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- B-on’s evolution and its contribution to the development of Portuguese sciencePublication . Costa, Teresa; Lopes, Carlos; Vaz, FranciscoIn recent years several initiatives have taken place to promote universal access to the Information and Knowledge Society. It was in this context that in 2004 the Online Knowledge Library (bon) was launched in Portugal. With it, it became easier to get access to full text international scientific publications. This study aims to present and analyze some bibliometric indicators of the Portuguese scientific output seeking to evaluate its link it with bon. It was analyzed the usage of b-on resources by the public universities members of the consortium from 2004 to 2010, and we chose as sample the five universities with more downloads per FTE (full time equivalent).In addition to the usage data of the consortium, we used the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus from which we identified the articles indexed with Portuguese affiliation and by the five Portuguese universities between 2000- 2010. In WoS we found 79.192 articles indexed with at least one Portuguese author, published in the years under analysis, 40.413 have affiliation at least in one of the five universities considered in this study (51%). In Scopus the number of articles is similar, 62.634 articles for Portugal from which 33.417 have affiliation in at least one of the five universities (54%).We identified the research areas with the largest number of articles. The national scientific production concerning the scientific areas is relatively diverse in accordance with both databases: Chemistry, Physics Engineering, Materials Sciences and Biochemistry Molecular Biology are the subject areas with more indexed articles in WoS; Medicine, Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and Chemistry in Scopus . The same article can have multiple authors, with different institutional affiliations from different nationalities. The Portuguese international co-authorship is growing in the recent years, mainly with the USA, Spain and United Kingdom. We conclude that the availability and access to electronic resources contributes to the increased of the scientific productivity of the universities and that the study and analysis of its use and output are essential.
- Electronic journals : Their use and impact in the portuguese universities outputPublication . Costa, Teresa; Lopes, Carlos; Vaz, FranciscoThe availability of electronic journals in the Portuguese academic community improved in a spectacular way since the creation of the national university consortium, Online Knowledge Library (b-on), in 2004. The work presented here is the outcome of a line of research begun in 2011 which aims to investigate the supply and use of electronic journals incorporated into university libraries through b-on. This study aims to present and analyse some of the statistical and bibliometric indicators of the Portuguese scientific consumption and output seeking to evaluate its connection with b-on. It was analysed the usage of b-on resources by the public universities members of the consortium, from 2004 to 2010.In addition to the usage data of the consortium, we used the Web of Science (WoS) from which we identified the articles indexed by five Portuguese universities between 2000-2010.
- O impacto da Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online (b-on) no acesso à informação e produção científica nacional : Resultados de um inquéritoPublication . Costa, Teresa; Lopes, Carlos; Vaz, FranciscoO surgimento das novas tecnologias e da Internet contribuiu para o surgimento na Europa de consórcios e redes de bibliotecas académicas. Os profissionais destas bibliotecas perceberam a necessidade de trabalharem em cooperação, de uma forma estruturada, através da criação de infraestruturas que permitissem a cooperação e a partilha de recursos. É, pois, neste contexto que surgiu, a Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online, b-on, que permite, desde 2004, o acesso a milhares de publicações eletrónicas de editoras de referência internacional nas principais áreas de investigação científica e académica e que constitui um instrumento essencial de acesso e disseminação da informação científica. É sabido que com a difusão e propagação do uso dos recursos científicos eletrónicos as práticas de consulta e de leitura dos investigadores mudaram, não só ao nível do tempo que dedicam à pesquisa, mas sobretudo pela quantidade e variedade de conteúdos que consultam muito mais facilmente e rapidamente. Quisemos perceber se este aumento gradual no acesso a conteúdos científicos estava a ter algum impacto ao nível da produção científica nacional. Assim, entre Dezembro de 2013 e Fevereiro de 2014 aplicámos um inquérito online a 500 investigadores de modo a aferir qual o uso que faziam dos recursos disponibilizados pela b-on e em que medida é que esta Biblioteca lhes trouxe mudanças à sua prática profissional.
- The impact of the online knowledge library: Its use and impact on the production of the portuguese academic and scientific community (2000-2010)Publication . Costa, Teresa; Vaz, Francisco; Lopes, CarlosIn recent years several initiatives have taken place to promote universal access to the Information and Knowledge Society. It was in this context that in 2004 the Online Knowledge Library (b-on) was launched in Portugal. With it, it became easier to get access to full text international scientific publications. This study aims to present and analyse some of the statistical and bibliometric indicators of the Portuguese scientific output seeking to evaluate its link it with b-on. It was analysed the usage of b-on resources by the public universities members of the consortium from 2004 to 2010, and we chose as sample the five universities with more downloads per FTE (full time equivalent).In addition to the usage data of the consortium, we used the Web of Science (WoS) from which we identified the articles indexed by the five Portuguese universities affiliated between 2000-2010.Thus, and through a quantitative methodology, we identified the scientific production per subject area, international cooperation and scientific journals with the highest number of published articles, among others. We conclude that the availability and access to electronic resources contributes to the increased of the scientific productivity of the universities and that the study and analysis of its use and output are essential.