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Author(s): William H. Dutton, Paul W. Jeffreys, Ian Goldin
ISBN(s): 9780262513739, 0262513730
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Year: 2010
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ISBN 10: 0262513730

ISBN 13: 9780262513739 

Author: William H. Dutton, Paul W. Jeffreys, Ian Goldin

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

Advances in information and communication technology are transforming the way scholarly research is conducted across all disciplines. The use of increasingly powerful and versatile computer-based and networked systems promises to change research activity as profoundly as the mobile phone, the Internet, and email have changed everyday life. This book offers a comprehensive and accessible view of the use of these new approaches—called “e-Research”—and their ethical, legal, and institutional implications. The contributors, leading scholars from a range of disciplines, focus on how e-Research is reshaping not only how research is done but also, and more important, its outcomes. By anchoring their discussion in specific examples and case studies, they identify and analyze a promising set of practical developments and results associated with e-Research innovations. The contributors, who include Geoffrey Bowker, Christine Borgman, Paul Edwards, Tim Berners-Lee, and Hal Abelson, explain why and how e-Research activity can reconfigure access to networks of information, expertise, and experience, changing what researchers observe, with whom they collaborate, how they share information, what methods they use to report their findings, and what knowledge is required to do this. They discuss both the means of e-Research (new research-centered computational networks) and its purpose (to improve the quality of world-wide research).

Table of contents:

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: “Superstar” Concentrations of Scientific 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, Confidentiality, and Ethics: Opening Research Methods
 8.1: Ethical and Moral Dimensions of e-Research
 8.2: Data Sharing in Genomics—Is 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

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