Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'HA. Periodicals, Newspapers'

The advent of the internet has revolutionized the way scientists communicate their research results increasing the power to disseminate and to access scientific production. This fact was responsible to restructure the scientific information flow that has incorporated its own characteristics from the digital culture. The Open Archives Initiative constituted the infrastructure that supports this restructuring. It was also responsible for the institutionalization of a model called e-prints repositories (ER), that stores, disseminates and promotes scientific production, published or not, in a place managed by the scientific community itself, that allows the inclusion of their public commmentaries about contents of that production. The hypothesis of this work suggests that the adherence to this model by the scientific communities depends on the level of understanding and acceptance, of the profile of the field interfering with the adoption of the innovation and its legitimation. Through a case study of Brazilian researchers from the Communication Sciences field it had been carried out the electronic focus group technique among 18 researchers, whose profile was formed by researches leaders registered at CNPq with backgroung in the field. The exploratory study identified many questions present in the dynamics of scientific communication of the field leading to proof of the hypothesis. From among results, distinguish low perception of that this model optimized the scientific information flow and strong tendency to not accept the model becauce of field profile. In conclusion, the level of adherence to the model is inserted in a medium to low scale.

La tesis presenta un modelo o sistema para el análisis y la evaluación de las hemerotecas de la prensa digital, que se aplica a una muestra de diarios españoles entre 2007 y 2010 y se enmarca en una propuesta de clasificación de fuentes de información sobre prensa digital. La clasificación de las principales fuentes de información sobre prensa digital sigue como criterio fundamental para establecer la tipología de productos la función principal que realizan para el usuario, lo que lleva a establecer cuatro grandes ámbitos: acceso a cabeceras de prensa, búsqueda de información, seguimiento de información y agregación de contenidos. De cada una de estas clases, se describen y analizan distintas subtipologías: directorios, hemerotecas históricas, hemerotecas digitales de medios, bases de datos de prensa, seguimiento de prensa, seguimiento online, seguimiento en redes sociales, agregadores manuales, agregadores automatizados y agregadores sociales. Se muestran para cada tipología ejemplos significativos de las áreas lingüísticas inglesa y española. El sistema de análisis de hemerotecas digitales parte de una amplia revisión bibliográfica de trabajos sobre evaluación de recursos web y bases de datos web, y de trabajos sobre análisis y evaluación de hemerotecas de diarios digitales. Es un procedimiento evaluativo de tipo heurístico basado en 27 indicadores articulados en cuatro grandes secciones: aspectos generales, contenidos, sistema de consulta y presentación de resultados. Se expone para cada indicador: definición, explicación y uso de la puntuación. Los indicadores son: A.1. Denominación A.2. Ubicación del acceso a la hemeroteca A.3. Información sobre la hemeroteca A.4. Coste A.5. Productos documentales B.1. Colecciones disponibles B.2. Formatos disponibles B.3. Cobertura temporal C.1. Tipos de consulta por interrogación (palabras clave) C.2. Lenguaje de consulta C.3. Visualización de los índices C.4. Ajuste de relevancia C.5. Acotación temporal C.6. Acotación en colecciones C.7. Acotación en formatos C.8. Acotación por campos del registro C.9. Reutilización de búsquedas C.10. Consulta de tesauros u otros vocabularios controlados C.11. Acceso por navegación cronológica (browsing) C.12. Ayudas D.1. Gestión de las listas de resultados D.2. Campos visualizados del registro del documento D.3. Agrupación de resultados por categorías D.4. Identificación de los términos de búsqueda en el documento D.5. Formatos de visualización de un mismo documento. D.6. Gestión de los documentos recuperados D.7. Presentación de documentos relacionados Con este modelo, se analizan las hemerotecas digitales de los diarios españoles de mayor audiencia y difusión. Es un estudio longitudinal efectuado entre los años 2007 y 2010. Se presentan con detalle los resultados del análisis realizado en 2010, y se relacionan con los obtenidos anteriormente en 2007. Se señalan los aspectos mejores y peores de las hemerotecas de prensa digital, se establece un ranking de diarios en el que ocupan las primeras posiciones El mundo, Abc, El país y La vanguardia, y se destacan finalmente cinco grandes tendencias observadas: -ampliación del fondo temporal en línea; -hemerotecas gratuitas versus hemerotecas de pago; -simplificación (y empobrecimiento) de la búsqueda; -filtros en la presentación de resultados; -productos documentales en la sección Hemeroteca.
This study presents a system for the analysis and evaluation of digital press archives, analyses the digital press archives of a sample of Spanish newspapers and presents a proposal to classify and analyze the main sources that provide access to online press. The system is a kind of heuristic evaluation procedure based on 27 indicators articulated in four main sections: general features, contents, the query system, and presentation of results. For each indicator is explained: definition, explanation and use of punctuation. With this method, it analyses the digital press archives of the Spanish newspapers with the largest digital circulations between 2007 and 2010. The study points out the best and worst aspects of the digital press archives, establishing a ranking of newspapers in which El Mundo, Abc, El País and La Vanguardia occupy the top positions, and finally shows five major trends: extension of the temporary fund online, free archives versus payment archives, simplification (and depletion) of the query, filters in the presentation of results and documentary products in the archive section.

