ABSTRACT

No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where 'e-research' has become the modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with differences in accent and label. Many suggest that the very essence of scholarship in these areas is changing. The everyday procedures and practices of traditional forms of scholarship are affected by these and other features of e-research. This volume, which features renowned scholars from across the globe who are active in the social sciences and humanities, provides critical reflection on the overall emergence of e-research, particularly on its adoption and adaptation by the social sciences and humanities.

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Part I Introduction

chapter 1|30 pages

The Contours and Challenges of e-Research

ByNICHOLAS W. JANKOWSKI

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Part II Conceptualization

chapter 2|19 pages

Towards a Sociology of e-Research: Shaping Practice and Advancing Knowledge

ByJENNY FRY, RALPH SCHROEDER

chapter 3|17 pages

e-Research as Intervention

ByANNE BEAULIEU, PAUL WOUTERS

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Part III Development

chapter 4|18 pages

Developing the UK-based e-Social Science Research Program

ByPETER HALFPENNY, ROB PROCTER, YU-WEI LIN AND ALEX VOSS

chapter 5|18 pages

e-Research and Scholarly Community in the Humanities

ByPAUL GENONI, HELEN MERRICK, MICHELE WILLSON

part |2 pages

Part V Visualization

chapter 9|19 pages

Visualization in e-Social Science

ByMIKE THELWALL

chapter 10|21 pages

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Questions: Visualization Techniques for Social Science Discovery in Computational Spaces

ByHOWARD T. WELSER, THOMAS M. LENTO, MARC A. SMITH, ERIC GLEAVE

part |2 pages

Part VI Data Preservation and Reuse

chapter 11|17 pages

Web Archiving as e-Research

BySTEVEN M. SCHNEIDER, KIRSTEN A. FOOT, PAUL WOUTERS

chapter 12|18 pages

The Promise of Data in e-Research: Many Challenges, Multiple Solutions, Diverse Outcomes

ByANN ZIMMERMAN, NATHAN BOS, JUDITH S. OLSON, GARY M. OLSON

chapter 13|17 pages

Naming, Documenting and Contributing to e-Science

BySAMUELLE CARLSON, BEN ANDERSON

part |2 pages

Part VII Access and Intellectual Property

chapter 14|14 pages

Open Access to e-Research

ByROBERT LUCAS, JOHN WILLINSKY

chapter 15|16 pages

Intellectual Property in the Context of e-Science

ByDAN L. BURK

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Part VIII Case Studies

chapter 16|19 pages

Situated Innovations in e-Social Science

ByBRIDGETTE WESSELS, MAX CRAGLIA

chapter 17|19 pages

Wikipedia As Distributed Knowledge Laboratory: The Case Of Neoliberalism

ByCLIFFORD TATUM, MICHELLE LAFRANCE