World wide research : reshaping the sciences and humanities /
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. |
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Description: | xix, 382 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8063190 |
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