El objetivo de esta investigación es estudiar la curación de contenidos en el ámbito del periodismo, desarrollar un sistema de análisis para evaluar su uso y analizar su implementación en medios de comunicación digitales. En relación con ello: a) se propone una definición del concepto de curación de contenidos en periodismo; b) se estudia el alcance del concepto de curación periodística, y se relaciona con el concepto cercano de documentación periodística; c) se sitúa la investigación sobre curación periodística en el contexto más general de la investigación sobre curación; d) se presenta por primera vez en la literatura un sistema para la evaluación de la curación en medios de comunicación digitales; e) se prueba y valida esta nueva herramienta de evaluación con una muestra de productos periodísticos, en concreto newsletters, en el primer estudio sistemático realizado sobre curación en medios de un país; f) se establecen las características principales de los productos periodísticos basados en curación; y g) se identifican buenas prácticas de curación periodística.
This research’s goal is to study content curation in the field of journalism, develop an analysis system to evaluate its use and analyse its implementation in digital media. In relation to this: a) a definition of the concept of content curation in journalism is proposed; b) the scope of the concept of journalistic curation is studied, and it is related to the close concept of journalistic documentation; c) research on journalistic curation is situated in the more general context of research on curation; d) a system for evaluating curation in digital media is presented for the first time in the literature; e) this new evaluation tool is tested and validated with a sample of journalistic products, specifically newsletters, in the first systematic study carried out on curation in the media of a country; f) the main characteristics of journalistic products based on curation are established; and g) good journalistic curation practices are identified.

The present research, of exploratory nature, aims at verifying whether the Qualis base, once implemented, has led to the use of the journals classified herein, especially the ones of A concept, published nationwide. For that aim, we have defined, as the object of study, Qualis journals in Psychology, and as the context, the “Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas” (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas Psychology Post-Graduation Program). The universe we have researched composed of a sample of thesis and dissertations claimed between 1997-2002 and a population of mastering and doctorate people enrolled in the Program. The methodological procedures employed herein are the citation analysis and questionnaire application. The analysis of results has shown that a maximum grade does not necessarily lead to effective use. Therefore, it is concluded that consensus (pair evaluation) on which the base is laid does not reflect on the consensus of the segments (professors and alumni) at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas Psychology Post-Graduation Program, in the aforementioned period. The present investigation contributes to reflexion about the methodology used for qualifying journals as scientific assessment instrument for post-graduation programs, as well as it opens understanding possibilities to Qualis base from its use; that is necessarily integrated in the referencial knowledge set which is present in post-graduation formation.

In this thesis economical aspects of scientific journals (print and e-journals) are reflected. At first, the history, the definition and the functions of scientific journals in the academic context are examined. The development of e-journals is traced and advantages and disadvantages are presented. Next, some considerations to economical characteristics of information goods are presented and the interactions of the authors, publishers, readers and libraries are set out. The supply side and the demand side of the scientific journals market are exposed. Special consideration is given to types of suppliers, market volume, costs of print and e-journals and various aspects of the behavior of libraries and individual subscriptions. Following this, it is exposed if the market of scientific journals is a monopoly. After that, prices and the rise of prices are examined and marketing strategies of the publishers (price and product differentiation, bundling and pay-per-view models) are discussed. Also, the profitability of some listed companies which publish scientific journals is highlighted. An alternative model which would result in an open access to e-journals is presented and discussed. Finally, the results of this thesis are summarized and some conclusions for libraries are drawn.

