Chapter 4 - An Academic Model to Support Scientific Production and Communication

Abstract

This chapter proposes a model to support the development of scientific processes in knowledge institutions. This model’s objectives, scope, and methodological issues are defined, as it focuses on strengthening the generation of the scientific productivity environment, which will enable the successful generation of scientific production, communication, and dissemination. It explains five organizational structures that are proposed as alternatives to implement this model in knowledge institutions: mutual collaboration, direct supervision, standardization of working processes, standardization of working products, standardization of competences and knowledge, and the development of an integral model. The basic services that an institutional department or unit based upon the model proposed are analyzed, these include: information needs diagnostics; searching for information sources; identification of information sources for scientific communication and dissemination; editing and preparing manuscripts for publication; data transcription, preparation, processing and analysis; translation of scientific documents; information metrics studies; user satisfaction analysis; and training programs.