Ernest Abadal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4154404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernest Abadal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernest |
| FAMILY NAME | Abadal |
| SIGNATURE | ABADAL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9151-6437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Actitudes de los editores de revistas académicas brasileñas hacia la revisión por pares abierta (open peer review). Una encuesta
Open review is one of the components of open science that scientific journals are incorporating in their editorial processes. In contrast to open access to literature and research data, open review still raises many doubts and concerns among the involved parties (editors, reviewers and authors). This article aims to analyze the perception of editors of Brazilian academic journals on open peer review. To achieve this, a questionnaire was sent to 3…
Archaeological research in Catalonia
When trying to understand the development of a scientific field, analysing its capacity of funding attraction is key; in this sense, the study of archaeological research in Catalonia has often been neglected. To address this gap, in this study we examine the funding landscape of Catalan archaeology research by collecting data from public calls during the period of 2014-2022. Our objective is to provide a thorough descriptive analysis that delinea…
Open access
An overview of the evolution of open access (OA) to scientific publications over the last 20 years is presented. This retrospective look allows us to make two observations that seem to overlap: on the one hand, how close the initial objective seems to be to what initially seemed utopian and, on the other, the unanticipated and solid obstacles that open access has encountered along the way, as well as the unexpected and diverse solutions that are …
Medidas insuficientes para un cambio en la evalua-ción de la investigación en España
En una carta publicada hace seis meses (Delgado-López-Cózar, et al., 2021), pocas semanas después de que la Agencia Española de Evaluación se adhiriera a la declaración dora (dora, 2012), hacíamos un llamamiento a las autoridades científicas españolas para que abandonaran las políticas de evaluación de la investigación basadas en un uso excesivo e indiscriminado de los indicadores bibliométricos —especialmente el Journal Impact Factor (jif)—, par…
Letter
This letter is a call to the Spanish scientific authorities to abandon current research evaluation policies, which are based on an excessive and indiscriminate use of bibliometric indicators for nearly all areas of scientific activity. This narrow evaluation focus is especially applied to assess the individual performance of researchers. To this end, we first describe the contexts in which the journal impact factor (JIF) and other bibliometric in…
Library and Information science in Spain
Universities first taught Library and Information science (LIS) studies in Spain in 1982, reaching a zenith at the end of the 1990s. However, from 2000 onwards, student enrolment began to drop and some programmes closed, producing a crisis in the studies on offer, which is yet to end. The evolution of LIS education in Spanish universities over 40 years is analysed and its future is evaluated based on the opinions of academic leaders from Spanish …
Ciencia abierta
La ciencia abierta constituye una transformación radical en la manera de llevar a cabo la investigación científica. Se trata de un nuevo modelo de hacer ciencia que se basa en el trabajo colaborativo entre personas de la academia y también en la apertura y la transparencia de todas las fases de la investigación (no solo la publicación final, sino también la recogida de datos, el peer review o los criterios de evaluación, entre otros aspectos). La…
Coronavirus mapping in scientific publications
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a global health emergency. Mapping this health emergency in scientific publications demands multiple approaches to obtain a picture as complete as possible. To progress in the knowledge of this pandemic and to control its effects, international collaborations between researchers are essentials, as well as having open and immediate access to scientific publications, what we called "coopetition". Our main objective…
Revistas españolas de Documentación en Web of Science
Scientific journals are a fundamental instrument for the dissemination of research results. Spanish Library and Information Science (LIS) journals have achieved a prominent presence in international databases. By studying the articles published in them, it is possible to determine the thematic evolution of research in LIS, a subject on which few studies are available. The current work presents a bibliometric and thematic analysis of Spanish journ…
Research on Library and Information Science in Spain
Spanish research in Documentation (or Library and Information Science, LIS) rose to prominence in the 1980s, in parallel with the creation of university programmes in LIS, and activity in this field continued to increase significantly until the year 2000. During this period, research in Documentation was oriented towards dissemination rather than innovation, its international impact was low, and it suffered from limited financial and human resour…
Publicación de monografías en acceso abierto por editoriales universitarias españolas
The open access model for publishing monographs by the members of the Spanish Universities Publishers Association (UNE) is analyzed. The study focused on production data from 2015-2017, as well as the positioning and arguments of the editors in relation to the open access movement, publication, related policies, and financing modalities. Data was collected by a questionnaire (with a response rate of 58% of the publishers associated with UNE) and …