Access to scientific and scholarly information in academic libraries is made available trough journal content. The technological evolution provides libraries with different forms of access and various types of supports to periodicals. Despite the importance of electronic journals, printed journals remain an important way of making available scientific information. The search and retrieval of information in periodicals is the most usual way to have access to the contents of articles in the academic world. The best tools to achieve it are the international indexes and abstracts databases. However, the content of Portuguese journals are seldom referenced in international search tools. We intend to characterize the actual situation and to suggest a feasible solution to provide access to Portuguese-language articles in academic libraries. The purpose of our dissertation is to examine current solutions to improve content accessibility to Portuguese journals and make a proposal to achieve it. In this work we present a survey of models of infrastructure and technologies to bibliographic data share. It describes three technical solutions to share bibliographic data, representing the models referenced above. We present national and international projects developed in this area. Simultaneously, we propose a Portuguese journal analytic cooperative cataloguing solution, based on a local trial.

Collection development in university libraries is affected by a number of factors. The increase in the amount of information, technological developments, price hikes and electronic publishing are among them. In addition, university libraries are faced with the growth of collections and diversity of services.Iranian Institute of Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) Library (Ketabhaneye Merkeze Tehsiyate Tekmili der Olume Paye) is faced with a serious budget and space problem. The number of journals that the Library subscribes to decreases each year due to ever-increasing journal subscription prices and the Library’s constant budget shortages. Binding, cataloging, storage of and access to those journals constitutes the most important problem of the Library.The objective of this study is to answer the following conjecture: If IASBS Library subscribed to the electronic versions of journals instead of their printed copies, its budget and space problems would be eased. The hypothesis is that “If IASBS Library subscribed to the electronic versions of journals in the year 2002, its total expenditures would be decreased.” To prove this hypothesis, we compared various expenditure(subscriptions, mailing, control, binding and archiving) of both printed and electronic versions of journals that IASBS Library subscribed to in 2002.Findings obtained proved our hypothesis. If IASBS Library subscribed to the electronic versions of journals instead of their printed equivalents, the Library would have decreased its total expenditures approximately $57.000. This figure translates to almost 13% economy in the Library’s overall material acquisition budget. In addition, instead of 155 journals, IASBS Library would have obtained access to a total of 2260 electronic journal by paying less.In conclusion, IASBS Library should provide access to electronic versions of journals as soon as possible in order to solve its budget and space problems.

According to the Media-Analyse 2005, the Kronen Zeitung and Der Standard are the two most popular newspapers in Austria, each of them in its own sphere. The Standard is based on the model of the New York Times and intends to be a newspaper with style and quality whereas the Kronen Zeitung is known as the newspaper for the majority. The popular opinion in Austria leads to the hypothesis that the Standard uses a more elaborate language than the Kronen Zeitung. This study investigates the differences between the two daily newspapers Kronen Zeitung and Der Standard, focusing on the language used in a period from January 9th to January 22nd 2006. The aim of this analysis is to point out the differences between the linguistic usages of the two newspapers. The thesis is organised in a theoretical and an empirical part, whereby the first part consists of a literature based brief description of the two newspapers and an overview of content analysis in general. Furthermore it contains a short introduction in the topic of linguistic differences. The empirical part is an investigation to outline the differences between the newspapers, therefore a content analysis has been carried out. By means of ten categories, all articles published in the assigned period of time, are examined in terms of their linguistic features and quality. The findings of the content analysis verify the hypothesis as they indicate that the language used in the newspaper Der Standard is indeed on a higher level than the one used in the Kronen Zeitung. But the results of the assay also reveal that the differences in many determined fields are not as big as expected and that the language in the Kronen Zeitung is actually better than its reputation.

The libraries that make up the Consorcio de Digitalización de Prensa Vasca keep a digitization project of contemporary newspapers related to Basque culture. Both characteristics and contents of the resulting digital collection are described. It is defended the need to undertake a project of digital preservation in the light of guidelines established by international experts and institutions. The paper also describes different technological choices in order to establish a storage infrastructure capable of facing the challenges posed by digital preservation. Finally, different choices are suggested to be implemented by the Consorcio at a lower cost and with a higher guarantee of success.

