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Domas Kaunas

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Eungi Kim

Journals that have consistently maintained uninterrupted indexing over an extended period can be assumed to possess stability and sustainability in journal indexing. Building on this assumption, the objective of this study is to scrutinize the years omitted in the indexing of Scopus-indexed journals. To conduct this study, three coverage duration indicators—nyears-covered (total years covered), nyears-skipped (years skipped), and skipped/covered ratio (proportion of years skipped to total years covered)—were formulated. Data from SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) for 2022, consisting of 16,762 records (62% of downloaded data) with a coverage duration of 25 years or less, were used for this study. The results revealed that around 10% of Scopus-indexed journals experienced exclusions or coverage gaps. Longer coverage correlates positively with documents published, h-index, and citations, while skipped years decrease with these indicators. Open access (OA) journals exhibited a lower skipped/covered ratio than non-OA journals, suggesting a better sustainability of indexing than non-OA journals. Disciplinary differences in Scopus journal coverage duration revealed notable variation, suggesting that coverage duration indicators can be effectively used to evaluate journal stability within Scopus. Overall, the coverage gaps reflect Scopus’s efforts to regulate the journals it indexes. The coverage duration indicators proposed in this study can be applied to assess the stability of periodicals in any database, providing insights into the broader dynamics and quality standards maintained by a database, where the database periodically adds and removes its indexed contents.

Marina Salse, Javier Guallar-Delgado, Núria Jornet-Benito et al.

Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine which metadata schemas are used in the museums and university collections of the main universities in Spain and other European countries. Although libraries and archives are also university memory institutions (according to a Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums perspective), their collections are not included in this study because their metadata systems are highly standardized and their inclusion would, therefore, skew our understanding of the diverse realities that the study aims to capture. Design/methodology/approach The analysis has three components. The first is a bibliographic review based on Web of Science. The second is a direct survey of the individuals responsible for university collections to understand their internal work and documentation systems. Finally, the results obtained are complemented by an analysis of collective university heritage portals in Europe. Findings The results of this study confirmed the hypothesis that isolation and a lack of resources are still major issues in many cases. Increasing digitalization and the desire to participate in content aggregation systems are forcing change, although the responsibility for that change at universities is still vague. Originality/value Universities, particularly those with a long history, have an important heritage whose parts are often scattered or hidden. Although many contemporary academic publications have focused on the dissemination of university collections, this study focuses on the representation of information based on the conviction that good metadata are essential for dissemination.