Revistas científicas españolas de información y documentación
A study about research in Library and Information Science in Spain is presented. Articles published between 2012 and 2014 have been analyzed in the journals Anales de Documentación, BiD: textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació, Cybermetrics, El profesional de la información (EPI), Revista española de documentación científica (REDC), Revista general de información y documentación (RGID), and Scire. The main subjects studied are: per…
Local e-government Benchlearning
We claim that local e-services benchmarking studies summarized in indexes do little to enhance city managers' and academics' understanding of actual e-government performance, or to improve the e-services offered by cities. We undertook a different benchmarking approach, focused on learning best pra ctices among cities, in late 2008 and early 2009. A benchlearning methodology (BLM) was developed, and a pilot study with 15 European cities was carri…
Recursos educativos abiertos
A bibliographic review, state of the art, history, characteristics, development, projects and research lines of open educational resources (OERs) are presented, as well as their storage in repositories and their use in university educational practice. OERs have had two phases: an initial one concerned about providing access, and the more current one, focused on their incorporation into educational practice
Hemerotecas de prensa digital. Evolución y tendencias
The digital press archives of the Spanish newspapers with the largest digital circulations ara analysed. Evaluative study based on 27 indicators divided into 4 main sections: general features, content, query system, and presentation of results. The analysis was conducted in 2010, and results obtained in 2007 are compared. The best and worst aspects of the digital press archives are pointed out, establishing a newspapers ranking: El mundo, Abc, El…
Modelos de negocio de las editoriales de revistas científicas
A set of parameters to analyze business models of scientific publishers, especially those that offer open access to their content for all or some of their journals, is presented and defined. A definition of the term “business model” that exceeds the old conceptual restriction tied to funding sources is given. This more complete view of the business model requires extending the analysis of funding sources to other economic and financial components…
Benchmarking Del e-Gobierno Local
We present the need to evaluate and compare the development of e-government, and review benchmarking tools and practices. First we discuss the stages of e-government models that are currently in use and discuss the main characteristics and applications. The different e-government benchmarking approaches are analysed, pointing out that e-administration is the more benchmarked e-government area. A more in-depth analysis of the most relevant benchma…
Búsqueda federada en el ecosistema de la e-ciencia
Analysis of the Science Research system in the context of e-science and the federated search, compared with the index-based retrieval systems and harvesting systems. Analysis of several elements of Science Research and a comparative study of search results
Evaluación de hemerotecas de prensa digital
The majority of online newspapers provide access to retrospective information through press archive services, a product of great interest for libraries and other information services. The aim of this study is to identify key indicators for the evaluation of digital press archives and also identify examples of good practices in Spain for each of them. We propose a list of twenty-seven indicators grouped into four main sections (general features, c…
La diversidad cultural en Google y los motores de búsqueda
In various contexts, a concern has been expressed, both implicitly and explicitly, that search engines in general, and Google in particular, may be using some system that obscures certain cultural content or emphasizes the Anglo-Saxon perspective, to the detriment of other cultures and languages. To put it in other terms, we present an exclusively theoretical approach to the idea that intensive use of search engines, which is so common now, repre…
La formación de usuarios en las bibliotecas universitarias españolas
In December 2005 a 42-item survey was sent to all Spanish university libraries to determine the user training each provides and present a thorough and integrated summary. A total of 48 centres responded to detailed questions about the types of training offered, instructional materials, staff involvement, evaluation methods, and future user training needs and approaches. The results indicate that university libraries are immersed in a transition f…
Sindicación de contenidos en un portal de revistas
Se describe la sindicación de contenidos y sus aplicaciones en bibliotecas, centros de información y editoriales, y se destaca como una oportunidad en un momento en que las iniciativas en este terreno son todavía escasas. Se explica cómo la sindicación aplicada a Temaria, un portal de revistas españolas de biblioteconomía y documentación, facilita, entre otras cosas, el seguimiento de un autor o de un tema
Diseño y creación de la base de datos documental del Grupo Godó
Design and development of the Grupo Godó’s document database. The article describes the process by which the corporate database of the mass media group, Grupo Godó, was designed and created. First the author reviews the prior situation that gave rise to the need for the project. Thereafter the characteristics of the database are described in detail: structure, contents, documentary analysis, information flow, and search interfaces. The article co…
Elementos para la evaluación de interfaces de consulta de bases de datos web
