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Mariangela Spotti Lopes Fujita; Roberta Cristina Dal’Evedove Tartarotti; Paula Regina Dal´Evedove; Maria Carolina Andrade e Cruz – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Considering the importance of subject retrieval for scientific visibility, and the need to guide authors in self-archiving their papers in institutional repositories of university libraries, this study observed the patterns and strategies used by authors while indexing for keyword assignment. The study examined four categories of analysis:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Authors, Research Libraries, Scientific and Technical Information
Hernandez, Marco A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
PubMed® is an on-line literature database hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Containing over 21 million citations for biomedical literature--both abstracts and full text--in the areas of the life sciences, behavioral studies, chemistry, and bioengineering, PubMed® represents an important tool for researchers. PubMed® searches return…
Descriptors: Databases, Online Searching, Search Strategies, Electronic Publishing
Kovacevic, Aleksandar; Ivanovic, Dragan; Milosavljevic, Branko; Konjovic, Zora; Surla, Dusan – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to develop a system for automatic extraction of metadata from scientific papers in PDF format for the information system for monitoring the scientific research activity of the University of Novi Sad (CRIS UNS). Design/methodology/approach: The system is based on machine learning and performs automatic extraction…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Library Administration, Classification, Information Science
Angus, Emma; Stuart, David; Thelwall, Mike – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2010
Many web 2.0 sites are extremely popular and contain vast amounts of content, but how much of this content is useful in academia? This exploratory paper investigates the potential use of the popular web 2.0 image site Flickr as an academic image resource. The study identified images tagged with any one of 12 subject names derived from recognized…
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Content Analysis, Internet, Scientific and Technical Information

Mahon, Barry; Siegel, Elliot; Molholm, Kurt N.; Anderson, William L.; Elliott, Roger; Hodge, Gail M.; Hunter, Karen; Steenbakkers, Johan F.; Paskin, Norman; Heterick, Bruce; Woodyard, Deborah; Morris, Sally; Smith, Bernard – Information Services & Use, 2002
This special issue is a compilation of documents from the seminar organized by ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information), ICSU (International Council for Science), and CODATA (ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology). Focuses on preserving and archiving digital scientific data and discusses electronic…
Descriptors: Archives, International Programs, Metadata, Scientific and Technical Information

Wusteman, Judith – Library Hi Tech, 2003
Discusses the introduction of the use of XML (Extensible Markup Language) in publishing electronic journals. Topics include standards, including DTDs (Document Type Definition), or document type definitions; aggregator requirements; SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language); benefits of XML for e-journals; XML metadata; the possibility of…
Descriptors: Electronic Journals, Metadata, Publishing Industry, Scholarly Journals

Newby, Gregory B.; Greenberg, Jane; Jones, Paul – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Applies Lotka's Law to metadata on open source software development. Authoring patterns found in software development productivity are found to be comparable to prior studies of Lotka's Law for scientific and scholarly publishing, and offer promise in predicting aggregate behavior of open source developers. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Computer Software Development, Metadata, Productivity

Nelson, Michael L.; Rocker, JoAnne; Harrison, Terry L. – Library Hi Tech, 2003
Details NASA's (National Aeronautics & Space Administration (USA)) involvement in defining and testing the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and experience with adapting existing NASA distributed searching DLs (digital libraries) to use the OAI-PMH and metadata harvesting. Discusses some new digital…
Descriptors: Archives, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries, Harvesting

Silverstein, Joanne – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Explains the digital reference service AskNSDL that was developed for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). Discusses tools used to design the service, including QABuilder software; QuIP (Question Interchange Profile) metadata format standard; GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials) cataloging tool; and the AskERIC question and answer…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Electronic Libraries, Library Services

Nelson, Michael L. – Journal of Government Information, 2001
Discusses the need for preserving and disseminating scientific and technical information through digital libraries and describes buckets, an intelligent construct for publishing that contains data and metadata and methods for accessing them. Explains SODA (Smart Object, Dumb Archive) and discusses experiences using these technologies in NASA and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Government Publications, Information Dissemination

Qin, Jian; Wesley, Kathryn – Information Technology and Libraries, 1998
This survey of 1037 World Wide Web objects on polymer chemistry collected by four search engines (AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, Webcrawler) examined document information and use of meta fields, images, and chemical names. Found that the use of meta fields was not widespread and that knowledge of meta fields in HTML varied among Web object creators.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Chemical Nomenclature, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis

Watts, Carol; And Others – Library Hi Tech, 1995
This series of articles reviews the management of global change data and the role of librarians and information professionals. Topics include the Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS) thesaurus project, ConQuest Software, the Assisted Search for Knowledge (ASK) project, metadata, standards, and Directory Interchange Format and USMARC.…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Computer Software, Federal Government, Information Management
Greenberg, J.; Daniel, E.; Massey, J.; White, P. – 2000
The Plant Information Center (PIC) is a project funded under the Institute of Museum and Library Studies that aims to provide global access to both primary and secondary botanical resources via the World Wide Web. Central to the project is the development and employment of a series of applications that facilitate resource discovery, interactive…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Botany, Computer Uses in Education, Databases