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An exploration of the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the scholarly infrastructure needed to support research activities in all fields in the twenty-first century.Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy changes that will have the most lasting effect on the scholarly enterprise. In Scholarship in the Digital Age, Christine Borgman explores the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the kind of infrastructure that we should be building for scholarly research in the twenty-first century.Borgman describes the roles that information technology plays at every stage in the life cycle of a research project and contrasts these new capabilities with the relatively stable system of scholarly communication, which remains based on publishing in journals, books, and conference proceedings. No framework for the impen

Who reads Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (The MIT Press)?

Author

Christine L. Borgman

Publisher

The MIT Press; MIT Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262255783

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Computer Science

Rating

2.97 / 5 (102 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14