Blanca Rodríguez Bravo
Biographic Data
| ID | 6701507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blanca Rodríguez Bravo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Blanca Rodríguez |
| FAMILY NAME | Bravo |
| SIGNATURE | BRAVO B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de León |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9476-7602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Disrupciones y Herencia de la Pandemia en la Comunicación Científica de los Investigadores Noveles Españoles
Se expone la situación de los Early Career Researchers (ECRs) españoles durante la pandemia atendiendo a los principales cambios originados por el confinamiento en sus hábitos de trabajo y en sus prácticas de comunicación académica. A partir de la información extraída de entrevistas y encuestas se analizan las transformaciones experimentadas en los siguientes ámbitos: la docencia a distancia, la producción investigadora, el sistema de evaluación …
Pious protagonists
This article analyses how movies have been reproducing pejorative and stereotypical storytelling regarding Muslims and Arabs for more than a century, mainly along a narrow-minded dichotomy between “bad” fanatic religious extremists or “good” non-religious secularized Muslims. The article explores alternative storytelling combined with using a model to discuss emotional engagement among moviegoers. The conclusion is that mainstream movie culture i…
Scientific information discovery and access
This review study is based on original research studies investigating how scientific information is discovered and accessed. The study highlights the role of various platforms, including search engines, databases, repositories, web-scale discovery services, academic social media, and illegal platforms like Sci-Hub in this process. The results indicate that while libraries have implemented discovery services and repositories to increase their role…
Use of scientific journals in Spanish universities
We analyse the relationship between downloads of electronic journals included in four big deal bundles subscribed to by public university libraries affiliated to two library consortia in Spain (Castile and León and Galicia) and citations of the same journals by researchers at these universities. Download data on the big deals analysed (Emerald, ScienceDirect, Springer and Wiley) were obtained from COUNTER Journal Reports 1, and citation data were…
Never mind predatory publishers… what about ‘grey’ publishers
The Harbingers project, which studied the working lives and scholarly communication behaviour of early career researchers (ECRs) over 6 years, found evidence of changing attitudes to questionable (grey) publishing. Thus, whilst predatory publishers have come to be treated with equanimity, as a problem easily dealt with, there was growing concern with the high volume of low-grade research being generated, some of which by ‘grey’ open access publis…
Peer review
Explores science and social science early career researchers’ (ECRs) perceptions and experiences of peer review, seeking also to identify their views of any pandemic-associated changes that have taken place. Data are drawn from the Harbingers-2 project, which investigated the impact of the pandemic on scholarly communications. Peer review, one of the activities covered, is singled out as it proved to be the activity of greatest concern to ECRs. F…
Early career researchers and predatory journals during the Covid-19 pandemic. An international analysis
Around 170 early career researchers (ECRs) from 8 countries were interviewed about the whole range of their scholarly communication attitudes/behaviours during pandemic times and this paper analyses what they said about predatory journals in a wide range of scholarly communication contexts. Because of the delicacy of the topic there was just one question exclusively directed at predatory journals, which asked about policies rather than actions, w…
Early career researchers in the pandemic-fashioned ‘new scholarly normality’
After two-years of repeat interviewing around 170 early career science/social science researchers from China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, Spain, UK and US about their work life and scholarly communications in pandemic-times, the Harbingers project is now in possession of a mountain of data on what constitutes a very important academic topic. The purpose of the paper is to share the early highlights of the data, with a focus on the main and …
Early career researchers in the pandemic-fashioned ‘new scholarly normality’
After two-years of talking to around 170 early career science/social science researchers from China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, Spain, UK and US about their work life and scholarly communications during the pandemic, the Harbingers-2 project is in possession of a mountain of verbatim data. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the kinds of comments ECRs are raising, with a focus on those that provide a particular interesting and illumi…
The evolution and revision of big deals
We study the phenomenon of the big deal, a subscription model for scientific journals that emerged at the turn of the millennium aimed especially at library consortia, which were offered the opportunity to exponentially increase their access to scientific information, thus breaking the previous trend of continuous cuts to the collections of the periodicals available in libraries. Its strengths, the expansion of the availability of content, and it…
The impact of the pandemic on early career researchers
In order to take account of the impact of the pandemic on the already changing scholarly communications and work-life of early career researchers (ECRs), the 4-year long Harbingers study was extended for another two years. As a precursor to the study (featuring interviews and a questionnaire survey), currently underway, an analytic review of the pertinent literature was undertaken and its results are presented here. The review focuses on the chal…
