Communication: The Essence of Science
Facilitating Information Exchange Among Librarians, Scientists, Engineers and Students
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1979
- Latest edition
- Author: William D. Garvey
- Language: English
Communication: The Essence of Science provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of scientific communication. This book focuses on those information-exchange… Read more
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Communication: The Essence of Science provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of scientific communication. This book focuses on those information-exchange activities that take place mainly among scientists actively involved on the research front. Organized into five chapters, this book begins with an overview of the psychologists' description of the communication structure of science. This text then examines the relationship among spanning, connecting, and integrating the various streams of activities involved in the production of information. Other chapters consider some of the main republication media and suggest ways that may be used in the librarian's effort to provide effective information services to scientists. This book discusses as well the significance of scientific articles to the scientific community. The final chapter deals with the significant role of librarians as a social scientist. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists, social psychologists, librarians, social scientists, sociologists, engineers, teachers, and students.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Preface
The Role of Scientific Communication in the Conduct of Research and the Creation of Scientific Knowledge
Prepublication Dissemination of the Main Content of Journal Articles
The Scientific Journal Article
Post Publication Processing of Scientific Information
The Librarian's Role as a Social Scientist
Appendix A Communication and Information Processing within Scientific Disciplines: Empirical Findings for Psychology
Appendix B Scientific Communication as a Social System
Appendix C Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: I General Description of Research Program
Appendix D Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: II The Role of the National Meeting in Scientific and Technical Communication
Appendix E Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: III Information-Exchange Processes Associated with the Production of Journal Articles
Appendix F Continuity of Productivity by Scientists in the Years 1968-1971
Appendix G Scientific Quality and the Journal-Article Publication Process
Appendix H The Dynamic Scientific-Information User
Appendix I Communication in the Physical and Social Sciences
Appendix J Changing the System: Innovations in the Interactive Social System of Scientific Communication
Author Index
Subject Index
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- Published: May 19, 2014
- Language: English
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