UID:
almahu_9949697740802882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 136 pages) :
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illustrations (some color).
ISBN:
0-12-811222-0
Series Statement:
Chandos Information Professional Series
Content:
"The Role of Information Professionals in the Knowledge Economy: Skills, Profile, and a Model for Supporting Scientific Production and Communication presents tools, products, and resources that are necessary for institutions to acquire and develop a scientific culture; a key area that defines their international competitiveness. It redefines the role and skills of information professionals that institutions need to support and manage their scientific production and communication through a model provided. This book is ideal for information professionals and students who are interested in scholarly communication as avenues of endeavor. Researchers, professors, and decision makers involved in knowledge generation processes will also find useful insights to advance in this area. Key points: Promotes the idea that an information professional is the right person to support scientific production and communication; Provides guidance on how to develop a scientific culture in an institution; Identifies the competencies needed by information professionals with a stake in scientific production and communication; Redefines the profile of such information professionals and identifies this new skillset as a job opportunity." -- Back cover.
Note:
Includes index.
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Scientific production in the knowledge economy and its influence on the competitiveness of universities and research institutions -- Conceptualization of scientific productivity, production, dissemination, and communication -- The new profile of information professionals as scientific production and communication managers : identification of competences -- An academic model to support scientific production and communication.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-811223-9
Language:
English