The final work of degree in Library and Documentation aims to determine the degree of standardization in terms of formal presentation that are observed in scientific journals edited by the National University of Cordoba in the period 2000-2007. It shows an overview of the work and institutional efforts made in the evaluation of periodical publications at the international, regional, country level, and in Argentina, especially naming the activities of Caicyt in support of the edition of scientific journals. The situation of the magazines of the National University of Córdoba (UNC) from a paper presented by the Center for Advanced Studies (CEA) of the UNC in which they were evaluated according to the criteria of Latindex. The ISO presentation standards of publications for the international level, and analyze the equivalents IRAM of Argentina and UNE of Spain in the national level. University journals and Caicyt catalogs 158 paper journals published by the university are collected from which they are chosen to evaluate the ones that are still published, which are scientific and have published at least 3 issues between the years 2000 and 2007. Indexes are made with all the magazines identified, which are presented as annexes to this study. From the analysis of the UNE and IRAM standards 18 indicators are grouped into 4 parameters, and are described according to the norms. The tool is built up of 75 indexes to collect the information according to the indicators and applies to 2 fascicles of each one of the 30 magazines surveyed. The results obtained indicate that the journals of the UNC have a low degree of normalization, the less normalized aspects being the presence of indexes and cumulative summaries, the existence of a volume cover, the inclusion of the dates of receipt and acceptance of the articles, and the division of the publication into volumes with independent fascicles for each volume, among others. 5 journals exceed 50% of normalization. It is recommended that a policy be editorial by the authorities and the support or approach of the professionals of the information to the publishers of the magazines of the UNC.

The dissertation is devoted to the elaboration of the theoretic-methodical foundation of forming the suitable libraries’ collections supplying system in the times of informatization society. The evolution of the scientific views concerning the problem of the supplying the libraries’ collections is investigated, and the theoretical elaboration level is revealed. The term system of the researching sphere is improved, the definitions of its basic terms are offered. Main periods of the beginning and the development of the components of the supplying libraries’ collections system are described, conformities to natural laws of development and factors that define the modern condition of functioning of the libraries’ collections supplying system are found out. Foreign experience of the libraries’ collections supplying is generalized. Ways of improving the Ukrainian libraries’ supplying system in the times of forming the national electronic library are scientifically grounded. The theoretical model of Ukrainian libraries’ supplying system is elaborated.

The investigation's main subject is based on the collection of periodicals, and other resources such as reference materials and databases which belong to Hemeroteca de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral. These are elements that provide a service of legal reference to which the community of users and investigators have a free access. The work was established upon a normative theoretical framework, international guidelines applied to academic and research libraries, the Conspectus model, circulation and consultation data and opinions from experts based on other works. At local level the contribution of the Methodological Guide of Evaluations of Collections made by Universidad Nacional de La Plata is taken into account. All that was mentioned before allows us to make an analysis of this collection in particular and consequently, to lay foundations on future actions to take part concerning this thematic.

This undergraduate degree thesis (The Fanzines as a Bibliographic Resource) presents definitions, features and profiles of frequent contents of marginated and independent periodicals known as fanzines. Along the analysis of this work, it is argued in favour to consider these information sources as bibliographic resources up to the same level of the well known periodicals of the library scene.

This is about the importance of open access journals to the advancement of science and technology in this country. It presents definition, purpose and evolution of Brazilian scientific journals. It demonstrates through literature review how investments applied in human resources and research (input) and in scientific journals (output) over the years were important for the strengthening of Brazilian scientific journals. It shows the evolution of Brazilian scientific journal in the international arena by means of quantitative data collected in the Qualis system and citation indexes of ISI in a sample of 31 journals. It displays the increased number of Brazilian scientific journals indexed in the ISI and the gradual evolution of the impact factor. It discusses the need to publish the results of research in open access journals as a way to speed the process of disseminating information, increasing the visibility of scientific production and return on public investment for society.

The study of scientific production in academic journals allows us get to know the behavior patterns from the production and the use of information from researchers, in this particular case of the Revista de Gastroenterología Peruana in the period from 1995 to 2005.

