Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Se trata de una obra en la que, en seis capítulos, autores con una formación en diversas áreas como la sociología, la psicología, estudios organizacionales, estudios sobre educación e ingeniería química, abordan el estudio de problemas de la realidad contemporánea en México, utilizando el análisis de redes sociales (ars) como una forma de hacer investigación social.

The scientific production of Mexico registered in Web of Science from 1900-2000 in the areas of Exact Sciences and Engineering is analyzed to describe the way in which female researchers are integrated in the development of these fields of study. The paper employs a quantitative bibliometric method, applying indicators of gender, scientific output and impact, and analysis of bibliometric networks of co-authorship. InMexico, researchers in exact sciences and engineering published their first papers in the first half of the 20th century, but female researchers working in Syntex laboratories did not publish until the 1940s. As more women joined faculties in higher education and research centers in the 60s and 70s, publication by female researchers began to increase accordingly. This growth also appears to be associated with changesin career choice by women. While the contributions of this work represent an advantage for the scientific community itself, they also are useful for organizations that promote gender equity and institutions that integrate female researchers in this field of study.

Metric patent studies since the end of the last century are a valuable tool for scientific technological and innovation surveillance, becoming an indispensable instrument for knowing the international technological behavior. However, patentometric studies are not applied optimally by all countries or by all international organizations, nor are all the potential of these studies used to know the different contexts of a country’s technological innovations. This research aims to analyze the metric behavior of patents granted in Cuba applying an own methodology that describes the main technological scientific innovations patented by the Cuban Office of Industrial Property. The proposed methodology uses proIntec software for the download, normalization, processing, analysis and visualization of data from patents, and applies a large group of relational and complex metrics, as well as social networking techniques to visualize the main behaviors of Cuban technological innovations. The final results show the potential of metric patent studies to represent the country’s technological developments and its contributions to the national science and technological innovation system.

This work represents a new alternative for the study, classification and comparison of the scientific production corresponding to research entities. It consists on the application of statistical data processing functions available in the R software’s Citan package. In particular, the bibliometric study of publications of universities of A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo, in the period 2000-2011, compiled by the Scopus database. The study was conducted using the statistical  analysis of the data, the application of models of Lotka and Price, nonparametric and parametric modeling (Pareto) of the data, and the calculation and analysis of indicators of the scientific production like the h and g indexes, and others lesser known as rp1, lp, Ge1, Ge5 and Slp1. A novelty consists in a variant of the h index (hh) that defines the group of researchers who are the most productive of each university, the elite, and estimates the researching quality of such representative elites.

An informational metric study of San Luis Potosí state’s institutional scientific productivity from 1920 to 2015 is presented. The informational metric instrument is created from two mainstream data bases, a historic data base and institutional reservoirs. The final analysis was performed on 6,574 bibliographic records, signed by authors from 59 Potosinian scientific institutions. The main characteristics found in the scientific literature reflect a high concentration of scientific collaboration and a clear correlation between the scientific disciplines presented in Potosinian institutions and the estate areas of innovation and development.

Through a review of the work of Franco Moretti and others, this paper examines the concept of distant reading and close reading in recognition of abundant information and diverse phenomena of cultural praxis of the digital age, ranging from the traditional education models to modern cultural currents. The paper concludes that in the current context of globalization and hybridization of contents, the school and the library should learn from alternative cultural practices and strive to return to intensive reading under other assumptions and other strategies.

Biblio-therapy, an age-old technique, has recently regained some momentum in diverse settings around the world. This therapeutic-didactic approach posits that one can regain or improve health by reading on a regular basis. Taking this as a point of departure, the idea that significant acts of reading elicit changes in the reader, theorists and active practitioners of bibliotherapy argue that books can improve the well-being of individuals, particularly when it is guided in some way. This paper offers an assessment of concepts and current trends in biblio-therapy as an interdisciplinary practice, along with an exploration of potential paths for further development.

The postmodern Archivology exhibits the influence of standards that guide and regulate file and records management. Nowadays, the technical processes of information and documentation, services management, information centers and records management systems are founded on standards that allow systematic, uniform and effective operations. The aim of this work is to identify, describe and categorize the standards addressing content representation and retrieval, and the continuity and preservation of digital resources, the quality review of systems, business excellence and records management systems. Largely descriptive, this study focuses on identification of these standards and their implementation in Archivology curricula. The modern society requires professionals who are able to work in diverse workplace environments, possessed of the skills needed to implement all manner of operations and processes entailed in information management. As a result, the professional profile of the Archive specialist should match standardized, homogeneous models that include all kinds of practices.

The implementation of new systems for the creation, storage and dissemination of information is a key factor in the rapid growth of open data access through technical and computational mechanisms. Open data, big data, and social networks have transformed the work in mass media, driving the creation of a world of globalized information. This transformation also involves changes in the work of documentalists and journalists. Through a review of current research, including case studies, this paper analyzes from the standpoint of big data the processes,  methods and tools oriented to media documentation. In addition to changes in professional routines, a set of contradictions between the semantic web and big data with regard to the objectives of transparency and understanding of information. Finally, from the documentary level, it is important to weigh the benefits reaped by broad data dissemination against those provided by filtering.

This paper provides a reflection on the use of open standards within collections, specifically with regard to software, file formats and management and preservation systems, exploring requirements of a preservation policy for the production and preservation of documents. The applied methodology deployed in this research entails a literature review from which data is gathered and subjected to qualitative analysis, which moves from the general to the specific, i.e., from examining the scope of digital preservation to the strategies and policies in order to argue the importance of using open standards.