Driving Science Information Discovery in the Digital Age

Svetla Baykoucheva (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2021
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-823723-6 (ISBN)

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New 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).

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.

Preface
1. Pathways to science information discovery
2. Scienti?c publishing in transition: Evolution of peer review, academic impact, and reliability of scienti?c information
3. Opening science
4. Designing for information discovery
5. Discovering scienti?c information
6. Promoting your research
7. How Eugene Gar?eld’s ideas and legacy revolutionized the discovery of scienti?c information
8. Interviews with Eugene Gar?eld

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	Chandos Information Professional Series
Zusatzinfo	26 illustrations (13 in full color); Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	0-12-823723-6 / 0128237236
ISBN-13	978-0-12-823723-6 / 9780128237236
Zustand	Neuware