Driving Science Information Discovery in the Digital Age (Chandos Information Professional Series) - Softcover

Baykoucheva, Svetla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128237236 ISBN 13: 9780128237236

Publisher: Chandos Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

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).

• Presents an overview of the current scientific publishing landscape
• Shows how users can search for scientific information more efficiently
• Critically analyses the metrics used to measure the quality of journals and the impact of research
• Looks at the discovery of scientific information from the perspectives of information seekers, publishers, and authors
• Delves into the practices used by specialized indexing services and search engines to process scientific information and make it discoverable
• Recommends strategies that authors could use to promote their research

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

The development of new information technologies has transformed the creation, sharing, dissemination, and discoverability of scientific information. New forms of scientific publishing and media have shifted the ways in which scientific communication takes place, creating a sea change in the flow of scientific information. There is now intense competition to make scientific information more visible and discoverable, and great pressure on researchers to increase the impact of research. Specialized indexing services and search engines, for example, attempt to intuit what users are looking for and, using artificial intelligence and machine learning, these agents are anticipating the information needs of the user. Driving Scientific Information Discovery in the Digital Age examines the complex mechanisms involved in scientific information discovery. The book consists in three intertwined threads: discovering, managing and using scientific information; making scientific information discoverable; and enhancing discoverability. This title gives readers insight into the mechanisms involved in scientific information discovery. The book shows in a clear way how scientific information is processed and how researchers and information specialists can make research more visible and discoverable, and thereby increase research impact.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128237236
• ISBN 13: 9780128237236
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176