World wide research : reshaping the sciences and humanities /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Description:xix, 382 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Research -- Methodology.
Research -- Technological innovations.
Information technology.
Information technology.
Research -- Methodology.
Research -- Technological innovations.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8063190
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Other authors / contributors:Dutton, William H., 1947-
Jeffreys, Paul W., 1954-
ISBN:9780262014397 (hc. : alk. paper)
0262014394 (hc. : alk. paper)
9780262513739 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262513730 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • World Wide Research: An Introduction
  • I. Foundations
  • 1. Reconfiguring Access in Research: Information, Expertise, and Experience
  • 1.1. The Long Now of Cyberinfrastructure
  • 1.2. Identifying Winners and Losers: The Role of Webometrics
  • 1.3. öSuperstarö Concentrations of Scientifi c Output and Recognition
  • 2. The Developing Conception of e- Research
  • 2.1. Research Platforms in the Cloud
  • 2.2. The New e- Research
  • 2.3. The Promises and Threats of e- Research in the Strategies of Firms and Nations
  • II. State Of The Practice
  • 3. Digital Resources and the Future of Libraries
  • 3.1. Data Webs for Image Repositories
  • 3.2. Digital Technology and Ancient Manuscripts
  • 4. Key Digital Technologies to Deal with Data
  • 4.1. Embedded Networked Sensing
  • 4.2. Identifying Digital Objects
  • 4.3. Use of the Semantic Web in e- Research
  • 5. Embedding e- Research Applications: Designing for Usability
  • 5.1. Trusted Computing Platforms
  • 5.2. Social Networking and e- Research
  • III. Social Shaping Of Infrastructures And Practices
  • 6. Enabling or Mediating the Social Sciences? The Opportunities and Risks of Bottom- up Innovation
  • 6.1. An e- Infrastructure for the Social Sciences
  • 6.2. Chinese e-Social Science: A Low- End Approach
  • 7. Institutional Infrastructures for Global Research Networks in the Public Sector
  • 7.1. Ownership of Medical Images in e- Science Collaborations:
  • Learning from the Diagnostic Mammography National Database
  • 7.2. The Value of Authorship in the Digital Environment: Producing and Protecting Scientific Information
  • 8. The Politics of Privacy, Confi dentiality, and Ethics: Opening Research Methods
  • 8.1. Ethical and Moral Dimensions of e- Research
  • 8.2. Data Sharing in GenomicsùIs It Lawful?
  • 8.3. Protecting Confidentiality
  • IV. Implications For Research
  • 9. The Changing Disciplinary Landscapes of Research
  • 9.1. The Agenda- Setting Role of e- Research
  • 10. Reshaping Research Collaboration: The Case of Virtual Research Environments
  • 10.1. The Future of Virtual Research Environments
  • 11. Will e- Science Be Open Science?
  • 11.1. The Politics of Open Access
  • 11.2. Open Access versus "Open Viewing" for a Web of Science: The Neurocommons Example
  • 12. Shaping Research in Developing Areas
  • Coda: The Ends and Means of World Wide Research
  • Glossary
  • Abbreviations
  • Index