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Following the diffusion of the management model promoted by the New Public Management also within universities, sectors until then endowed with particular protection, such as the academic one, were progressively subjected to new controls and constraints, which gradually took the form of quantitative surveys, with a growing role of citation metrics. These evaluation processes have given rise to various important critical positions at an international level. If it is true that, according to Goodhart's law, "when a measure becomes an objective it ceases to be a good measure”, it is even more significant to note that when a measure becomes an objective, what is measured ceases to be what it was before. The quantitative measurement of academic performance has in fact triggered forms of gaming such as to alter the very game of scientific research, its purposes and the forms of its sharing. In the article we will carry out a comparison between the forms of mutation and the narratives that accompany them to see to what extent we are legitimate today to talk about the transformation of scientific research into strategic scientific research.

Following the diffusion of the management model promoted by the New Public Management also within universities, sectors until then endowed with particular protection, such as the academic one, were progressively subjected to new controls and constraints, which gradually took the form of quantitative surveys, with a growing role of citation metrics. These evaluation processes have given rise to various important critical positions at an international level. If it is true that, according to Goodhart's law, "when a measure becomes an objective it ceases to be a good measure”, it is even more significant to note that when a measure becomes an objective, what is measured ceases to be what it was before. The quantitative measurement of academic performance has in fact triggered forms of gaming such as to alter the very game of scientific research, its purposes and the forms of its sharing. In the article we will carry out a comparison between the forms of mutation and the narratives that accompany them to see to what extent we are legitimate today to talk about the transformation of scientific research into strategic scientific research.

La posmodernidad es una de las nuevas ópticas bajo la cual las Ciencias de la Información en Iberoamérica han querido ser encuadradas, esta visión, aunque importante en las narrativas informativas, no ha sido sistematizada y evaluada en tiempos recientes en la región, dejando un vacío a resolver. Con la necesidad planteada, este estudio busca determinar el estado actual de la posmodernidad en las Ciencias de la Información iberoamericanas. Para la concesión del objetivo, se siguió un enfoque metodológico mixto, de tipo secuencial explicativo basado en la teoría del Análisis de dominio, en el que se hizo uso de la bibliometría y el análisis del discurso como métodos. Tomando a la base de datos BRAPCI como fuente de datos, haciendo uso indicadores bibliométricos y redes neuronales, se halló una tendencia positiva en publicación durante el periodo 1972-2021, donde se ubicaron 29 obras relacionadas con la temática, existiendo una preferencia a temas epistémicos con claro enfoque en la Ciencia de la Información y la Archivología. En relación a las narrativas internas de los textos seleccionados, existe una clara influencia de autores como Gernot Wersig, Boaventura Santos o Terry Cook, concurriendo en la comunidad varias visiones a la hora de tratar las relaciones explícitas e implícitas del discurso posmoderno informativo. Se concluye subrayando que hay una influencia evidente, aunque no cohesiva, del discurso posmoderno en las Ciencias de la Información en Iberoamérica.

The semantic field of the problem of the current applied research "Educational libraries as a subject of designing an educational environment in conditions of digitalization" (2023–2025) was considered in the system of concepts "computer-oriented pedagogical systems", "distance and mixed learning technologies", "digital educational resources and teaching aids" taking into account the methodological foundations of interdisciplinary research.

Provides overview of need, technologies and importance of library portal and dynamic websites. Discuss the user needs in terms of easy access to library online resources and need for libraries to adapt to such demanding requirements.

