Francesc García Grimau

Francesc García Grimau
  • BSc in Information and Documentation
  • Professor (Assistant) at University of Barcelona

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Introduction
Graduated in Library and Information Science bachelor's degree, with a background in Chemistry, Engineering, Science and Technology. Has some experience working as an intern in several academic libraries and performing research support tasks at three different research groups.
Current institution
University of Barcelona
Current position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Additional affiliations
September 2014 - October 2019
University of Barcelona
Position
  • Instructor
September 2014 - present
University of Barcelona
Position
  • Part-time Instructor
January 2013 - October 2013
University of Barcelona
Position
  • Research Assistant
Description
  • Research support Bibliographic searches Data management Document edition Document translation Website creation Electronic publication management (Blok de BiD)
Education
September 2009 - July 2013
University of Barcelona
Field of study
  • Library and Information Science
September 1998 - June 2004
Universidad Rovira i Virgili
Field of study
  • Chemical Engineering

Publications

Publications (17)
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La Viquipèdia en català és una exitosa plataforma de coneixement lliure amb una forta comunitat d'editors que ha contribuït significativament a normalitzar aquesta llengua minoritzada a Internet. El 2012 l'Associació Amical Wikimedia i el Servei de Biblioteques Públiques del Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya impulsà #Bibliowikis...
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Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project contains 19 chapters by 52 authors from Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The chapters in this book are authored by both new and longtime members of the Wikimedia community, representing a range of experiences.
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El Plan S promueve que todos los artículos derivados de investigaciones financiadas por las agencias que lo suscriben sean puestos en acceso abierto de forma inmediata, ya sea en revistas o en repositorios que cumplan con determinadas condiciones, a partir de enero de 2021. Ha sido promovido por Science Europe, una agrupación de agencias de financi...
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Se analizan los principales elementos y características del Plan S, iniciativa de la cOAlition S, promovido desde Europa para acelerar el acceso abierto, al pedir a los investigadores que los artículos sufragados por un conjunto de agencias adheridas sean puestos a disposición inmediatamente una vez publicados, con una serie de requisitos a nivel d...
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Plan S: Oportunidades y amenazas para las revistas de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales Alexandre López-Borrull Candela Ollé-Castellà Ernest Abadal Francesc Garcia-Grimau 9ª Conferencia internacional sobre revistas científicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Logroño, 23 y 24 de mayo de 2019 1
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Objetivo: El presente estudio consiste en el análisis de una selección de pódcast dedicados a las disciplinas de la Archivística, la Biblioteconomía y la Documentación. Mediante el análisis de sus características principales se pretende reflexionar sobre su papel en la formación continua de los profesionales de la documentación, la difusión de la p...
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The exponential growth of data in digital environments has highlighted the emergence of developing analytics processes for data visualization and evaluation. The same happens at the university research level. Therefore, universities need to have specific analytical processes for research evaluation. The aim of our study is to find the way to apply...
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Introducció L’estudi sorgeix de la necessitat de conèixer com s’estan adaptant les biblioteques universitàries al creixement en l’ús dels dispositius mòbils. Objectius · Decidir quina és l’opció òptima per a presentar la informació i oferir els serveis de les biblioteques universitàries en dispositius mòbils: pàgina web o aplicació mòbil. · Pro...
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This communication describes the process of analysis of the technical and functional requirements for a Patent Management System with Open Source Software as well as proprietary software. Innovative companies have their main actives in the management of their portfolios of intellectual property, compound for example by patents or utility models. In...
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Introducció El propòsit d’aquest estudi és descriure els hàbits de citació dels estudiants de secundària, per tal de millorar la selecció de recursos de les biblioteques escolars i ajudar a desenvolupar programes d’alfabetització informacional en aquests centres. Metodologia En aquest treball s’han analitzat dues mostres, una composta per 160 tr...
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The purpose of this study is to expose examples of how low-cost hardware components and open-source software can benefits library systems on a basis of the drastic cost-reduction of this institutions’ budgets and the way it can motivate their staff at developing proposals for rethinking, not only their workspace, but also the conception of services...
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Purpose – This study seeks to analyse the policies of library and information science (LIS) journals regarding the publication of supplementary materials, the number of journals and articles that include this feature, the kind of supplementary materials published with regard to their function in the article, the formats employed and the access prov...
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This paper presents the results of a survey of academics affiliated to the universities that are members of the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) and an analysis of the availability in the libraries of these universities of the references cited in a sample of articles published by these academics. The results reflect the major im...
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This paper presents the results of a survey of academics affiliated to the universities that are members of the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) and an analysis of the availability in the libraries of these universities of the references cited in a sample of articles published by these academics. The results reflect the major im...

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