Foreword by Ian Goldin ......................................... ix
Preface ........................................................ xi
Acknowledgments .............................................. xiii
Contributors ................................................... xv
World Wide Research: An Introduction ............................ 1
William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys
I Foundations ................................................. 19
1 Reconfiguring Access in Research: Information, Expertise,
and Experience
William H. Dutton
1.1 The Long Now of Cyberinfrastructure .................... 40
Geoffrey C. Bowker, Paul N. Edwards, Steven
J. Jackson, and Cory P. Knobel
1.2 Identifying Winners and Losers: The Role of
Webometrics ............................................ 45
Mike Thelwall
1.3 "Superstar" Concentrations of Scientific Output and
Recognition ............................................ 48
Robert Ackland
2 The Developing Conception of e-Research ..................... 51
Paul W. Jeffreys
2.1 Research Platforms in the Cloud ........................ 67
Tony Hey, Roger Barga, and Savas Parastatidis
2.2 The New e-Research ..................................... 72
David De Roure
2.3 The Promises and Threats of e-Research in the
Strategies of Firms and Nations ........................ 75
John Taylor
II State of the Practice ...................................... 79
3 Digital Resources and the Future of Libraries ............... 83
Eric T. Meyer, Christine Madsen, and Jenny Fry
3.1 Data Webs for Image Repositories ....................... 98
David Shotton
3.2 Digital Technology and Ancient Manuscripts ............ 102
Alan Bowman
4 Key Digital Technologies to Deal with Data ................. 107
Yorick Wilks and Matthijs den Besten
4.1 Embedded Networked Sensing ............................ 120
Christine L. Borgman
4.2 Identifying Digital Objects ........................... 125
Michael A. Fraser
4.3 Use of the Semantic Web in e-Research ................. 130
Kieron O'Hara, Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, and
Nigel Shadbolt
5 Embedding e-Research Applications: Designing for
Usability .................................................. 135
Grace de la Flor, Marina Jirotka, Sharon Lloyd, and
Andrew Warr
5.1 Trusted Computing Platforms ........................... 153
Andrew Martin
5.2 Social Networking and e-Research ...................... 157
Mike Thelwall
III Social Shaping of Infrastructures and Practices ........... 161
6 Enabling or Mediating the Social Sciences? The
Opportunities and Risks of Bottom-up Innovation ............ 165
William H. Dutton and Eric T. Meyer
6.1 An e-infrastructure for the Social Sciences ........... 185
Rob Procter
6.2 Chinese e-Social Science: A Low-End Approach .......... 188
Jonathan J.H. Zhu and Xiaoming Li
7 Institutional Infrastructures for Global Research
Networks in the Public Sector .............................. 191
Paul A. David and Michael Spence
7.1 Ownership of Medical Images in e-Science
Collaborations: Learning from the Diagnostic
Mammography National Database ......................... 214
Tina Piper and David Vaver
7.2 The Value of Authorship in the Digital Environment:
Producing and Protecting Scientific Information ....... 218
Justine Pila
8 The Politics of Privacy, Confidentiality, and Ethics:
Opening Research Methods ................................... 223
William H. Dutton and Tina Piper
8.1 Ethical and Moral Dimensions of e-Research ............ 241
Michael Parker
8.2 Data Sharing in Genomics - Is It Lawful? .............. 245
Jane Kaye
8.3 Protecting Confidentiality ............................ 249
Julia Lane
IV Implications for Research ................................. 253
9 The Changing Disciplinary Landscapes of Research ........... 257
Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder
9.1 The Agenda-Setting Role of e-Research ................. 272
Paul Wouters
10 Reshaping Research Collaboration: The Case of Virtual
Research Environments ...................................... 277
Annamaria Carusi and Marina Jirotka
10.1 The Future of Virtual Research Environments ........... 295
Matthew Dovey
11 Will e-Science Be Open Science? ............................ 299
Paul A. David, Matthijs den Besten, and Ralph Schroeder
11.1 The Politics of Open Access ........................... 317
Gustavo Cardoso, João Caraça, Rita Espanha, and
Sandro Mendonça
11.2 Open Access versus "Open Viewing" for a Web of
Science: The Neurocommons Example ..................... 322
John Wilbanks and Hal Abelson
12 Shaping Research in Developing Areas ....................... 325
Marcus Antonius Ynalvez, Ricardo В. Duque, and Wesley
Shrum
Coda: The Ends and Means of World Wide Research ............ 343
William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys
Glossary ...................................................... 349
Abbreviations ................................................. 355
Index ......................................................... 357
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