Lourdes Jacqueline Barros Raza, Evelin Fernanda Velasco Acurio

Introducción: El control prenatal es un conjunto de actividades y procedimientos que el equipo de salud ofrece a la embarazada, para la prevención de complicaciones, por medio del diagnóstico precoz de factores de riesgo en la gestante y enfermedades que puedan afectar el curso normal del embarazo y la salud del recién nacido. Objetivo: Identificar los factores asociados a la falta de control prenatal en América latina y su relación con las complicaciones obstétricas. Métodos: investigación de diseño documental con revisión bibliográfica en las bases de datos: PubMed, BVS, Scielo, Latindex, Lilacs y Google académico, con los descriptores de ciencias de la salud (DeCS) de Bireme y los Medical Subject Headings (MesH) de la National Library of Medicine: atención prenatal, embarazo, complicaciones del embarazo, salud materno-infantil, en idioma español e inglés durante el periodo 2015-2021. Resultados: La búsqueda inicial de información reportó un total de 1718 registros, de los cuales 86 eran elegibles, de estos 56 no fueron relevantes, por lo que quedan incluidos 30 que permitieron dar cumplimiento al objetivo de estudio con los cuales se procedió al meta-análisis. Conclusiones: Los factores asociados a la falta de control prenatal son: el bajo nivel de instrucción, ocupaciones del hogar y crianza, falta de empleo, escasos recursos económicos, ubicación geográfica, falta de afiliación, creencias y costumbres, estos factores se relacionan con complicaciones obstétricas como: infecciones, anemia, preeclampsia, hemorragias, desgarros perineales, alumbramiento incompleto, bajo peso y prematuridad. Palabras claves: atención prenatal, embarazo, complicaciones del embarazo, salud materno-infantil ABSTRACT Introduction: Prenatal control is a set of activities and procedures that the health team offers to the pregnant woman, for the prevention of complications, through the early diagnosis of risk factors in the pregnant woman and diseases that may affect the normal course of pregnancy. and the health of the newborn. Objective: To identify the factors associated with the lack of prenatal control in Latin America and its relationship with obstetric complications. Methods: documentary design research with bibliographic review in databases: PubMed, BVS, Scielo, Latindex, Lilacs and academic Google, with the descriptors of health sciences (DeCS) from Bireme and the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) from the National Library of Medicine: prenatal care, pregnancy, pregnancy complications, maternal and child health, in Spanish and English during the period 2015-2021. Results: The initial search for information reported a total of 1718 records, of which 86 were eligible, of these 56 were not relevant, so 30 are included that allowed the fulfillment of the study objective with which the goal was carried out. analysis. Conclusions: The factors associated with the lack of prenatal control are: low level of education, home occupations and upbringing, lack of employment, scarce economic resources, geographic location, lack of affiliation, beliefs and customs, these factors are related to complications obstetrics such as: infections, anemia, preeclampsia, hemorrhages, perineal tears, incomplete delivery, low weight and prematurity.Keywords: prenatal care, pregnancy, pregnancy complications, maternal and child health

Hanane El Yousfi

L'intégration de la composante Technologies de l’Information au sein de la recherche en Science de l'Information à l’ESI pose des problèmes de cadrage et de positionnement de la discipline Science de l'Information, et des applications technologiques provenant d’autres disciplines notamment l'informatique et la télématique. A l’ESI, la recherche introduisant une technologie de l'information s’est considérablement développée durant les dix dernières années et s'oriente actuellement vers le processus de communication de l'information, mais cette composante reste un corps étranger par rapport à la discipline de base, ce qui nous pousse à considérer que les besoins de formation en technologies de l'information ne doivent plus se penser en termes d'apprentissage technique, mais en termes d'intégration dans la discipline science de l'information, en termes de formation de l'usager et en termes d'amélioration de la créativité des savoirs. Ces besoins doivent être intégrés dans le processus de la formation d’une façon plus réfléchie et plus ciblée en se basant sur des situations concrètes de terrain.

Angela Vicente Alonso Watari, Gislene Munhoz dos Santos, Régis Martins et al.

O presente artigo aborda o uso da informação no contexto das redes sociais digitais trazendo a competência em informação e digital como mecanismos de atuação para o combate à desinformação. Considerando o contexto da sociedade contemporânea a qual evidenciam-se uma avalanche de informações e o aumento de notícias falsas no ambiente digital, torna-se imprescindível identificar a veracidade das informações, a fim de não ser absorvido nas armadilhas da desinformação e fake news. Dessa forma, suscita-se refletir: Como pensar em estratégias para o combate à desinformação por meio das práticas em competência em informação? Assim, configura-se como objetivo deste artigo propor alternativas para o combate à desinformação. A metodologia utilizada foi uma pesquisa bibliográfica de abordagem qualitativa. Como conclusão deste estudo identificamos a importância dos investimentos em formação dos indivíduos para o desenvolvimento das competências em informação e digitais à luz da fundamentação das quatro dimensões da competência, possibilitando aos indivíduos se tornar capazes de lidar com ferramentas tecnológicas e redes sociais digitais de forma responsável e crítica ante a desinformação.

