El diseño de servicios y productos de información debe partir de las necesidades de información de los usuarios. Los servicios de educación de usuarios procuran formar habilidades en ellos para su desempeño ante la búsqueda, recuperación y uso de la información. La investigación que se presenta clasifica como aplicada, ofrece soluciones a problemá…[Read more]

Los análisis de referencias de las publicaciones seriadas, constituyen herramientas oportunas para la toma de decisiones encaminadas a mejorar la calidad de las revistas científicas. En la investigación se plantean como objetivos identificar aspectos necesarios para favorecer la calidad de los procesos editoriales en las publicaciones ci…[Read more]

La cienciometría es la especialidad métrica que aplica métodos y modelos matemáticos a una disciplina o dominio del conocimiento. Se plantea como objetivo del estudio examinar la producción científica internacional sobre la temática: Caña de Azúcar y Química Aplicada. El estudio pretende brindar información relevante a los investigad…[Read more]

La conservación documental garantiza la perdurabilidad de las fuentes y evita la restauración. Los soportes con grabaciones digitales por medio de la tecnología óptica (TO) son los más empleados para el almacenamiento de información, paradójicamente son los menos abordados en investigaciones sobre preservación documental. En el estudio se emplea…[Read more]

La información ha sido un elemento esencial en la formación y desarrollo de la sociedad humana. Asimismo, las tecnologías de información y comunicación han influido principalmente en cuanto al acceso, cantidad, disponibilidad y tiempo de respuesta de los sistemas con respecto a datos. Por otro lado, la lucha contra la desinformación y la ambig…[Read more]

Unlike French stereo photographers, who flooded the market with Spanish views, the most important British publishers and photographers rarely made Spanish views. Quite possibly this was precisely because of the rapid market penetration of the French, such as Gaudin, Ferrier and others, and in spite of the leading British photographic houses, such…[Read more]

The first time that there is historical steadfastness of the presence of a photographer in a warlike conflict, as graphic correspondent is in the war of Crimea, in 1854-55. In the successive conflicts armed with importance that happen from this date, 1859 and 1860, with the reunification of Italy and other episodes in the British empire, the photo…[Read more]

This essay traces some of the contexts and media in which “Heracles-Hercules” – as a hero between virtue and hubris – was visible in European societies from the end of the middle ages onwards. It discusses whether this example of the reception, appropriation and transformation of classical myths in the early modern period can be understood as a…[Read more]

For two years, from 1788 to 1790, Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739-1807) exchanged her familiar surroundings with Rome and Naples. She undertook her furthest and most ambitious journey at the age of almost 49. For the only time the princely widow left Germany or the German territories of the Reich. During her stay, the Duchess…[Read more]

Los boletines de asociaciones profesionales son una herramienta para la difusión selectiva de la información. Estos boletines de bibliotecarios en Cuba tienen auge en la década del 30 del siglo pasado tras aparecer numerosas asociaciones gremiales de este tipo. Existe en la literatura científica publicada una carencia de fuentes que sis…[Read more]

The period of masonic internationalism in the last third of the 19th and first third of the 20th centuries saw the most visible – and controversial – attempts to organisationally model the “cosmopolitan imperative” of freemasonry. The various freemasonries in Europe saw themselves as links in a world-spanning “chain of brothers” forged by the…[Read more]

In ‘Degeneration’ (1892), Max Nordau included Émile Zola in his theory that fin-de-siècle artists were a danger to society. According to Nordau, the ‘false science’ in Zola’s Naturalist novels would erode social progress in their alleged preoccupation with disease, sexual deviancy and amorality. This article proposes that degeneration is, how…[Read more]

Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

Haussmann’s re-building of Paris in the 1850s and ’60s had created an ordered city. However, the bourgeoisie used the new urban configurations as a weapon against the lower classes. This article describes the spaces of the underground and the overground: the underground is the metaphorical and literal rubbish heap for those in the lower parts of…[Read more]

Freedom of or from religion. Freemasonry as an international testing ground for fundamental societal issues (c. 1850–1930)
In masonic internationalism, key framework parameters of masonic activity were negotiated. They concerned the fundamental societal issue of how religious freedom (freedom to practise religion) and liberty of conscience (…[Read more]

Several documents from Egypt and Ḫatti (especially the Amarna letters and the Egyptian-Hittite correspondence) mention envoys and messengers in charge of diplomatic contacts between the two countries. Cuneiform and hieroglyphic transcriptions of Egyptian names at Ugarit hint at an actual presence (in Ugarit and Karkemish) of officials coming f…[Read more]

Espigando el diverso y abigarrado contenido del primer artículo dedicado a la biografía de Mencía de Mendoza, es bastante curioso el hecho de que su humilde y opaco autor, que no se atrevió a firmar la pieza, otorgase veracidad a una supuesta conversación entre la dama y su marido. Según este relato, en una de las ocasiones en que el noble guerr…[Read more]