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Ehsan visiting beauty Paris

I left Amsterdam to visit Paris 6^th September. I tripped by train 4:30 hours to Paris. At the first night of my arrival I visited the Effile tower, it was amazing. I lift up to top of the beauty tower as high as possible. Next day I visited the great Louvre museum, I saw just some parts of Louvre museum like Iran antique, Italian Paintings and famous sculptures saloons 6 hours visiting.At the night I was walking, eating and taking some photos in Champs Elysees Avenue.

Briefly Paris was really fabulous city.

Labels: events, news, trips

At Elsevier Office

Today morning I attend at Elsevier office in Amsterdam as a visitor. Elsevier is well-known company that publishes more than 25% of world science via Science Direct and facilitate research through some products like Engineering village, EMBASE and Scopus. One of the company mangers presented new development on new products (SciVal) for me.

Ehsan in Amsterdam

I am attending in PRIME-ENID Amsterdam Summer School on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators Knowledge Dynamics Visualisation. I presented my paper driven from master dissertation 3th of September. Participating in the summer school was so fruitful for me why that new topics of Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators and Knowledge visualisation techniques discussed by energetic PhD students around the world and expert European professors.

PRIME-ENID Summer School on Science , Technology and Innovation Indicators and knowledge visualization

My paper entitled "Knowledge mapping of Iranian Nano science and technology: a text mining approach" accepted to present at the PRIME-ENID Summer School on Science , Technology and Innovation Indicators and knowledge visualization. The summer school will be held in Amsterdam 1-4 September 2009. for detail program of this summer school you can click here. I will write the reports of my attendance in the Amsterdam summer school in near future.

Labels: article, conference, Dissertation, events, personal, Seminars

Thematic Categorization of library and information science

Thematic Categorization and Analysis of library and information science is title of a research done by Gonzalez-Alcaide, Gregorio, Lourdes Castello-Cogolles, Carolina Navarro-Molina, et al. The aim of this research was to provide an updated categorization of Library and InformationScience (LIS) publications and to identify trends in LIS research.
The authors identified 18 “thematic research core fields” (152) clustered around three large categories, “World Wide Web”, “Education”, and “Libraries”, plus 12 additional peripheral categories, and provided a schematic of field interrelationships.

Labels: article, new topics, Science Map, Scientometrics

Elsevier unveiled SciVal Spotlight

To date, research output has been evaluated based on the journal in which it is published. Each scientific journal is classified into a major field despite the fact that journals are progressively covering a wider array of disciplines and paradigms (sub-topics) that are not properly reflected in their field classification. this is challenge of measuring interdisciplinary research performance and allocating resources.Last week the scholarly publisher Elsevier unveiled SciVal Spotlight, an online service that attempts to uncover universities' strengths and weaknesses in no fewer than 80,000 areas of research.for more informaion on SciVal Spotlight click here.

Labels: Information Resources, new topics, New word, news, research assessment, Scopus, Social Web

What Is SUSHI?

The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2007) defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilizing a Web services framework. It is intended to replace the time-consuming user-mediated collection of usage data reports.for more information you can follow up this link.

Labels: Information Resources, new topics, New word