Petra Düren, Ane Landøy

Strategic planning in academic and public libraries is vital and gaining importance in libraries all over the world. In this research project –using the qualitative method of documentary research based on “convenience sampling” –33 strategies from libraries from eleven countries are analysed regarding their time period, vision and mission, as well as values of the libraries, and their strategic programs. This research analyses only 33 libraries from eleven different countries, as not every library has published its strategy and a lot of libraries do not have a strategy at all. As such the results of this research are limited and cannot be transferred to all libraries, however interesting results could still be found. Of the analysed libraries one-third have not formulated a vision, about two-thirds did not write down their mission and more than half of them did not express their values. All libraries have developed strategic ideas and programs to develop their library, their staff as well as their services. Another interesting aspect is that not all aspects of the libraries’ values have been considered and are included in the libraries’ strategic programs.There are good and complete library strategies published, but more can be done in developing and implementing strategies in libraries –probably worldwide. This documentary research is helpful, as not only can be seen where libraries are heading in the future, but it can also help library leaders of libraries without a current strategy to gain ideas and transfer those to their own libraries .

Елена Борисовна Артемьева, Г. М. Вихрева, Ольга Павловна Федотова

The regional system of professional education has rightly one of the prior places in the structure of its basic socio-economic processes, responding to the outward environment influence (socio-cultural, economic, legislative and other changes), and, in its turn, having retaliatory impact on it. In the structure of the scientific-educational complex of Siberia Novosibirsk plays the leading role. Here function higher educational establishments, which execute specialists» training, retraining and qualification upgrading, as well as scientific-research institutions of the Novosibirsk scientific center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian academy of sciences and institutions of other departments. All higher educational establishments of the city and a greater part of scientific-research institutions have libraries in their structure. Since the vital problem of today is forming the united system of providing regional educational and scientific institutions with information resources necessary for successful scientific-educational activities, the subject of this article authors» research interests is the «proper» and real place of the library socio-cultural institutions in this structure. State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS) is the largest library of the regional scientific-educational complex. Providing the users» access to information resources is the main direction of the Library activity. At the same time, having the license for educational activity, SPSTL SB RAS is itself the subject of the educational space: it organizes courses of librarians» retraining and qualification upgrading, cooperates with higher educational establishments of the type in training students. Being the scientific-research institution SPSTL SB RAS has its post-graduate studentship on training scientific specialists of the highest qualification in the research areas «Library, bibliography and book science». The dialectic approach, permitting to view library-information and educational spheres of the large scientific library activity in their unity and interconditionality, was the common methodological basis for the research undertaken. The article substantiates the role and place of SPSTL SB RAS in forming the modern regional system of professional education, outlines perspectives for creating the reciprocity model of libraries for the scientific-education complex as a whole and integration and diversification of information supply for the sphere and discipline discourse.

Aixchel Cordero Hidalgo, David Picazo, Laura Patricia Murguía Jáquez

Julian Warner

The paper is concerned with the justification for human indexing, in the modern era. We understand human indexing in a classic sense, of human description of information objects in accord with a controlled vocabulary. A justification for human indexing would be, when it yields a value commensurate with its cost. A long historically established value for retrieval systems is selection power, or an enhanced capacity for informed choice for the searcher. The question of the justification for human indexing is made analytically tractable by reversing the historical order of development. We ask, what forms of selection power are <strong>not</strong> readily obtainable from human use of computationally generated selection processes in searching? Selection processes widely available for searching written documents, for words, phrases, and combinations of words and phrases, are reviewed in ascending order of creativity. <strong>Human indexing is strongly justified, when the exchange value involved in producing its use value (likely to be realized as generic power) are commensurate with the exchange value it can command.</strong> The argument is conducted with written documents as examples but the possibility of extension of its conclusion to non-written documents is indicated.

Χρήστος Σαμαράς, Μαρία Νιάρη, Χρήστος Παναγιωτακόπουλος et al.