Electronic journals are the most efficient scholar communication tools for academicians searching, keeping up with current affairs and publication of their works. Scientific journals are published in the 17th century for the first time. It is seen that the publishing of electronic journals is formed with technological developments in the 1990’s. Projects of many universities and professional groups begin to attribute publising of electronic journals. With the effect of open access electronic publishing begins to gain a different dimension These developments cause many researches on electronic journals. However, studies upon the features of electronic journals and usage causes affecting them are few. It is seen that especially with the development of the electronic journal publishing, studies on users in this subject began to increase. But still, there is not a study which aims to use the sources of different academicians from different disciplines. So our research aims to show the place of electronic journals in communication, the development of these sources up untill today and the effects of differences among disciplines on use of electronic journals. Furthermore, the findings which we obtain are compared with similar studies in literature. In this respect, the hypothesis of our research is as follows: “The academicians use of e-journals varies depending on -the discipline they are associated with, -the knowledge and experiments of the users and -the local factors.” In our research, literature survey, survey and interview techniques have been used. While the capacity of universe is 1428 academicians, sampling is made up of 249 persons. Sampling is divided into four disciplines which are science , engineering, social science and humanities. As a result of our study, it is seen that there are similarities and differences in the features of Ankara University academicians usage of electronic journals. It is found that engineers and sciencists use e-journals more excessively when compared to other disciplines. The human scientists are observed to be the group of academicians who use e-journals least. User preference in scientific journals, their attitutes towards the weak and strong sides of journals, their knowledge about open access, the states of benefiting from open access sources and the things which they pay attention while publishing an article change according to the discipline which they are associated with.

This study presents a system for the analysis and evaluation of digital press archives, analyses the digital press archives of a sample of Spanish newspapers and presents a proposal to classify and analyze the main sources that provide access to online press. The system is a kind of heuristic evaluation procedure based on 27 indicators articulated in four main sections: general features, contents, the query system, and presentation of results. For each indicator is explained: definition, explanation and use of punctuation. With this method, it analyses the digital press archives of the Spanish newspapers with the largest digital circulations between 2007 and 2010. The study points out the best and worst aspects of the digital press archives, establishing a ranking of newspapers in which El Mundo, Abc, El País and La Vanguardia occupy the top positions, and finally shows five major trends: extension of the temporary fund online, free archives versus payment archives, simplification (and depletion) of the query, filters in the presentation of results and documentary products in the archive section.

The current research conducted in traditional and digital media in Latin America, evidence that Ecuador, lacks content in terms of the application of the thematic agendas of the media and public opinion that is being generated in the country. In this sense, the present investigation is framed in the analysis of the criteria used by the digital newspaper ecuadorenvivo.com for the selection of the information it disseminates. Information was collected during 5 weeks, using the method of content analysis, applied in fact sheets that collect the most relevant points regarding the journalistic content of the news publications of a medium, in this specific case of digital type. For the analysis, the following variables were considered: origin of the information, nature of the sources and the protagonists, identification of the protagonists of the information, structure of the information and format of the news, treatment of the contents, focus, informational imbalances and the values that are transmitted. In the results of this investigation, the successes and shortcomings of the study medium are reflected, for a later analysis regarding the journalistic practice in Ecuador.

This research’s goal is to study content curation in the field of journalism, develop an analysis system to evaluate its use and analyse its implementation in digital media. In relation to this: a) a definition of the concept of content curation in journalism is proposed; b) the scope of the concept of journalistic curation is studied, and it is related to the close concept of journalistic documentation; c) research on journalistic curation is situated in the more general context of research on curation; d) a system for evaluating curation in digital media is presented for the first time in the literature; e) this new evaluation tool is tested and validated with a sample of journalistic products, specifically newsletters, in the first systematic study carried out on curation in the media of a country; f) the main characteristics of journalistic products based on curation are established; and g) good journalistic curation practices are identified.

Public procurement in Spain accounts for about 20% of the country's Gross Domestic Product. The large amounts of money that are moving in this area and the growing social concern about knowing what the public money is invested forces administrations to adopt measures on transparency and openness of public data. It is in this profile, in which this work is framed, on the one hand, does the public know how transparent the public administration is, and on the other hand, the administration knows what the optimal characteristics for each contract? The obstacles to comparing this type of information are based on the lack of details of the contracting portals, the different categorizations, the normative plurality and, in short, the difficulty of access to information. The information of the tenders is mostly published in the different portals of contracting of the Autonomous Communities, in addition to the national portal of public sector contracts. Even so, there remains a great difficulty of access and understanding. These evidences demonstrate that the development of this project will be relevant for the target audience. In a bid for the transparency of public administrations, the re-use of bidding data and public sector contracts and the improvement of access to information by citizens, proposes the creation of a technological tool capable of making comparisons between contracts and find the existing relationships. An advance of this project was presented to "Challenges Contribute 2017: The value of the data for the Administration" being selected as one of the ten finalists in Phase I of the 45 projects presented. Phase II of the Challenge will be held in the month of October of this same year.