Resumen

TRILLO-TINOCO, Flor E.. INFORMATION POLICY OR INFORMATION SCIENCE POLICY?. Rev. Fuent. Cong. [online]. 2012, vol.6, n.23, pp. 5-13. ISSN 1997-4485.

This research was done based on a review of the behavior of the current Mexican laws in place regarding science, technology and innovation. Likewise, to review the approach of these laws and its impact on Libraries, Information and the Librarians (as important actors who will contribute with the measurement of the achievements based upon these laws). Thanks to the number of scientific articles published as well as the number of quotations found in scientific magazines with a high impact factor; these two key point factors mentioned work as a powerful tool that can be used a unit of measurement of the current government expenditure made on science, technology and innovation, as well as, to evaluate if the current policies in place are assertive. Nevertheless, many of these measurements and evaluations can be criticized due that can be considered as selective because are only made upon a selective number of magazines. Finally, these resources that the government uses in order to have a state of the art are the ones that help to evaluate the productivity of the researchers in this area. In case of Mexico, it is shown the differences between the Federal laws and the State laws, where ambiguity is found and reduces the opportunities to carry out an optimum development.  Some of these laws give more priority on supporting the actors than the whole infrastructure and vice versa, as well as it is found a lack of structured work-plans for its implementation.

Palabras llave : Public policies; Scientific policies; Information policies; Science, Technology, Innovation; Mexico; Law; Institutions.