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World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities

William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys

Abstract

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 an accessible view of the use of these new approaches—called “e-Research”—and their ethical, legal, and institutional implications. The contributors focus on how e-Research is reshaping not only how research is done but also its outcomes. By ... More

Keywords: information technology, communication technology, e-Research, ethical implications, legal implications, institutional implications, outcomes, case studies, Geoffrey Bowker, Christine Borgman

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2010 Print ISBN-13: 9780262014397
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013 DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262014397.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

William H. Dutton, editor

Paul W. Jeffreys, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contributors

World Wide Research: An Introduction

William H. Dutton, and Paul W. Jeffreys

I Foundations

1 Reconfiguring Access in Research: Information, Expertise, and Experience

William H. Dutton

1.1 The Long Now of Cyberinfrastructure

Geoffrey C. Bowker, Paul N. Edwards, Steven J. Jackson, and Cory P. Knobel

1.2 Identifying Winners and Losers: The Role of Webometrics

Mike Thelwall

1.3 “Superstar” Concentrations of Scientific Output and Recognition

Robert Ackland

2 The Developing Conception of e-Research

Paul W. Jeffreys

2.1 Research Platforms in the Cloud

Tony Hey, Roger Barga, and Savas Parastatidis

2.2 The New e-Research

David De Roure

2.3 The Promises and Threats of e-Research in the Strategies of Firms and Nations

John Taylor

II State of the Practice

3 Digital Resources and the Future of Libraries

Eric T. Meyer, Christine Madsen, and Jenny Fry

3.1 Data Webs for Image Repositories

David Shotton

3.2 Digital Technology and Ancient Manuscripts

Alan Bowman

4 Key Digital Technologies to Deal with Data

Yorick Wilks, and Matthijs den Besten

4.1 Embedded Networked Sensing

Christine L. Borgman

4.2 Identifying Digital Objects

Michael A. Fraser

4.3 Use of the Semantic Web in e-Research

Kieron O’Hara, Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, and Nigel Shadbolt

5 Embedding e-Research Applications : Designing for Usability

Grace de la Flor, Marina Jirotka, Sharon Lloyd, and Andrew Warr

5.1 Trusted Computing Platforms

Andrew Martin

5.2 Social Networking and e-Research

Mike Thelwall

III Social Shaping of Infrastructures and Practices

6 Enabling or Mediating the Social Sciences? The Opportunities and Risks of Bottom-up Innovation

William H. Dutton, and Eric T. Meyer

6.1 An e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences

Rob Procter

6.2 Chinese e–Social Science: A Low-End Approach

Jonathan J. H. Zhu, and Xiaoming Li

7 Institutional Infrastructures for Global Research Networks in the Public Sector

Paul A. David, and Michael Spence

7.1 Ownership of Medical Images in e-Science Collaborations: Learning from the Diagnostic Mammography National Database

Tina Piper, and David Vaver

7.2 The Value of Authorship in the Digital Environment: Producing and Protecting Scientific Information

Justine Pila

8 The Politics of Privacy, Confidentiality, and Ethics : Opening Research Methods

William H. Dutton, and Tina Piper

8.1 Ethical and Moral Dimensions of e-Research

Michael Parker

8.2 Data Sharing in Genomics—Is It Lawful?

Jane Kaye

8.3 Protecting Confidentiality

Julia Lane

IV Implications for Research

9 The Changing Disciplinary Landscapes of Research

Jenny Fry, and Ralph Schroeder

9.1 The Agenda-Setting Role of e-Research

Paul Wouters

10 Reshaping Research Collaboration: The Case of Virtual Research Environments

Annamaria Carusi, and Marina Jirotka

10.1 The Future of Virtual Research Environments

Matthew Dovey

11 Will e-Science Be Open Science?

Paul A. David, Matthijs den Besten, and Ralph Schroeder

11.1 The Politics of Open Access

Gustavo Cardoso, João Caraça, Rita Espanha, and Sandro Mendonça

11.2 Open Access versus “Open Viewing” for a Web of Science: The Neurocommons Example

John Wilbanks, and Hal Abelson

12 Shaping Research in Developing Areas

Marcus Antonius Ynalvez, Ricardo B. Duque, and Wesley Shrum

Coda: The Ends and Means of World Wide Research

William H. Dutton, and Paul W. Jeffreys

End Matter

Glossary

Abbreviations

Index