Présentation du dossier 2019. Une information scientifique, entre évaluation et médiatisation
notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que so…
How is open access publishing going down with early career researchers? An international, multi-disciplinary study
This study explores early career researchers’ (ECRs) appreciation and utilisation of open access (OA) publishing. The evidence reported here results from a questionnaire-based international survey with 1600 participants, which forms the second leg and final year of a four year long, mixed methods, longitudinal study that sought to discover whether ECRs will be the harbingers of change when it comes to scholarly communications. Proceeding from the…
Descubrir, leer, publicar, compartir y monitorizar el progreso
The scientific communication habits and practices of the new wave of Spanish researchers are analyzed based on the results of an international survey (2019). The results obtained from 100 participants support those previously obtained from interviews conducted between 2016 and 2018 in Spain under the Harbingers Project, and show similarities to and differences from those collected from the mentioned survey in other countries covered by the Projec…
Evolution of the big deals use in the public universities of the Castile and Leon region, Spain
The evolution of the use of electronic scientific journals in the 2007-2018 period by the academic communities of the public universities of Castilla and Leon, members of the Bucle consortium, is studied. Downloads of articles distributed by four broad-spectrum providers are analyzed: Emerald, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and Wiley. Unexpectedly, in spite of the new ways of accessing content, this analysis shows that the number of downloads in pu…
Reputación y comunicación científica
The situation of Spanish early career researchers is investigated based on the results obtained from the international project: Early career researchers: The harbingers of change? It is about knowing what are their habits in scientific communication, what role do the developments of Science 2.0 play in their behaviour and to what extent the indicators of evaluation of their activity are decisive in their attitudes and practices. It is concluded t…
Representação do conceito de mulher na Classificação Decimal Dewey (CDD) a na Classificação Decimal Universal (CDU)
A dinâmica e a emergência de novos conhecimentos exige que se construam novos sistemas de organização de conhecimento e se revejam outros, para a sua localização e acesso. Nesse processo, as estruturas de organização do conhecimento assumem particular relevância como instrumentos eficazes de efetuar esses propósitos. Pela sua longevidade, destacam-se as classificações bibliográficas, entre as quais a Classificação Decimal de Dewey (CDD) e a Class…
Transparencia en la gestión de las bibliotecas públicas del Estado a través de sus sedes web
This article discusses the results of analysing management transparency in 53 Spanish ́s state-run libraries based on a proposed series of indicators drawn from the libraries’ own websites. While the findings detected examples of good practice, information was observed to be scant, particularly in terms of libraries’ lines of action and objectives. The rules and procedures for using the services and contacting with librarians were the types of in…
Descubrimiento de información científica
Access to quality content is key to research and one of the core values that scholars assign to the library. Bibliographic data play a fundamental role in university libraries, which devote abundant resources to obtaining and hosting them for access. This study investigates where and how bibliographic information is discovered, and highlights the role of search engines, databases, repositories, and web-scale discovery services in that process. Th…
Transparency and access to information on research projects in Spanish public universities
In the framework of Spain's Transparency Act of 2013, an analysis is conducted of the information on research projects headed or participated in by Spanish public university teaching staff and funded by public institutions and bodies. The aims are to ascertain whether this information is associated with and published on transparency portals and to determine its typology and characteristics. The analysis covers portals and websites, access points …
Digital transition of teaching learning resources at Spanish universities
The objective of this study is to establish which document types are considered essential for learning at universities and, therefore, are recommended to students. Additionally, an analysis was conducted to determine if electronic resources are a part of the recommended reading lists for the various subjects across the curriculum and what exactly their weight is in relation to other document types. The current syllabi for the 2014-2015 academic y…
Impacto de la contratación de colecciones de revistas electrónicas en la productividad de la Universidad de Vigo
The aim of the study is to test a methodology to investigate the correlation between the models of electronic information usage and the scientific communication preferences reflected in two databases: Web of Science (WoS) from Thomson Reuters, and Scopus from Elsevier. The study is focused on the University of Vigo. Downloads of the articles distributed by ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and Wiley were analyzed at the University of Vigo (Spain) in th…
Encuentro de académicos, estudiantes y profesionales de la información en la Universidad de León
Encuentro de académicos, estudiantes y profesionales de la información en la Universidad de León
Tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de León, los días 17-18 de octubre de 2008. Su objetivo era reflexionar sobre los requisitos que el mercado laboral exige de los graduados en Información y Documentación y determinar las necesidades previstas a corto-medio plazo, así como conocer las lagunas y/o deficiencias de los planes de estudio en vigor.Â
