendimento
das relações intercomunitárias peninsulares na Pré-história recente.This text aims to present the PHD project «The rock art of Passos/Santa Comba-Garraia Mountain, in the context of the Iberian Peninsula. Ways of sharing graphisms in Late prehistoric communities’ social and ideological sphere». This PHD project has been developed by the author, since September 22, in the 3rd Cycle of Studies in Heritage Studies - Archaeology, in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. In Passos/Santa Comba-Garraia Mountain (located in the counties of Mirandela, Valpaços and Murça, north of Portugal) we highlight presence of the major group of painted schematic rock art in Portugal, which value exceeds the Portuguese territory as it is also the major set of the northwest Iberia or of the south of the European Atlantic façade. However its study, as a whole, as never been done. In the context of a vast regional research, the absence of a con-substantiated interpretation of Passos/Santa Comba-Garraia data representes a gap in the knowledge of regional and Iberian Late prehistory. That’s the gap we aim to fill within this project. According to updated methodologies we are doing the Mountain survey and the scientific record and study of the rock art. In our approach we assume graphisms as material cultural active elements and, according to that perspective we will discuss the prehistoric occupation, social and ideological interaction and identity among communities that occupied the region from the 6th to the 2nd millennium BC
Scholarly communication and open access : research communities and their publishing patterns [New Trends in Scholarly Communication : how do Authors of different research communities consider OA?]
No full textAt the time of the Budapest Declaration, self-archiving supporters looked like a revolutionary, "anti-commercial publishers" movement. Today, after some years debate (and technological innovation in research and scientific e-publishing), antagonist positions are able to compromise and consider the tradeoffs.
What is really changing in the Authors' attitude towards institutional or disciplinary repositories, and peer reviewed open access journals?
Many recent papers have investigated these topics. From these sources we can note that Biomedical Authors behave differently from Physicists, Astronomers and Mathematicians, who have been using open archives for such a long time. Therefore we intend to analyze these different trends in the diverse communities.
Several aspects also deserve a careful attention: the role of new OA journals in evaluation processes (i.e. their impact and citations), implementation and maintenance costs of institutional repositories, the evolution of bibliometric indicators.
We intend also to discuss the role of libraries in service innovation and e-publishing promotion. The main areas where a key role may be played are: institutional repository management and users' training, the promotion of OA journals and information about evaluation methods (both qualitative and quantitative).
We think that the transition towards new communication models may be a great opportunity that libraries have to be ready to support
Conference Institutional archives for research: experiences and projects in Open Access Istituto Superiore di Sanità Rome, 30 November - 1 December 2006
No full textThe Congress was organised into four sessions: 1) Open Access (OA) and authors: support from the international community; 2) OA in Italy: knowledge and tools to write and search; 3) institutional policies for OA; 4) opportunities and services to develop OA. It was aimed at achieving the following objectives: a) make authors of biomedical publications aware of the benefits of depositing research material in digital open archives and publishing in OA peer-reviewed journals; b) outline the impact of the OA publishing model on the assessment of research output; c) enhance the adoption of policies encouraging the OA paradigm; d) promote cooperation between research institutions in Italy and abroad to share resources and experiences on institutional repositories. A useful introductory bibliography on the OA publishing model in the biomedical field is included in the Appendix
Net generation and digital literacy: a short bibliographical review and some remarks
No full textA far reaching discussion on the net generation and the need to update teaching methods has been ongoing for a while. A large number of papers on this topic have been published. The most relevant reviews point out that by and large the use of social networks by the net generation does not mean that young people has natural digital skills/competencies they apply in the learning activities.
The present brief review discusses the relevant literature considering the various definitions of “digital literacies” . In particular an JISC study “Thriving in the 21st century. Learning Literacies for the Digital Age” (LLiDA Project) is cited, because of its approach to a very detailed definition of learning literacies.
Moreover, in spite of them making use of the most recently available sources like Wikipedia recent papers have shown that the search and reading approach of the net generation – lacks selection criteria and quality evaluation skills.
In the conclusions the Author raises questions on the best e-learning methods to teach digital literacies, in a context where the change is fast, and the traditional LMS approach may be a waste of time and money - and, very difficult to put in practice in a time of retrenchment for Italian Universities
Quid agendum ? "Net generation" e competenze digitali
No full textIt is a long time that a large discussion is open about the net generation and the need to update teaching methods. A large number of papers are published about this topic; the most relevant reviews point out that, in general, the use of social networks by the net generation does not mean that young people has natural digital skills/competencies they apply in the learning activities.
The present short review discusses the literature about this subject; different definitions of “digital literacies are considered”. In particular a JISC study “Thriving in the 21st century. Learning Literacies for the Digital Age” (LLiDA Project) is cited, because its approach to a very detailed definition of learning literacies.
Moreover, recent papers show that the search and reading approach of the net generation – though making use of the most recently available sources like Wikipedia – is lacking of selection criteria and quality evaluation skills.
In the conclusions the Author asks some questions about the best e-learning methods to teach digital literacies, in a context where the change is so fast, and the traditional LMS approach may be a waste of time and money (and, very difficult to put in practice in a time of retrenchment for Italian Universities)
Occurrence of triazine herbicides and metolachlor in the Niagara River and other major tributaries draining into Lake Ontario
No full textIncorporación y transcripción del léxico griego al latín en la Época Augústea, a través de las Odas de Horacio
No full textIn the present work we analyze the incorporation and the transcription of the Greek lexicon during the August period. From the theoretical planting that has been carried out by various authors (Comba, Faria, Mendes de Almeida, Rubio), we have found that it is a subject of difficult systematization, due to the great diversity of possible variants. We have chosen for its analysis a corpus of five and three Greek terms that appear in the six first days of the Book of the Latin poet Horacio and we study the resources of the author to adapt them to Latin, indicating the linguistic peculiarities suffered in the transit of a language to another . We distinguished in our other conclusions between the concepts of "incorporation" and "transcription" of a Greek term in Latin, arguing their differences; we also attend to the difficulties arising from the graphic transcription of different sounds between the languages.En el presente trabajo analizamos la incorporación y la transcripción del léxico griego al latín durante la Época Augústea. A partir del planteamiento teórico que se hace de la cuestión por varios autores (Comba, Faria, Mendes de Almeida, Rubio), comprobamos que se trata de un tema de difícil sistematización, por la gran diversidad de variantes posibles. Escogimos para su análisis un corpus de cincuenta y tres términos griegos que aparecen en las seis primeras odas del Libro I del poeta latino Horacio y estudiamos los recursos del autor para adaptarlas al latín, indicando las peculiaridades lingüísticas sufridas en el tránsito de una lengua a otra. Distinguimos en nuestras conclusiones entre los conceptos de "incorporación" y de "transcripción" de un término griego al latín, argumentando sus diferencias; atendemos también a las dificultades surgidas con la transcripción gráfica de sonidos diferentes entre las dos lenguas
