1. Share
This InfoLit Bite lesson is adapted
from a larger Science Information
Life Cycle tutorial developed by UCI
Libraries.
This lesson focuses on one of the five
parts of the Science Information Life
Cycle: Share.
http://www.lib.uci.edu/licenses/license-ucilibs-find-science-info-tutorial.html
2. The life cycle of information differs in the
Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities.
This tutorial is designed to help you
understand unique characteristics of
information production and dissemination in
Science so that you can use library resources
effectively and efficiently. The tutorial is
divided into five sections.
The methods for producing science
information will impact…
how it is published and communicated,
which in turn affects…
what format it is published in and…
where you can find it. With the found
information, you will need to know…
the rules for including it in your research so
that you can produce information, and the
cycle begins again.
3. Once a scientist has applied the scientific method to produce new data
and drawn new conclusions, s/he must share this information with other
scientists. Sharing new information is just as important to the overall
progress of science as generating that information in the first place.
This section is designed to help you understand unique characteristics of
information and knowledge dissemination in Science so that you can use
library resources to find information effectively and efficiently.
What are we looking at now?
In this tutorial, you will:
• Learn how scientists use scholarly
communication to share
information
• Understand the peer review
process
Introduction
4. Pre-Test
How do scientists communicate scientific information with
others in their field?
⃝ Conference presentations
⃝ Published articles
⃝ Technical reports
⃝ All of the above, and multiple other ways
On scratch paper, identify your answer.
You will check your answer on the next slide.
5. Pre-Test
How do scientists communicate scientific information with
others in their field?
⃝ Conference presentations
⃝ Published articles
⃝ Technical reports
√ All of the above, and multiple other ways
6. The work of a scientist is best accomplished by using the scientific
method and scholarly communication.
Why share scientific information?
• Scientists share information to advance scientific knowledge.
• Without this sharing, everyone would have to start from scratch and
re-invent wheels that others have already invented.
Scientific progress would be slow and limited
What is scholarly communication?
• The system through which research and other scholarly writings are
created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly
community and preserved for future use.
What is the purpose of scholarly communication?
• To support the production and sharing of ideas within the scientific
community.
Why Share?
7. What is Open Access?
• Published scholarly work that is available for free on the public
Internet. Any user can read, download, copy, distribute, print,
search or link to the full text of the scholarly work.
Why care about Open Access?
• “Limited access to research makes [you] settle for the information
that is available rather than that which is most relevant.” –
rightofresearch.org
• Open access articles are credible and reliable as long as the peer
review process is in place.
Open Access
8. What is Peer Review?
Peer review is a critical component of the
scientific method in scholarly communication.
1. Scientist writes a paper and submits it to
a journal.
2. Journal editor sends the paper to other
scientists for anonymous review of quality
and originality.
• Was the work done properly?
• Does the discovery contribute something new?
• Is the subject matter appropriate for this journal?
• Is the paper written well enough for other scientists to
understand it?
3. Editor uses the reviewers’ comments and recommendations to accept
the paper or to reject it. Most accepted papers require revisions to
become a scholarly article.
9. The Peer Review Process
On scratch paper, identify which order the following processes go in.
You will check your answers on the next slide.
11. How do Scientists Communicate?
Scientists communicate with others through:
• Conference presentations and proceedings
• allows for timely communication of new findings
• often a limited lasting record, if any
• Published articles
• creates a permanent record of the discovery
• subject to peer review
• Other communications such as
• Technical reports, manuals,
associations’ newsletters,
case studies, image databases,
listserv postings, blogs, etc.
13. Let’s Review
Let’s review what you have learned:
• How scientists use scholarly communication to share
information.
• Open access makes some scientific research freely
available.
• An understanding of the peer review process.
14. Click here to take the 2 question quiz on this lesson.
If you have difficulties with the hyperlink, type the following
address into a new browser window:
http://irsc.libguides.com/survey.php?sur
vey_id=12520&mode=7&load_mode=0
Quiz
15. Please note: All aspects of this presentation are derived from a larger tutorial
created by UCI Libraries and may be accessed at
http://www.lib.uci.edu/how/tutorials/FindScienceInformation/public/
The original tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Details may be found at
http://www.lib.uci.edu/licenses/license-ucilibs-find-science-info-tutorial.html
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