Uso de las revistas-e suministradas por Emerald en bibliotecas universitarias españolas (2002-2005)
Study of the usage of electronic journals distributed by Emerald to universities of Burgos, La Coruña, La Rioja, León, Oviedo, Valladolid and Vigo during the initial years of subscription, 2002-2005. The analysis uses statistics provided by the distributor and is restricted to the study of data concerning downloaded articles. The conclusions outlined in the present work refer fundamentally to the patterns of use within universities of different s…
Transparency and access to information on research projects in Spanish public universities
In the framework of Spain's Transparency Act of 2013, an analysis is conducted of the information on research projects headed or participated in by Spanish public university teaching staff and funded by public institutions and bodies. The aims are to ascertain whether this information is associated with and published on transparency portals and to determine its typology and characteristics. The analysis covers portals and websites, access points …
The impact of the pandemic on early career researchers
In order to take account of the impact of the pandemic on the already changing scholarly communications and work-life of early career researchers (ECRs), the 4-year long Harbingers study was extended for another two years. As a precursor to the study (featuring interviews and a questionnaire survey), currently underway, an analytic review of the pertinent literature was undertaken and its results are presented here. The review focuses on the chal…
Uso de las revistas-e suministradas por Emerald en bibliotecas universitarias españolas (2002-2005)
Study of the usage of electronic journals distributed by Emerald to universities of Burgos, La Coruña, La Rioja, León, Oviedo, Valladolid and Vigo during the initial years of subscription, 2002-2005. The analysis uses statistics provided by the distributor and is restricted to the study of data concerning downloaded articles. The conclusions outlined in the present work refer fundamentally to the patterns of use within universities of different s…
Análisis de la distribuciòn de contenidos electrònicos de ScienceDirect
Análisis cualitativo de ScienceDirect (Elsevier) proveedor multidisciplinar de contenidos electrónicos contratado mayoritariamente por las bibliotecas universitarias españolas
Early career researchers and predatory journals during the Covid-19 pandemic. An international analysis
Around 170 early career researchers (ECRs) from 8 countries were interviewed about the whole range of their scholarly communication attitudes/behaviours during pandemic times and this paper analyses what they said about predatory journals in a wide range of scholarly communication contexts. Because of the delicacy of the topic there was just one question exclusively directed at predatory journals, which asked about policies rather than actions, w…
Descubrir, leer, publicar, compartir y monitorizar el progreso
The scientific communication habits and practices of the new wave of Spanish researchers are analyzed based on the results of an international survey (2019). The results obtained from 100 participants support those previously obtained from interviews conducted between 2016 and 2018 in Spain under the Harbingers Project, and show similarities to and differences from those collected from the mentioned survey in other countries covered by the Projec…
Reputación y comunicación científica
The situation of Spanish early career researchers is investigated based on the results obtained from the international project: Early career researchers: The harbingers of change? It is about knowing what are their habits in scientific communication, what role do the developments of Science 2.0 play in their behaviour and to what extent the indicators of evaluation of their activity are decisive in their attitudes and practices. It is concluded t…
Transparencia en la gestión de las bibliotecas públicas del Estado a través de sus sedes web
This article discusses the results of analysing management transparency in 53 Spanish ́s state-run libraries based on a proposed series of indicators drawn from the libraries’ own websites. While the findings detected examples of good practice, information was observed to be scant, particularly in terms of libraries’ lines of action and objectives. The rules and procedures for using the services and contacting with librarians were the types of in…
Descubrimiento de información científica
Access to quality content is key to research and one of the core values that scholars assign to the library. Bibliographic data play a fundamental role in university libraries, which devote abundant resources to obtaining and hosting them for access. This study investigates where and how bibliographic information is discovered, and highlights the role of search engines, databases, repositories, and web-scale discovery services in that process. Th…
Impacto de la contratación de colecciones de revistas electrónicas en la productividad de la Universidad de Vigo
The aim of the study is to test a methodology to investigate the correlation between the models of electronic information usage and the scientific communication preferences reflected in two databases: Web of Science (WoS) from Thomson Reuters, and Scopus from Elsevier. The study is focused on the University of Vigo. Downloads of the articles distributed by ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and Wiley were analyzed at the University of Vigo (Spain) in th…
Análisis de la distribución de contenidos electrónicos de Wiley InterScience
Análisis cualitativo de Wiley InterScience, servicio de la editorial Wiley & Sons dedicado a la provisión de contenidos científicos electrónicos, referenciales y a texto completo, contratado mayoritariamente por las bibliotecas universitarias españolas con el fin de evaluar su cobertura informativa
Análisis de la distribuciòn de contenidos electrònicos de ScienceDirect
Análisis cualitativo de ScienceDirect (Elsevier) proveedor multidisciplinar de contenidos electrónicos contratado mayoritariamente por las bibliotecas universitarias españolas
Análisis de la distribución de contenidos electrónicos de Wiley InterScience
Análisis cualitativo de Wiley InterScience, servicio de la editorial Wiley & Sons dedicado a la provisión de contenidos científicos electrónicos, referenciales y a texto completo, contratado mayoritariamente por las bibliotecas universitarias españolas con el fin de evaluar su cobertura informativa
Uso de las revistas-e suministradas por Emerald en bibliotecas universitarias españolas (2002-2005)
Study of the usage of electronic journals distributed by Emerald to universities of Burgos, La Coruña, La Rioja, León, Oviedo, Valladolid and Vigo during the initial years of subscription, 2002-2005. The analysis uses statistics provided by the distributor and is restricted to the study of data concerning downloaded articles. The conclusions outlined in the present work refer fundamentally to the patterns of use within universities of different s…
Encuentro de académicos, estudiantes y profesionales de la información en la Universidad de León
Encuentro de académicos, estudiantes y profesionales de la información en la Universidad de León
Tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de León, los días 17-18 de octubre de 2008. Su objetivo era reflexionar sobre los requisitos que el mercado laboral exige de los graduados en Información y Documentación y determinar las necesidades previstas a corto-medio plazo, así como conocer las lagunas y/o deficiencias de los planes de estudio en vigor.Â
Impacto de la contratación de colecciones de revistas electrónicas en la productividad de la Universidad de Vigo
The aim of the study is to test a methodology to investigate the correlation between the models of electronic information usage and the scientific communication preferences reflected in two databases: Web of Science (WoS) from Thomson Reuters, and Scopus from Elsevier. The study is focused on the University of Vigo. Downloads of the articles distributed by ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and Wiley were analyzed at the University of Vigo (Spain) in th…
Digital transition of teaching learning resources at Spanish universities
The objective of this study is to establish which document types are considered essential for learning at universities and, therefore, are recommended to students. Additionally, an analysis was conducted to determine if electronic resources are a part of the recommended reading lists for the various subjects across the curriculum and what exactly their weight is in relation to other document types. The current syllabi for the 2014-2015 academic y…
Transparency and access to information on research projects in Spanish public universities
In the framework of Spain's Transparency Act of 2013, an analysis is conducted of the information on research projects headed or participated in by Spanish public university teaching staff and funded by public institutions and bodies. The aims are to ascertain whether this information is associated with and published on transparency portals and to determine its typology and characteristics. The analysis covers portals and websites, access points …
Descubrimiento de información científica
Access to quality content is key to research and one of the core values that scholars assign to the library. Bibliographic data play a fundamental role in university libraries, which devote abundant resources to obtaining and hosting them for access. This study investigates where and how bibliographic information is discovered, and highlights the role of search engines, databases, repositories, and web-scale discovery services in that process. Th…
Representação do conceito de mulher na Classificação Decimal Dewey (CDD) a na Classificação Decimal Universal (CDU)
A dinâmica e a emergência de novos conhecimentos exige que se construam novos sistemas de organização de conhecimento e se revejam outros, para a sua localização e acesso. Nesse processo, as estruturas de organização do conhecimento assumem particular relevância como instrumentos eficazes de efetuar esses propósitos. Pela sua longevidade, destacam-se as classificações bibliográficas, entre as quais a Classificação Decimal de Dewey (CDD) e a Class…
Transparencia en la gestión de las bibliotecas públicas del Estado a través de sus sedes web
This article discusses the results of analysing management transparency in 53 Spanish ́s state-run libraries based on a proposed series of indicators drawn from the libraries’ own websites. While the findings detected examples of good practice, information was observed to be scant, particularly in terms of libraries’ lines of action and objectives. The rules and procedures for using the services and contacting with librarians were the types of in…
Reputación y comunicación científica
The situation of Spanish early career researchers is investigated based on the results obtained from the international project: Early career researchers: The harbingers of change? It is about knowing what are their habits in scientific communication, what role do the developments of Science 2.0 play in their behaviour and to what extent the indicators of evaluation of their activity are decisive in their attitudes and practices. It is concluded t…
Présentation du dossier 2019. Une information scientifique, entre évaluation et médiatisation
notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que so…
How is open access publishing going down with early career researchers? An international, multi-disciplinary study
