An analysis of RedIRIS Information Science mailing lists from 2002 to 2011

Authors

  • Ana María Cordero-González Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentación y la Comunicación. Universidad de Extremadura. Plaza Ibn Marwan s/n, La Alcazaba, 06071 Badajoz, España
  • Cristina Faba-Pérez Departamento de Información y Comunicación. Universidad de Extremadura. Plaza Ibn Marwan s/n, La Alcazaba, 06071 Badajoz, España

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54886/ibersid.v7i0.4100

Keywords:

Distribution lists, Documentation, Temporal evolution, E-mail domains, Spain

Abstract

The behavior of the Information Science mailing lists hosted in the Spanish universities’ RedIRIS service during the decade 2002-2011 is analysed according to two variables: the evolution of the number of messages sent to the distribution lists, and the email addresses domains of the authors. The results show that e-mail messages sent to the lists increased by 28.45% and that the mail domains of scientific and educational institutions have higher percentages than the personal or commercial mail domains, increasing by 4.27% during the period. These results confirm the importance of email as a very useful and reliable communication medium for the Spanish scientific and educational LIS community.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Ana María Cordero-González, Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentación y la Comunicación. Universidad de Extremadura. Plaza Ibn Marwan s/n, La Alcazaba, 06071 Badajoz, España

Licenciada en Documentación por la Universidad de Extremadura y Máster Universitario en Investigación en Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas (Especialidad en Documentación y Comunicación) por la Universidad de Extremadura.

Cristina Faba-Pérez, Departamento de Información y Comunicación. Universidad de Extremadura. Plaza Ibn Marwan s/n, La Alcazaba, 06071 Badajoz, España

Profesora Titular de Universidad del Departamento de Información y Comunicación en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentación y la Comunicación de la Universidad de Extremadura.

Downloads

Additional Files

Published

2013-09-21

How to Cite

Cordero-González, A. M., & Faba-Pérez, C. (2013). An analysis of RedIRIS Information Science mailing lists from 2002 to 2011. Ibersid: Journal of Information and Documentation Systems (ISSNe 2174-081X; ISSN 1888-0967), 7, 157–162. https://doi.org/10.54886/ibersid.v7i0.4100

Issue

Vol. 7 (2013)

Section

Case studies, research in progress, short articles and notes

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Authors retain their copyright, but transfer the exploitation rights (reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation) to the journal in a non-exclusive way and guarantee the right to the first publication of their work to the journal, which will be simultaneously subjected to the license CC BY-NC-ND. Authors take whole personal responsibility on fulfilling all the appropiate ethical codes and laws, and obtaining all the necessary copyright permissions regarding their articles. Institutional and self- archiving is allowed and encouraged.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

© 2007- . Authors retain their copyright, but transfer the exploitation rights (reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation) to the journal in a non-exclusive way and guarantee the right to the first publication of their work to the journal, which will be simultaneously subjected to the license CC BY-NC-ND. Authors take whole personal responsibility on fulfilling all the appropiate ethical codes and laws, and obtaining all the necessary copyright permissions regarding their articles. Institutional and self- archiving is allowed and encouraged.

Most read articles by the same author(s)