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Aiming the internationalization, BDS intensifies actions for establishing multidisciplinary partnerships, for searching institutional support, and for educating the national scientific community about the importance of valuing national science. The media for exposing this knowledge must be a national media. Publishing quality Brazilian science in national journals using international language m...

Publish and perish?

Medical libraries are experiencing a funding crunch. Although this is not specific to medical libraries (1), funding of libraries is an issue that spans the continent (2,3). At the University of California San Diego (UCSD), the Medical Libraries proposed subscription to 1250 titles in 1997/1998. This represented a 48% decrease since 1991/1992! Faculty pleas resulted in a last minute “temporary ...

Publish and perish

The nature of publicly funded research is changing. Both developed and developing nations are increasing their investments in scientific research, either to maintain their technological lead or to catch up with advanced societies. The focus on research as a basis for a ‘knowledge society’ has raised public awareness of science and its impact on society, with repercussions for science and its pu...

To Share or Not to Share SHARE-it: Lessons Learnt

The purpose of this position paper is to discuss the authors’ reflections on the use of Assistive Technologies to support user’s autonomy to perform the necessary Activities of Daily Living (ADL). In special, we will address the use of Agent-based robotic services.