Although the World Wide Web gives researchers unprecedented opportunities to find and distribute research results, the increasing amount of on-line information is causing problems to the users and providers of information services. Users are finding it progressively harder to retrieve the information that is of specific interest to them amongst a huge volume of irrelevant data. Even when they discover a resource that seems relevant, they cannot easily find out whether the information is reliable and recent. Library & Information Service of the University of Patras trying to fulfill the new role of academic libraries in organizing and accessing the information and also contributing to the development of new electronic services for supporting the educational activities proceeded with the development of three online subject gateways to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the subject fields of Biology, Geology and Education sciences. Basic guide of the design of this project was to utilize the expertise of our own staff in technological and bibliographical matters. This approach was also the most cost-efficient solution. During the initial requirement analysis of the project we had to set standards for: - the retrieval and the evaluation of the electronic resources with the setting of quality criteria, - the cataloguing, classification and subject indexing of the electronic resources and - the design and the development of open architecture software, fully configurable and modular.

Yesan Sellan, S. Head

This research article studies the information seeking search strategies used by theological faculty members in Tamil Nadu. It is based on a structured questionnaire sent to 120 select faculty members, of which 101 questionnaires were returned, achieving a response rate of 84%. Major findings of this study contribute to understanding the awareness and use of search options among respondents. Basic and keyword search options are commonly used by respondents in online sources while preferences for references from books and journals are more popular among faculty members to locate bibliographic information in print sources. This study further noted that faculty members are generally seeking information for preparing class lectures and preaching sermons and respondents indicated that Google searching is highly used by them for locating online information. The respondents expressed that borrowing books and using reference books and journals are the most compelling reasons for visiting libraries. Reading table of contents and reading specific articles are common strategies used by faculty members while looking for information in print resources. The non-availability of full-text articles, lack of scholarly national publications and retrieving irrelevant articles are problems faculty members commonly face while searching online resources. The findings of this study have impact on library instruction, and for improving library services and collections in theological institutions in Tamil Nadu. Introduction Information seeking is a continuous activity that involves searching, locating and using information for one’s needs. Information seeking behaviour, as described by Wilson (1999), includes “those activities a person may engage in when identifying their own needs for information, searching for such information in any way, and using or transferring that information” (p. 249). Information seeking strategies is one of the Big6 skills in information processing models proposed by Eisenberg and Berwokitz (1990). Information seeking is also represented in Lowe and Eisenberg’s (2008) methodology. Wilson (1999) defines the various methods used to locate information in print and online digital environments. Information Search Strategies Among Theological Faculty Members in Tamil Nadu Yesan Sellan, Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science Bishop Heber College and Chief Librarian, South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS) S. Ally Sornam, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Bishop Heber College

Arvydas Pacevičius

[straipsnis ir santrauka lietuvių kalba; santrauka anglų kalba] Straipsnyje, remiantis projektinės veiklos ir fundamentinių tyrimų rezul­tatų analize, aptariami paskutinių penkerių metų egodokumentų tyri­mų pasiekimai ir perspektyvios studijų kryptys, ryškėjančios europinėje mokslo erdvėje ir Lietuvoje. Lietuvoje apie 2010 metus į mokslinį diskursą įvedus naują terminą egodokumentas, pastebimos sistemingesnės raš­tijos pirmuoju asmeniu studijos (projektai LEGODOK ir „Asmeninės lietuvių rašomosios kalbos duomenų bazės (AKdb) kūrimas“). Lietuvo­je bendrąja tyrimų tendencija laikytinos elito savimonės ir tapatumo raiškos studijos, į tyrimų lauką įtraukiančios naujus šaltinius (album amicorum). Tarpdalykiniai ,,apačių“ tyrimai veržliai plėtojami Šiaurės Europoje. Villa Vignoni forumas inspiravo solidžias publikacijas, skirtas asmens, šeimos ir bendruomenių tapatumams transkultūrinėje perspek­tyvoje. Kaimyninėje Lenkijoje leidžiami egodokumentiniai istorijos šalti­niai ir fundamentiniai tyrimai neretai aprėpia ir senosios Lietuvos pro­blematiką. Daroma išvada, kad plečiant tarptautinį bendradarbiavimą su kaimynais, Lietuvoje tęstini tiek lietuviškos egodokumentikos paveldo kaip kalbinės tapatybės raiškos, tiek transkultūriniai daugiakalbystės ir įvairialypio tapatumo sklaidos modernėjančioje visuomenėje tyrimai.

