Category: books
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The Case for Books; Past Present and Future
I am back in Melbourne now and normal viewing will resume once when I find my feet. In the mean time, here is a new book from the cultural historian, Robert Darnton who has recently taken up the post as Librarian at Harvard University. “In The Case for Books, Robert Darnton offers an in-depth examination…
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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery
‘Presenting the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science’ Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers manipulate and explore massive datasets. The speed at which any given scientific discipline advances will depend on how well its researchers collaborate with one another, and with technologists, in areas…
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Scientific Collaborations on the Internet
(A fantastic book for e-Science buffs!) Modern science is increasingly collaborative, as signaled by rising numbers of coauthored papers, papers with international coauthors, and multi-investigator grants. Historically, scientific collaborations were carried out by scientists in the same physical location—the Manhattan Project of the 1940s, for example, involved thousands of scientists gathered on a remote plateau…
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New Book: World Wide Web of Research
A new book will be released soon titled: World Wide Web of Reseach: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities (Cambridge; the MIT Press). It is edited by Bill Dutton and Paul Jeffreys, both of Oxford. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) whilst Paul Jeffreys is Director of IT at Oxford. I believe the…
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New Book: Digital Scholarship
A interesting new book on Digital Scholarship was released in December called ‘Digital Scholarship’; edited by Marta Mestrovic Deyrup. I haven’t ordered, read, and reviewed this book as yet (it doesn’t come cheap at 57 pounds). What I see as one of the grand challenges of digital resources and scholarship is developing an explicit understanding…
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Information, Communication, and Society Webcasts
In collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, the editors of the academic peer-reviewed journal Information, Communication, and Society have been producing and archiving webcasts featuring the author(s) of the lead article of selected issues. (check them out…link)