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]

Introducción: la vasculitis leucocitoclástica constituye un proceso clínico patológico caracterizado por inflamación y necrosis de los vasos sanguíneos. Objetivo: describir las características clínicas de la vasculitis leucocitoclástica y el tratamiento utilizado. Resultados: se indicaron estudios de laboratorios: eritrosedimentación, células L…[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]

Circular Quay was one of the first points of contact between First Nations people and Europeans, and to this day, it is one of the busiest localities on Sydney Harbour. The quay’s history is rich as it is still a busy transport hub, government administration area and commercial zone. In more recent decades, it’s expanded to include thriving…[Read more]

Taxes and dying. Two certainties in life, and that was certainly the case in colonial Sydney. For more than 150 years Customs House has provided the means of collecting taxes on the movement of goods

Journalist Jeff McGill recently wrote an opinion piece in the Campbel/town Macarthur Advertiser with the heading ‘Nothing “yucky” about fibro cottages’. He continued that ‘Macarthur’s first big housing development was Campbelltown’s St Elmo Estates of the 1950s, guided by Neil McLean, a much-loved developer’.1 The McLean St Elmo land releases were…[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 two very influential papers from 2008, Tamar Gendler introduced the concept of “alief” to describe the mental state one is in when acting in ways contrary to their consciously professed beliefs. For example, if asked to eat what they know is fudge, but shaped into the form of dog feces, they will hesitate, and behave in a manner that would be…[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]

Early European settlers were the key actors in a place-making exercise that constructed an English-style landscape aesthetic on the colonial stage in the Cowpastures district of New South Wales. The aesthetic became part of the settler colonial project and the settlers’ aim of taking possession of territory involved the construction of a c…[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]