Igor Eberhard, Wolfgang Kraus

Von den meisten Fördergebern im wissenschaftlichen Bereich wird heute Forschungsdatenmanagement erwartet. Eine Grundlage dessen ist die Zugänglichkeit und Nachhaltigkeit der Daten. FAIR Data Principles und möglichst auch Open Access zu Daten gelten dabei als wesentliche Kriterien. Im Zusammenhang mit ethnographischen Forschungsdaten stößt man jedoch, wie durch das an der Universität Wien angesiedelte Pilotprojekt „Ethnographische Datenarchivierung“ aufgezeigt, bald auf große Herausforderungen für Repositorien, die den Möglichkeiten für Verfügbarmachung und Nachnutzung von Daten Grenzen setzen. Neben fachspezifischen und praktischen Gründen sind es vor allem rechtliche und ethische Anforderungen, die neue Wege erfordern. Der Artikel geht ethnographischer Forschung im Spannungsfeld von fachspezifischen, rechtlichen und ethischen Anforderungen für Repositorien nach.

Maite Ángel Morán Paredes

El esperpento cinematográfico: de El pisito a Crimen ferpecto

Tomasz Miksa, Andreas Rauber, Roman Ganguly et al.

Data management plans are free-form text documents describing the data used and produced in scientific experiments. The complexity of data-driven experiments requires precise descriptions of tools and datasets used in computations to enable their reproducibility and reuse. Data management plans fall short of these requirements. In this paper, we propose machine-actionable data management plans that cover the same themes as standard data management plans, but particular sections are filled with information obtained from existing tools. We present mapping of tools from the domains of digital preservation, reproducible research, open science, and data repositories to data management plan sections. Thus, we identify the requirements for a good solution and identify its limitations. We also propose a machine-actionable data model that enables information integration. The model uses ontologies and is based on existing standards.

Lizbeth Berenice Herrera Delgado

The present theoretical article is the result of an investigation that combines the Systems Engineering and the Library Sciences; it shows an interdisciplinary approach to the problem presented by the descriptive databases of the digital library, problematic generated by the change in the principles of organization of the information and the demands that the digital environment imposes to the libraries. The analysis leads to a rethinking about the construction of descriptive databases, migrating from the Entity–relationship Model (ER model) to adopt the Object-oriented Modeling (OOM), which is currently used for the construction and programmatic development of the semantic web. Therefore, this theoretical article proposes an Object-oriented Conceptual Modeling under its own methodology, which it develops the process to generate the proposed model in two stages. The first is to approach the problem, while the second corresponds to the identification of elements that includes elements of the Resources, Description and Access (RDA) rules and observes the theoretical principles that establish the Functional Fequirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). Already as a whole, all data are analyzed to generate the design proposal of three object-oriented conceptual modeling for descriptive databases: 1) the Work model, 2) the Domain model, and 3) the Instance model, to form a more adequate and descriptive database of the library in this digital era.

Reba L. Anderson

A. Ojedokun, V. Okafor

A. Gasparyan, L. Ayvazyan, G. Kitas

The past five decades have witnessed the so-called data deluge and publication explosion across all branches of science (1). Numerous academic journals have been launched that use a systematic approach to the submission, peer review, and publishing of information. To facilitate the wide use of published sources, libraries across the world have expanded cataloguing and advanced literature search techniques. The first major step towards indexing academic journals and helping libraries acquire the most influential sources was made by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia, USA, in 1960. The idea behind indexing and distributing information on published articles was to facilitate scientific communication between authors and readers (2). In other words, indexing was proposed as a tool for finding relevant sources of interest to the consumers. The originator of the idea, Eugene Garfield, also the founder of the ISI, formulated several critical points in bibliometrics that have shaped citation indexes, for example, libraries with limited funding should be selective about the journals they acquire; most read and highly cited journals constitute 'quality' sources; highly cited articles influence science; citations from highly-cited journals are weighed more than those from low-cited ones; and a bibliography should selectively cover 'high quality' sources.