Web interfaces to databases aim to establish communication between users seeking information and information retrieval systems and, as such, are one of the most important aspects in the conceptual design of a database. Database interfaces are composed of several pages: search, lists, results, indexes, general information and help pages. The objective of this text is to determine which are the basic elements that should be present on these pages i…
Sistemas y servicios de información digital
El presente texto es la actualización y reescritura en español de Els serveis d’informació electrònica: què són i per a què serveixen, obra publicada en 1997 por Edicions de la UB. Aunque sólo han pasado cuatro años desde su publicación, se han tenido que revisar bastantes aspectos, pues el texto se centra en un ámbito en el que se han producido muchos cambios en poco tiempo. A simple vista, una de las modificaciones más perceptibles se refleja e…
Revistas científicas españolas de información y documentación
A study about research in Library and Information Science in Spain is presented. Articles published between 2012 and 2014 have been analyzed in the journals Anales de Documentación, BiD: textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació, Cybermetrics, El profesional de la información (EPI), Revista española de documentación científica (REDC), Revista general de información y documentación (RGID), and Scire. The main subjects studied are: per…
Local e-government Benchlearning
We claim that local e-services benchmarking studies summarized in indexes do little to enhance city managers' and academics' understanding of actual e-government performance, or to improve the e-services offered by cities. We undertook a different benchmarking approach, focused on learning best pra ctices among cities, in late 2008 and early 2009. A benchlearning methodology (BLM) was developed, and a pilot study with 15 European cities was carri…
Evaluación de hemerotecas de prensa digital
The majority of online newspapers provide access to retrospective information through press archive services, a product of great interest for libraries and other information services. The aim of this study is to identify key indicators for the evaluation of digital press archives and also identify examples of good practices in Spain for each of them. We propose a list of twenty-seven indicators grouped into four main sections (general features, c…
Library and Information science in Spain
Universities first taught Library and Information science (LIS) studies in Spain in 1982, reaching a zenith at the end of the 1990s. However, from 2000 onwards, student enrolment began to drop and some programmes closed, producing a crisis in the studies on offer, which is yet to end. The evolution of LIS education in Spanish universities over 40 years is analysed and its future is evaluated based on the opinions of academic leaders from Spanish …
Research on Library and Information Science in Spain
Spanish research in Documentation (or Library and Information Science, LIS) rose to prominence in the 1980s, in parallel with the creation of university programmes in LIS, and activity in this field continued to increase significantly until the year 2000. During this period, research in Documentation was oriented towards dissemination rather than innovation, its international impact was low, and it suffered from limited financial and human resour…
Publicación de monografías en acceso abierto por editoriales universitarias españolas
The open access model for publishing monographs by the members of the Spanish Universities Publishers Association (UNE) is analyzed. The study focused on production data from 2015-2017, as well as the positioning and arguments of the editors in relation to the open access movement, publication, related policies, and financing modalities. Data was collected by a questionnaire (with a response rate of 58% of the publishers associated with UNE) and …
Recursos educativos abiertos
A bibliographic review, state of the art, history, characteristics, development, projects and research lines of open educational resources (OERs) are presented, as well as their storage in repositories and their use in university educational practice. OERs have had two phases: an initial one concerned about providing access, and the more current one, focused on their incorporation into educational practice
Modelos de negocio de las editoriales de revistas científicas
A set of parameters to analyze business models of scientific publishers, especially those that offer open access to their content for all or some of their journals, is presented and defined. A definition of the term “business model” that exceeds the old conceptual restriction tied to funding sources is given. This more complete view of the business model requires extending the analysis of funding sources to other economic and financial components…
Elementos para la evaluación de interfaces de consulta de bases de datos web
Web interfaces to databases aim to establish communication between users seeking information and information retrieval systems and, as such, are one of the most important aspects in the conceptual design of a database. Database interfaces are composed of several pages: search, lists, results, indexes, general information and help pages. The objective of this text is to determine which are the basic elements that should be present on these pages i…
Acceso a los recursos web gratuitos desde las bibliotecas
Se describen y analizan los sistemas que utilizan actualmente las bibliotecas para facilitar a sus usuarios el acceso a los recursos web gratuitos. En primer lugar se acota el ámbito de estudio a este tipo concreto de recursos y se ponen de relieve los principales problemas que tienen los localizadores para su identificación y recuperación. Los modelos que siguen las bibliotecas para organizar los recursos web son básicamente tres: la elaboración…
Sistemas y servicios de información digital
