Dr Félix de Moya, Vice-rector of New Technologies, University of Granada, Spain.

 Agenda

•       Background and rationale
•       Scientific knowledge production in Ibero-America (regional, national and institutional levels).
•       Information use and consumption concepts
•       Use and consumption indicators
•       Conclussions
•       Resources 

Knowledge generation system and scientific information

•         Three types of infrastructure to generate scientific knowledge:
•         Human resources
•         Physical infrastructure
•         Informational infrastructures
•         Most of world scientific knowledge is generated by accumulation
•         The process of knowledge generation improves with excessive informational offer. 

Background and rationale

•         Changes in the world of scientific publications
•         Electronic offer and ocurrence of ubiquitous document
•         Consorted acquisition
•         From the purchasing unit journal to the purchasing unit package.
•         Increase in the offer of contents
•         Access-based analysis
•         Administrative mediation of libraries
•         Development of open access offer.
•         Emergence of mobility-favoring technologies .

Characteristics

•         Coverage
•         Global versus Bradford
•         Generation of indicators.
•         Supplementary representations.
•         Flexibility in the definitions of domains
•         System supporting decision-making

Maps

•         Source: ISI-WOS
•         SCOPUS alternative
•         Measuring units: Cooperation and  co-citing
•         Papers, authors, journals, institutions, categories.
•         Matrix generation:
•         Pruning algorithms: MST, PFNET
•         Layout:
•         Spring Embedding: Kamada Kawai

SCIMAGO Group

•         Researchers from five universities
•         UAH, UC3M, UEX, UOC AND UGR
•         Analysis and evaluation of scientific domains
•         Specific reports
•         Information system of  the Atlas of Sciences
•      www.scimago.es     www.atlasofscience.net
•         Graphical interfaces for scientific information access
•         Tools for research evaluation in national, institutional, group or individual domains.

Conclussions

•         Linking the existence of information infrastructures with generation of knowledge and socioeconomic development.
•         Relating scientific information offer to research results
•         Supplementing indicators of use with consumption indicators.
•         Assessing the information use and consumption as differential element in the process of knowledge generation by accumulation.
•         In conclussion: developing a regional scientific information system focused on the compliance with informational behaviour regulations by researchers.