World wide research : reshaping the sciences and humanities /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 382 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Research -- Methodology. Research -- Technological innovations. Information technology. Information technology. Research -- Methodology. Research -- Technological innovations. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216709

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Other authors / contributors:	Dutton, William H., 1947- Jeffreys, Paul W., 1954-
ISBN:	9780262272087 0262272083 1282638327 9781282638327 9780262014397 0262014394 9780262513739 0262513730
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Here, experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.
Other form:	Print version: World wide research. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010 9780262014397
Standard no.:	99938621870

Table of 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 Research9 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.

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