El presente texto es la actualización y reescritura en español de Els serveis d’informació electrònica: què són i per a què serveixen, obra publicada en 1997 por Edicions de la UB. Aunque sólo han pasado cuatro años desde su publicación, se han tenido que revisar bastantes aspectos, pues el texto se centra en un ámbito en el que se han producido muchos cambios en poco tiempo. A simple vista, una de las modificaciones más perceptibles se refleja e…
Las bases de datos en España a principios del siglo XXI
After a brief bibliographical review of the main texts published over the past decade on the subject of databases in Spain, the author describes the present situation with special reference to aspects concerning production and distribution. The two major changes detected, both a result of the explosive entry of the Web, refer to 1) an increase in the supply of databases produced by small and medium centres and 2) the reorientation of the database…
Diseño y creación de la base de datos documental del Grupo Godó
Design and development of the Grupo Godó’s document database. The article describes the process by which the corporate database of the mass media group, Grupo Godó, was designed and created. First the author reviews the prior situation that gave rise to the need for the project. Thereafter the characteristics of the database are described in detail: structure, contents, documentary analysis, information flow, and search interfaces. The article co…
Elementos para la evaluación de interfaces de consulta de bases de datos web
Web interfaces to databases aim to establish communication between users seeking information and information retrieval systems and, as such, are one of the most important aspects in the conceptual design of a database. Database interfaces are composed of several pages: search, lists, results, indexes, general information and help pages. The objective of this text is to determine which are the basic elements that should be present on these pages i…
Sindicación de contenidos en un portal de revistas
Se describe la sindicación de contenidos y sus aplicaciones en bibliotecas, centros de información y editoriales, y se destaca como una oportunidad en un momento en que las iniciativas en este terreno son todavía escasas. Se explica cómo la sindicación aplicada a Temaria, un portal de revistas españolas de biblioteconomía y documentación, facilita, entre otras cosas, el seguimiento de un autor o de un tema
La formación de usuarios en las bibliotecas universitarias españolas
In December 2005 a 42-item survey was sent to all Spanish university libraries to determine the user training each provides and present a thorough and integrated summary. A total of 48 centres responded to detailed questions about the types of training offered, instructional materials, staff involvement, evaluation methods, and future user training needs and approaches. The results indicate that university libraries are immersed in a transition f…
Evaluación de hemerotecas de prensa digital
The majority of online newspapers provide access to retrospective information through press archive services, a product of great interest for libraries and other information services. The aim of this study is to identify key indicators for the evaluation of digital press archives and also identify examples of good practices in Spain for each of them. We propose a list of twenty-seven indicators grouped into four main sections (general features, c…
La diversidad cultural en Google y los motores de búsqueda
In various contexts, a concern has been expressed, both implicitly and explicitly, that search engines in general, and Google in particular, may be using some system that obscures certain cultural content or emphasizes the Anglo-Saxon perspective, to the detriment of other cultures and languages. To put it in other terms, we present an exclusively theoretical approach to the idea that intensive use of search engines, which is so common now, repre…
Búsqueda federada en el ecosistema de la e-ciencia
Analysis of the Science Research system in the context of e-science and the federated search, compared with the index-based retrieval systems and harvesting systems. Analysis of several elements of Science Research and a comparative study of search results
Benchmarking Del e-Gobierno Local
We present the need to evaluate and compare the development of e-government, and review benchmarking tools and practices. First we discuss the stages of e-government models that are currently in use and discuss the main characteristics and applications. The different e-government benchmarking approaches are analysed, pointing out that e-administration is the more benchmarked e-government area. A more in-depth analysis of the most relevant benchma…
Recursos educativos abiertos
A bibliographic review, state of the art, history, characteristics, development, projects and research lines of open educational resources (OERs) are presented, as well as their storage in repositories and their use in university educational practice. OERs have had two phases: an initial one concerned about providing access, and the more current one, focused on their incorporation into educational practice
Hemerotecas de prensa digital. Evolución y tendencias
The digital press archives of the Spanish newspapers with the largest digital circulations ara analysed. Evaluative study based on 27 indicators divided into 4 main sections: general features, content, query system, and presentation of results. The analysis was conducted in 2010, and results obtained in 2007 are compared. The best and worst aspects of the digital press archives are pointed out, establishing a newspapers ranking: El mundo, Abc, El…
Modelos de negocio de las editoriales de revistas científicas
