Driving Science Information Discovery in the Digital Age
- 1st Edition - September 30, 2021
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Author: Svetla Baykoucheva
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 7 2 3 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 7 2 4 - 3
New digital technologies have transformed how scientific information is created, disseminated—and discovered. The emergence of new forms of scientific publishing based on open sc… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNew digital technologies have transformed how scientific information is created, disseminated—and discovered. The emergence of new forms of scientific publishing based on open science and open access have caused a major shift in scientific communication and a restructuring of the flow of information. Specialized indexing services and search engines are trying to get into information seekers’ minds to understand what users are actually looking for when typing all these keywords or drawing chemical structures. Using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and semantic indexing, these "discovery agents" are trying to anticipate users’ information needs. In this highly competitive environment, authors should not sit and rely only on publishers, search engines, and indexing services to make their works visible. They need to communicate about their research and reach out to a larger audience. Driving Science Information Discovery in the Digital Age looks through the "eyes" of the main "players" in this "game" and examines the discovery of scientific information from three different, but intertwined, perspectives:
- Discovering, managing, and using information (Information seeker perspective)
- Publishing, disseminating, and making information discoverable (Publisher perspective)
- Creating, spreading, and promoting information (Author perspective).
- Presents an overview of the current scientific publishing landscape
- Shows how users can search for scientific information more efficiently
- Critically analyses the metrics used to measure the quality of journals and the impact of research
- Looks at the discovery of scientific information from the perspectives of information seekers, publishers, and authors
- Delves into the practices used by specialized indexing services and search engines to process scientific information and make it discoverable
- Recommends strategies that authors could use to promote their research
Scientific researchers who are engaged in publishing research; information professionals and instructors who are engaged in promoting research and increasing research impact within their institutions
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. Pathways to science information discovery
- Introduction
- Searching for information
- Selecting information resources
- Searching for chemical information
- Visual searching
- Linking data and citations
- Cited reference searching
- Encountering information: Discovering by accident (serendipity)
- Sharing information: Social media and networking
- Conclusion
- 2. Scientific publishing in transition: Evolution of peer review, academic impact, and reliability of scientific information
- Introduction
- Evolution of peer review
- Metrics for evaluating journals and individual researcher's work
- Preservation of the record of science
- The future of scientific publishing
- 3. Opening science
- Introduction
- Open Science
- Open Access to scientific publications
- Open research data
- Open citations
- Preprints vs journals
- Academic social sites: Unpaywalling research
- Shattering the scientific article
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Organizations promoting Open Access
- 4. Designing for information discovery
- Introduction
- Dissemination of scientific information
- Indexing
- Metadata
- Unique identifiers
- Author disambiguation tools
- Optimizing information discovery
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Discovery tools
- Conclusion
- 5. Discovering scientific information
- Introduction
- Communication formats
- Overview of science information resources
- Search engines
- Bibliographic indexing databases
- Finding chemical literature and properties of chemical compounds
- Managing search results
- Preprint servers
- Finding research data
- Finding patents and trademarks
- Social media as an information environment
- Conclusion
- 6. Promoting your research
- Introduction
- Titles and abstracts
- Why keywords are so important
- Selecting a journal
- Highlighting your research and raising your social media profile
- Strategies for making your research discoverable
- Conclusion
- 7. How Eugene Garfield's ideas and legacy revolutionized the discovery of scientific information
- Introduction
- The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
- Current Contents and the essays
- Citing, citation indexing, and citation linking
- Science Citation Index: the making of a citation-conscious society
- Journal Impact Factor (JIF): the making of a citation-obsessed society
- Web of Science
- Essential Science Indicators (ESI)
- Globalization of research
- Conclusion
- 8. Interviews with Eugene Garfield
- Interview with Eugene Garfield (Baykoucheva, 2006)
- From the Science Citation Index to the Journal Impact Factor and Web of Science: interview with Eugene Garfield (Baykoucheva, 2015)
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 30, 2021
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- No. of pages: 176
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128237236
- eBook ISBN: 9780128237243
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Svetla Baykoucheva
Svetla Baykoucheva (Baykousheva) is a Chemistry and Life Sciences Librarian at the University of Maryland College Park (USA), where she teaches chemical information. She holds a PhD in Microbiology, BS and MS degrees in Chemistry, and a Master’s in Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree. A postdoctoral fellowship from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) allowed her to specialise at the University of Paris VI (France) for one year. For more than 20 years she performed interdisciplinary research in infectious microbiology and biochemistry, publishing more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals (see her Google Scholar Profile). She has also served as the head of the White Memorial Chemistry Library at the University of Maryland College Park and as manager of the Library and Information Center of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington, D.C. In her role as editor of the Chemical Information Bulletin (published by the ACS Division of Chemical Information), she took numerous interviews from scholars, information experts, editors, and publishers. She previously published Managing Scientific Information and Research Data, also with Elsevier.
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