Revista Española de Documentación Científica
Vol. 20, N.º 4, 1997
ISSN 0210-0614
C O N T E N T S
STUDIES AND NOTES
Analysis of Spanish scientific output in Ecology and Environmental Sciences.
1989-1993.
J. R. P‚rez Alvarez-Ossorio, M. J. Mart¡n Sempere, M. T. Fern ndez, M. V zquez, C.
Galb n, L. Plaza, I. Aguillo, C. Ronda, A. Cabrero, S. Hernando and I. G¢mez
363
Health Sciences libraries in Spain. A first description.
P. L zaro de Mercado, M. A. Poza Sanz, J. M. Estrada Lorenzo, C. S nchez G¢mez
and Grupo de Investigaci¢n en Bibliotecas
376
Scientific documentation on Education: Secondary sources.
M. J. Romera Iruela 393
Total quality in Spanish databases: Error rate in the Scientific Research Council
databases.
V. Herrero Solana
410
STANDARDS
Documentation and Information. Part 6: Documentary languages.
ISO 5127/6 (E)
UNE 50-113/6 419
NEWS AND EXPERIENCES
437
BOOK REVIEWS
El uso de la documentación audiovisual en los programas informativos diarios
de televisión.
Teresa Agirreazaldegi Berriozabal
(by C. Benito)
461
America Latina en Internet: manual y fuentes de información.
Graciela Fainstein Lamuedra
(by G. Dema Rey) 462
BIBLIOGRAPHIC SECTION
465
ANNUAL INDEX. VOL. 20
491
AUTHOR INDEX. VOL. 20
499
Abstract: Four databases have been used to analyze Spanish scientific
production in Ecology and Environment: ICYT, a domestic database, for those
works published in Spanish journals, and three international databases,
Chemical Abstracts, Biosis and ASFA, for articles published in foreign journals. For
both series, a subject distribution is made, according to four broad headlines
included in the National Programme on Environment and Natural Resources:
Environmental destruction; Environmental preservation; Environmental
Technologies; and Dynamics of Ecosystems. Corporate sources of the articles
are also analyzed, as well as their geographic distribution and the most
frequently used journals. The high participation of universities (over two thirds of
total articles) justifies a more detailed study of this institutional sector.
Key words: Ecology, Environment, scientific output, Spain.1 Introducción
Abstract: Libraries are of fundamental importance in health care, training and
research due to continuing advances in knowledge and its diffusion in a wide
variety of publications. Spain lacks an organized library system and deficiencies
are perceived. This article presents a descriptive study of the health sciences
libraries in Spain. We performed a cross sectional study by survey of the
following public centers: hospitals with more than 100 beds or smaller hospitals
with teaching accreditation; centers of health management and
administration; research centers; schools of public health; schools of medicine
and dentistry; and schools of nursing and physical therapy. A self-administered
questionnaire was mailed to centers with libraries, and follow-up was made by
telephone. 400 of the 716 centers identified have their own libraries (55.9%),
and 82 have shared libraries (11.5%). Over half of the libraries (52.8%) are in
hospitals. All research centers, schools of medicine and dentistry, schools of
public health and hospital complexes have their own or shared libraries, as do
42.6% of administrative centers, 84.6% of schools of nursing and physical
therapy, 79% of all hospitals, 72.4% of individual hospitals, 92.5% of teaching
hospitals, and 50.5% of non-teaching hospitals. Only two-thirds of the centers
have access to a library. The proportion of hospitals with library access can be
considered low, especially in non-teaching hospitals, those with a small number
of beds, or those not belonging to a hospital complex. Over half of the libraries
are in hospitals, thus they will be of primary importance in designing future
documentation systems.
Key words: health sciences libraries, information and documentation systems,
Spain.
Abstract. This paper makes a conceptual approach to ®Scientific
Documentation on Education¯. After that, seven kinds of secondary sources in
education are selected and analyzed, those considered most significant to
meet the informative needs of education professionals: bibliographies,
catalogues, sumary reviews, abstracts bulletins, bibliographical indexes, citation
indexes and data-bases. The paper concludes remarking both the need and
the importance of incorporating knowledge about these secondary
information sources to the initial curriculum and to the permanent formation of
education professionals. It makes possible the transfer of research results to
education practice.
Keywords: Scientific Documentation on Education, information sources,
secondary documents, information retrieval, education professionals.
Abstract. The quality of products and services is the buzzword of the 90's,
specially in the information retrieval field. This article analyzes de quality level of
three Spanish databases developed by the Council for Scientific Research:
ICYT, ISOC and IME. The variable studied is the error rate, a objective indicator
for the quality measurement. Finally, the results are compared to international
standards.
Keywords: Total quality management, TQM, error rate, database.