A set of parameters to analyze business models of scientific publishers, especially those that offer open access to their content for all or some of their journals, is presented and defined. A definition of the term “business model” that exceeds the old conceptual restriction tied to funding sources is given. This more complete view of the business model requires extending the analysis of funding sources to other economic and financial components…
Local e-government Benchlearning
We claim that local e-services benchmarking studies summarized in indexes do little to enhance city managers' and academics' understanding of actual e-government performance, or to improve the e-services offered by cities. We undertook a different benchmarking approach, focused on learning best pra ctices among cities, in late 2008 and early 2009. A benchlearning methodology (BLM) was developed, and a pilot study with 15 European cities was carri…
Revistas científicas españolas de información y documentación
A study about research in Library and Information Science in Spain is presented. Articles published between 2012 and 2014 have been analyzed in the journals Anales de Documentación, BiD: textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació, Cybermetrics, El profesional de la información (EPI), Revista española de documentación científica (REDC), Revista general de información y documentación (RGID), and Scire. The main subjects studied are: per…
Publicación de monografías en acceso abierto por editoriales universitarias españolas
The open access model for publishing monographs by the members of the Spanish Universities Publishers Association (UNE) is analyzed. The study focused on production data from 2015-2017, as well as the positioning and arguments of the editors in relation to the open access movement, publication, related policies, and financing modalities. Data was collected by a questionnaire (with a response rate of 58% of the publishers associated with UNE) and …
Coronavirus mapping in scientific publications
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a global health emergency. Mapping this health emergency in scientific publications demands multiple approaches to obtain a picture as complete as possible. To progress in the knowledge of this pandemic and to control its effects, international collaborations between researchers are essentials, as well as having open and immediate access to scientific publications, what we called "coopetition". Our main objective…
Revistas españolas de Documentación en Web of Science
Scientific journals are a fundamental instrument for the dissemination of research results. Spanish Library and Information Science (LIS) journals have achieved a prominent presence in international databases. By studying the articles published in them, it is possible to determine the thematic evolution of research in LIS, a subject on which few studies are available. The current work presents a bibliometric and thematic analysis of Spanish journ…
Research on Library and Information Science in Spain
Spanish research in Documentation (or Library and Information Science, LIS) rose to prominence in the 1980s, in parallel with the creation of university programmes in LIS, and activity in this field continued to increase significantly until the year 2000. During this period, research in Documentation was oriented towards dissemination rather than innovation, its international impact was low, and it suffered from limited financial and human resour…
Medidas insuficientes para un cambio en la evalua-ción de la investigación en España
En una carta publicada hace seis meses (Delgado-López-Cózar, et al., 2021), pocas semanas después de que la Agencia Española de Evaluación se adhiriera a la declaración dora (dora, 2012), hacíamos un llamamiento a las autoridades científicas españolas para que abandonaran las políticas de evaluación de la investigación basadas en un uso excesivo e indiscriminado de los indicadores bibliométricos —especialmente el Journal Impact Factor (jif)—, par…
Letter
This letter is a call to the Spanish scientific authorities to abandon current research evaluation policies, which are based on an excessive and indiscriminate use of bibliometric indicators for nearly all areas of scientific activity. This narrow evaluation focus is especially applied to assess the individual performance of researchers. To this end, we first describe the contexts in which the journal impact factor (JIF) and other bibliometric in…
Library and Information science in Spain
Universities first taught Library and Information science (LIS) studies in Spain in 1982, reaching a zenith at the end of the 1990s. However, from 2000 onwards, student enrolment began to drop and some programmes closed, producing a crisis in the studies on offer, which is yet to end. The evolution of LIS education in Spanish universities over 40 years is analysed and its future is evaluated based on the opinions of academic leaders from Spanish …
Ciencia abierta
La ciencia abierta constituye una transformación radical en la manera de llevar a cabo la investigación científica. Se trata de un nuevo modelo de hacer ciencia que se basa en el trabajo colaborativo entre personas de la academia y también en la apertura y la transparencia de todas las fases de la investigación (no solo la publicación final, sino también la recogida de datos, el peer review o los criterios de evaluación, entre otros aspectos). La…
Actitudes de los editores de revistas académicas brasileñas hacia la revisión por pares abierta (open peer review). Una encuesta
Open review is one of the components of open science that scientific journals are incorporating in their editorial processes. In contrast to open access to literature and research data, open review still raises many doubts and concerns among the involved parties (editors, reviewers and authors). This article aims to analyze the perception of editors of Brazilian academic journals on open peer review. To achieve this, a questionnaire was sent to 3…
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