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World Wide Research : Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (403 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262272087
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: World Wide ResearchDDC classification:
  • 001.4/2
LOC classification:
  • Q180.55.M4W67 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- World Wide Research : An Introduction -- I Foundations -- 1 Reconfiguring Access in Research -- 2 The Developing Conception of e-Research -- II State of the Practice -- 3 Digital Resources and the Future of Libraries -- 4 Key Digital Technologies to Deal with Data -- 5 Embedding e-Research Applications -- III Social Shaping of Infrastructures and Practices -- 6 Enabling or Mediating the Social Sciences? -- 7 Institutional Infrastructures for Global Research Networks in the Public Sector -- 8 The Politics of Privacy, Confidentiality, and Ethics -- IV Implications for Research -- 9 The Changing Disciplinary Landscapes of Research -- 10 Reshaping Research Collaboration -- 11 Will e-Science Be Open Science? -- 12 Shaping Research in Developing Areas -- Coda: The Ends and Means of World Wide Research -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Index.
Summary: Experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- World Wide Research : An Introduction -- I Foundations -- 1 Reconfiguring Access in Research -- 2 The Developing Conception of e-Research -- II State of the Practice -- 3 Digital Resources and the Future of Libraries -- 4 Key Digital Technologies to Deal with Data -- 5 Embedding e-Research Applications -- III Social Shaping of Infrastructures and Practices -- 6 Enabling or Mediating the Social Sciences? -- 7 Institutional Infrastructures for Global Research Networks in the Public Sector -- 8 The Politics of Privacy, Confidentiality, and Ethics -- IV Implications for Research -- 9 The Changing Disciplinary Landscapes of Research -- 10 Reshaping Research Collaboration -- 11 Will e-Science Be Open Science? -- 12 Shaping Research in Developing Areas -- Coda: The Ends and Means of World Wide Research -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Index.

Experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.

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