Managing Scientific Information and Research Data

Svetla Baykoucheva (Baykousheva) is a Chemistry and Life Sciences Librarian at the University of Maryland College Park (USA), where she teaches chemical information. She holds a PhD in Microbiology, BS and MS degrees in Chemistry, and a Master’s in Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree. A postdoctoral fellowship from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) allowed her to specialise at the University of Paris VI (France) for one year. For more than 20 years she performed interdisciplinary research in infectious microbiology and biochemistry, publishing more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals (see her Google Scholar Profile). She has also served as the head of the White Memorial Chemistry Library at the University of Maryland College Park and as manager of the Library and Information Center of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington, D.C. In her role as editor of the Chemical Information Bulletin (published by the ACS Division of Chemical Information), she took numerous interviews from scholars, information experts, editors, and publishers. She previously published Managing Scientific Information and Research Data, also with Elsevier.

Chapter 1. The Road from Chemistry—to Microbiology—to Information Science
Chapter 2. Scientific communication in the digital age
Chapter 3. Ethics in scientific publishing
Chapter 4. An editor’s view: Interview with John Fourkas
Chapter 5. Finding and managing scientific information
Chapter 6. Science information literacy and the role of academic librarians
Chapter 7. Information literacy and social media: Interview with Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri
Chapter 8. Coping with "Big Data": eScience
Chapter 9. Managing research data: Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs)
Chapter 10. The complexity of chemical information: Interview with Gary Wiggins
Chapter 11. Measuring academic impact
Chapter 12. From the Science Citation Index to the Journal Impact Factor and Web of Science: Interview with Eugene Garfield
Chapter 13. What it looked like to work at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI): Interview with Bonnie Lawlor
Chapter 14. Measuring attention: Social media and Altmetrics
Chapter 15. Unique identifiers
Chapter 16. Epilogue: Creating an information-literate generation of scientists