[spa] La visualización de datos en periodismo tiene una aplicación intensiva como herramienta para narrar historias, sin embargo, las investigaciones y aportaciones teóricas sobre este campo no acompañan ni en volumen ni en importancia. Ante estas circunstancias nace este informe, que analiza la producción científica sobre medios de comunicación, visualización de datos y, más concretamente sobre la visualización de la información, infografías, narrativas visuales y visual Storytelling. Con ello, se pretende en primer lugar, conocer el estado del arte sobre esta disciplina, en segundo lugar, identificar nuevas tendencias, desafíos, tecnologías y protocolos y, en tercer lugar, determinar sus posibilidades y limitaciones en el campo de la comunicación y el periodismo. Los resultados señalan que los principales estudios desarrollados en los últimos años sobre esta disciplina se han centrado principalmente en la infografía, el periodismo de datos, el periodismo estructurado, la alfabetización mediática sobre la interpretación del lector sobre los datos visuales, las propuestas de visualización en cibermedios y la analítica visual. Respecto a las tecnologías y herramientas de visualización de datos se han realizado estudios muy interesantes sobre Big data y medios de comunicación, y más específicamente sobre software y sobre creación de herramientas de análisis visual. Adicionalmente, se han estudiado las prácticas de visualización de datos en las redacciones periodísticas, en este sentido, destacan los estudios sobre rutinas productivas, propuestas de visualización de datos en cibermedios, diseño de visualizaciones y sobre técnicas de interacción. [eng] Data visualization in journalism today has an intensive application as a storytelling tool. However, research and theoretical contributions in this field do not match it in volume or importance. Given these circumstances, the aim of this report is to analyze the scientific production on data visualization in news media; and, more specifically, on information visualization, infographics, visual narratives and visual storytelling. With this, the aim is, firstly, to know the state of the art on the discipline of visualization, secondly, to identify new trends, challenges, technologies and protocols and, thirdly, to determine its possibilities and limitations in the field of communication and journalism. The results indicate that the main studies developed in recent years on this discipline have focused mainly on infographics, data journalism, structured journalism, media literacy on the reader's interpretation of visual data, visualization proposals in digital news media and visual analytics. Regarding data visualization technologies and tools, very interesting studies have been carried out on Big data and media, and more specifically on software and on the creation of visual analysis tools. In addition, data visualization practices in newsrooms have been studied, in this sense, studies on productive routines, data visualization proposals in digital news media, visualization design and interaction techniques stand out. Finally, studies on visual analytics, challenges and decision making have also been carried out. Este trabajo forma parte del proyecto "Parámetros y estrategias para incrementar la relevancia de los medios y la comunicación digital en la sociedad: curación, visualización y visibilidad (CUVICOM)”. PID2021-123579OB-I00 (MICINN), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España). Actividad financiada por la Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU, Ministerio de Universidades y Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia, mediante convocatoria de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).

Study understand the trends and characteristics of marketing in both university central library. Study adopts qualitative analysis methodology focusing on library marketing. Study adopted though the comparison of theme library marketing i) library environment ii) user centric iii) library marketing strategies iv) customer/ user relationship management v) user satisfaction. Comparative study results the library marketing activities of the university and libraries for their products and services.

Designing of the information retrieval system is a major technical work to provide relevant information to the information users. Though several databases use text mining technology or keyword-based techniques for abstract or text retrieval but some studies have shown the importance of a figure’s caption search and its parallel retrieval for a better understanding of an article’s contents, especially in biological sciences. In the paper, using the Web of Science database, the efficiency of the processes of assigning the weight value to the technical terms is tested. Finally, the discussion has been made about the importance of analyzing the captions of the objects presented in research articles for providing better services to the scientific community.

A definition of artificial intelligence is analyzed and it is pointed out how fundamental data are to feed decisional systems, bearing in mind that a library does not store data, but rather relationships between data, which must be constantly verified. After referring to the pathology of intelligent systems and the pathology of human folly, with examples, the author warns us that any AI system completely lacks human ethics

This research work presents the final report for the NEFUSI project. In fact, we present here our research findings on building neurofuzzy models that automatically evaluate semantic textual similarity in an accurate and timely manner. We show that neural networks and fuzzy logic have different features that make them suitable for certain problems but unsuitable for others. Neural networks, on the one hand, are valuable tools for identifying patterns. However, they need to make it easier for people to comply with the decisions. On the other hand, interpretation is possible within fuzzy logic systems, but they cannot automatically derive the rules they use to make those decisions. These constraints served as the primary reason for developing a novel intelligent hybrid system, which combines two approaches to circumvent the individual effects of both limitations simultaneously.