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The Internet revolution in the sciences and humanities /
In The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities, Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon capture and analyze the work of a small army of innovative scholars and scientists, all of whom have exploited the opportunities the Internet affords, to share with colleagues claims to new knowledge with s...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Internet Revolution inthe Sciences and Humanities; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Videos on Companion Website; About the Companion Website and Endnotes; Acknowledgments; 1. The Internet and the Two Cultures; Ideal Types; The Scientific Culture and Scientist as Ideal Type; The Humanistic Culture and Humanist as Ideal Type; The Sciences and Humanities Transformed; The Book Itself; The Audience; 2. The Internet Scientific Article:Reshaping Verbal and Visual Communication; Revolution or Evolution?; A Survey of the Web Article; Increasing Accessibility
- The Changing Nature of AuthorshipCoping with Complexity; