Managing Scientific Information and Research Data

Innovative technologies are changing the way research is performed, preserved, and communicated. Managing Scientific Information and Research Data explores how these technologies are used and provides detailed analysis of the approaches and tools developed to manage scientific information and data. Following an introduction, the book is then divided into 15 chapters discussing the changes in scientific communication; new models of publishing and peer review; ethics in scientific communication; preservation of data; discovery tools; discipline-specific practices of researchers for gathering and using scientific information; academic social networks; bibliographic management tools; information literacy and the information needs of students and researchers; the involvement of academic libraries in eScience and the new opportunities it presents to librarians; and interviews with experts in scientific information and publishing.

Promotes innovative technologies for creating, sharing and managing scientific contentPresents new models of scientific publishing, peer review, and dissemination of informationServes as a practical guide for researchers, students, and librarians on how to discover, filter, and manage scientific informationAdvocates for the adoption of unique author identifiers such as ORCID and ResearcherIDLooks into new tools that make scientific information easy to discover and manageShows what eScience is and why it is becoming a priority for academic librariesDemonstrates how Electronic Laboratory Notebooks can be used to record, store, share, and manage research dataShows how social media and the new area of Altmetrics increase researchers’ visibility and measure attention to their researchDirects to sources for datasetsProvides directions on choosing and using bibliographic management toolsCritically examines the metrics used to evaluate research impactAids strategic thinking and informs decision making

• Chapter 1. The Road from Chemistry—to Microbiology—to Information Science
• Chapter 2. Scientific communication in the digital age
• Chapter 3. Ethics in scientific publishing
• Chapter 4. An editor’s view: Interview with John Fourkas
• Chapter 5. Finding and managing scientific information
• Chapter 6. Science information literacy and the role of academic librarians
• Chapter 7. Information literacy and social media: Interview with Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri
• Chapter 8. Coping with "Big Data": eScience
• Chapter 9. Managing research data: Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs)
• Chapter 10. The complexity of chemical information: Interview with Gary Wiggins
• Chapter 11. Measuring academic impact
• Chapter 12. From the Science Citation Index to the Journal Impact Factor and Web of Science: Interview with Eugene Garfield
• Chapter 13. What it looked like to work at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI): Interview with Bonnie Lawlor
• Chapter 14. Measuring attention: Social media and Altmetrics
• Chapter 15. Unique identifiers
• Chapter 16. Epilogue: Creating an information-literate generation of scientists