This study explores early career researchers’ (ECRs) appreciation and utilisation of open access (OA) publishing. The evidence reported here results from a questionnaire-based international survey with 1600 participants, which forms the second leg and final year of a four year long, mixed methods, longitudinal study that sought to discover whether ECRs will be the harbingers of change when it comes to scholarly communications. Proceeding from the…
Descubrir, leer, publicar, compartir y monitorizar el progreso
The scientific communication habits and practices of the new wave of Spanish researchers are analyzed based on the results of an international survey (2019). The results obtained from 100 participants support those previously obtained from interviews conducted between 2016 and 2018 in Spain under the Harbingers Project, and show similarities to and differences from those collected from the mentioned survey in other countries covered by the Projec…
Evolution of the big deals use in the public universities of the Castile and Leon region, Spain
The evolution of the use of electronic scientific journals in the 2007-2018 period by the academic communities of the public universities of Castilla and Leon, members of the Bucle consortium, is studied. Downloads of articles distributed by four broad-spectrum providers are analyzed: Emerald, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and Wiley. Unexpectedly, in spite of the new ways of accessing content, this analysis shows that the number of downloads in pu…
The evolution and revision of big deals
We study the phenomenon of the big deal, a subscription model for scientific journals that emerged at the turn of the millennium aimed especially at library consortia, which were offered the opportunity to exponentially increase their access to scientific information, thus breaking the previous trend of continuous cuts to the collections of the periodicals available in libraries. Its strengths, the expansion of the availability of content, and it…
The impact of the pandemic on early career researchers
In order to take account of the impact of the pandemic on the already changing scholarly communications and work-life of early career researchers (ECRs), the 4-year long Harbingers study was extended for another two years. As a precursor to the study (featuring interviews and a questionnaire survey), currently underway, an analytic review of the pertinent literature was undertaken and its results are presented here. The review focuses on the chal…
Early career researchers in the pandemic-fashioned ‘new scholarly normality’
After two-years of repeat interviewing around 170 early career science/social science researchers from China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, Spain, UK and US about their work life and scholarly communications in pandemic-times, the Harbingers project is now in possession of a mountain of data on what constitutes a very important academic topic. The purpose of the paper is to share the early highlights of the data, with a focus on the main and …
Early career researchers in the pandemic-fashioned ‘new scholarly normality’
After two-years of talking to around 170 early career science/social science researchers from China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, Spain, UK and US about their work life and scholarly communications during the pandemic, the Harbingers-2 project is in possession of a mountain of verbatim data. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the kinds of comments ECRs are raising, with a focus on those that provide a particular interesting and illumi…
Pious protagonists
This article analyses how movies have been reproducing pejorative and stereotypical storytelling regarding Muslims and Arabs for more than a century, mainly along a narrow-minded dichotomy between “bad” fanatic religious extremists or “good” non-religious secularized Muslims. The article explores alternative storytelling combined with using a model to discuss emotional engagement among moviegoers. The conclusion is that mainstream movie culture i…
Scientific information discovery and access
This review study is based on original research studies investigating how scientific information is discovered and accessed. The study highlights the role of various platforms, including search engines, databases, repositories, web-scale discovery services, academic social media, and illegal platforms like Sci-Hub in this process. The results indicate that while libraries have implemented discovery services and repositories to increase their role…
Use of scientific journals in Spanish universities
We analyse the relationship between downloads of electronic journals included in four big deal bundles subscribed to by public university libraries affiliated to two library consortia in Spain (Castile and León and Galicia) and citations of the same journals by researchers at these universities. Download data on the big deals analysed (Emerald, ScienceDirect, Springer and Wiley) were obtained from COUNTER Journal Reports 1, and citation data were…
Never mind predatory publishers… what about ‘grey’ publishers
The Harbingers project, which studied the working lives and scholarly communication behaviour of early career researchers (ECRs) over 6 years, found evidence of changing attitudes to questionable (grey) publishing. Thus, whilst predatory publishers have come to be treated with equanimity, as a problem easily dealt with, there was growing concern with the high volume of low-grade research being generated, some of which by ‘grey’ open access publis…
Peer review
Explores science and social science early career researchers’ (ECRs) perceptions and experiences of peer review, seeking also to identify their views of any pandemic-associated changes that have taken place. Data are drawn from the Harbingers-2 project, which investigated the impact of the pandemic on scholarly communications. Peer review, one of the activities covered, is singled out as it proved to be the activity of greatest concern to ECRs. F…
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