Full Description
Innovative technologies are changing the way research is performed, preserved, and communicated. Managing Scientific Information and Research Data explores how these technologies are used and provides detailed analysis of the approaches and tools developed to manage scientific information and data. Following an introduction, the book is then divided into 15 chapters discussing the changes in scientific communication; new models of publishing and peer review; ethics in scientific communication; preservation of data; discovery tools; discipline-specific practices of researchers for gathering and using scientific information; academic social networks; bibliographic management tools; information literacy and the information needs of students and researchers; the involvement of academic libraries in eScience and the new opportunities it presents to librarians; and interviews with experts in scientific information and publishing.
Contents
Chapter 1. The Road from Chemistry—to Microbiology—to Information Science
Chapter 2. Scientific communication in the digital age
Chapter 3. Ethics in scientific publishing
Chapter 4. An editor's view: Interview with John Fourkas
Chapter 5. Finding and managing scientific information
Chapter 6. Science information literacy and the role of academic librarians
Chapter 7. Information literacy and social media: Interview with Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri
Chapter 8. Coping with "Big Data": eScience
Chapter 9. Managing research data: Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs)
Chapter 10. The complexity of chemical information: Interview with Gary Wiggins
Chapter 11. Measuring academic impact
Chapter 12. From the Science Citation Index to the Journal Impact Factor and Web of Science: Interview with Eugene Garfield
Chapter 13. What it looked like to work at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI): Interview with Bonnie Lawlor
Chapter 14. Measuring attention: Social media and Altmetrics
Chapter 15. Unique identifiers
Chapter 16. Epilogue: Creating an information-literate generation of scientists
