Driving Science Information Discovery in the Digital Age

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.

Preface
1. Pathways to science information discovery
2. Scienti?c publishing in transition: Evolution of peer review, academic impact, and reliability of scienti?c information
3. Opening science
4. Designing for information discovery
5. Discovering scienti?c information
6. Promoting your research
7. How Eugene Gar?eld’s ideas and legacy revolutionized the discovery of scienti?c information
8. Interviews with Eugene Gar?eld