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Meneghini, Rogerio – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2013
This essay discusses SciELO, a scientific journal database operating in 14 countries. It covers over 1000 journals providing open access to full text and table sets of scientometrics data. In Brazil it is responsible for a collection of nearly 300 journals, selected along 15 years as the best Brazilian periodicals in natural and social sciences.…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Journal Articles
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Chen, I-Min A.; Markowitz, Victor M. – Information Systems, 1995
Discussion of database management tools for scientific information focuses on the Object Protocol Model (OPM) and data management tools based on OPM. Topics include the need for new constructs for modeling scientific experiments, modeling object structures and experiments in OPM, queries and updates, and developing scientific database applications…
Descriptors: Database Management Systems, Databases, Models, Scientific and Technical Information
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Brown, Cecelia – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Discusses the growth in use and acceptance of Web-based genomic and proteomic databases (GPD) in scholarly communication. Confirms the role of GPD in the scientific literature cycle, suggests GPD are a storage and retrieval mechanism for molecular biology information, and recommends that existing models of scientific communication be updated to…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Models, Molecular Biology
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Small, Henry – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Applies a method for generating synopses of scientific fields to a co-citation cluster in field of cancer virology and describes the resulting specialty narrative. Implications of procedure for the cognitive processes involved in reviewing a field are discussed. Appended are lists of highly cited and citing papers. (35 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Artificial Intelligence, Bibliographic Coupling, Citations (References)
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Frohlich, Gerhard – Review of Information Science, 1996
Discusses research on scientific communication. Topics include theory-less and formal technical/natural scientific models of scientific communication; social-scientific, power-sensitive models; the sociology of scientific communication; sciences as fields of competition; fraud and deception; potential surplus value across subject information…
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Networks, Databases, Deception
Griffiths, Jose-Marie; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Presents a synopsis of the results of the first phase of a study project sponsored by the National Science Foundation that examined trends, opportunities, and problems in the dissemination of scientific and technical information in the United States. Findings that are summarized concern the use of information, information technologies, and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Databases, Engineers, Information Dissemination
Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Presents abstracts of 15 special interest group (SIG) sessions. Topics include navigation and information utilization in the Internet, natural language processing, automatic indexing, image indexing, classification, users' models of database searching, online public access catalogs, education for information professions, information services,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Automatic Indexing, Classification, Conferences