Comunicación científica (XXX). Cómo hacer un protocolo de investigación / Scientific communication (XXX). How to elaborate a research protocol on health sciences

La investigación es un proceso sistemático que se lleva a cabo en cuatro grandes etapas: conceptual, empírica, interpretativa y comunicativa. El protocolo de investigación es el documento que nos permite pasar de la concepción de un problema de investigación a su puesta en marcha, por lo que se enmarca en la etapa conceptual de la investigación y su finalización coincide con el inicio de la etapa empírica o práctica. Su función es comunicar con el máximo detalle, precisión y claridad todos los aspectos relacionados con el estudio que se plantea, para su posterior evaluación por parte del organismo de investigación competente. Este artículo, en el que se describe cuál es la estructura de un protocolo, qué apartados lo componen y cómo debe elaborarse, pretende servir de guía orientativa para todos los profesionales de pediatría interesados en planificar y realizar una investigación científica (AU)

Research is a systematic process which can be conducted through four phases: conceptual, empirical, interpretative and communicative. A research protocol is the document that allows going from the conception of a research problem to the research in itself. It starts in the conceptual stage and its finalization coincides with the beginning of the empirical stage. Its purpose is to communicate in detail, reliability and clarity every aspect related to the suggested study in order to evaluate it subsequently by the proper research body. This paper describes the structure, sections and elaboration of a research protocol and it is pretended to be used as a guide for the Pediatrics professionals interested in planning and conducting a scientific research (AU)

Visiting Old Libraries: Scientific Books in the Religious Institutions of Early Modem Portugal.

Knowledge of libraries and book collecting is a preliminary task for the characterisation of scientific culture and practice. In the case of Iberia, and especially Portugal, this is still a desideratum. This paper provides a first global look at this issue. In early modem Portugal religious institutions organised impressive collections of books, by far the largest in the country These libraries not only served the religious institutions themselves, but also supplied books to lesser libraries, such as the University Library of Coimbra and the Royal Library. The Portuguese book market mirrored the purchase and selection of books made by religious congregations. This was also true for the circulation of scientific books, which depended above all on the interests, choices and cultural relations of these most peculiar book collectors.

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Principios y criterios utilizados en España por la Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora (CNEAI) para la valoración de las publicaciones científi cas: 1989-2009 / Principles and criteria used by the National Evaluation Committee of Research Activity (CNEAI-Spain) for the assessment of scientific publications: 1989-2009

Estudio sobre los orígenes, filosofía y trayectoria de los criterios de evaluación de la actividad investigadora utilizados en España por la CNEAI. Se analizan los criterios de valoración e indicios de calidad de las publicaciones. Se presentan los criterios en su desarrollo temporal, estructurados por tipo de publicaciones (artículos y libros) y campos de conocimiento. Se concluye que hasta 1996 la evaluación se sustenta en la definición y objetivos del sistema y en criterios generales. Entre 1996-2004 se inicia la formulación de los indicadores de calidad de la investigación, quedando asociados casi exclusivamente con las publicaciones de impacto (revistas JCR). Las tasas de éxito hasta 2004 indican que criterios de evaluación y comportamientos de publicación correlacionan en las «ciencias duras», pero no en Sociales ni en Economía. En 2005 se desarrollan y reorientan los criterios para suavizar el JCR-centrismo precedente, considerando otras bases de datos y definiendo los criterios de calidad homologables que deben cumplir revistas, libros y congresos. Las tasas de éxito de 2007 indican una recuperación espectacular en Economía. En los 4 últimos años se ha consolidado la apertura de los criterios con la incorporación de nuevos índices de referencia y la plena integración de los libros (AU)

Study of the origins, philosophy and history of the criteria used to assess research activities in Spain by the CNEAI. The assessment criteria and quality evidence of publications is discussed. Results are presented on the temporal development of the criteria used, grouped by publication type (articles and books) and fields of knowledge. Between 1989- 1996, assessment was based on the definition and goals set by the Spanish scientific framework and on general criteria. Between 1996-2004, the formulation of indicators began to be almost exclusively based on Journal Citation Reorts (JCR). Success rates up to 2004 indicate that the evaluation criteria and publishing behaviour matched the «hard sciences», but not the Social Sciences and Economics. In 2005, the criteria used were further developed and reoriented with an eye to softening the preceding JCR-centrism by taking into consideration other databases and defining the quality criteria to be met by journals, books and conferences not included in JCR. Correspondingly, the success rates for 2007 indicate a dramatic recovery in Economics. In the last 4 years, Humanities and Social Sciences have consolidated the further opening of the criteria used with the addition of new benchmarks and the full integration of books (AU)

[The Paduan doctor Alessandro Pellati, his library and the first edition of De medicorum astrologia]. / Il dottore padovano Alessandro Pellati, la sua biblioteca e l'editio princeps del De medicorum astrologia.

The article prints the text of a document in the Archivio di Stato, Venice, comprising a list of books intended for auction, with an estimate of their value. THey constitute the private library of Alessandro Pellati (d. 1487), a Paduan doctor about whom nothing is known, except his name appears in the colophon of the first edition of a short treatise attributed to Hippocrates, the De medicorum astrologia seu de esse aegrorum, translated into Latin and published in Padua in 1483. The considerable number of astrological works in his library show that Pellati was keenly interested in the subject which, under the title of "natural magic", had assumed a significant place in medical studies at that time, particularly in Padua.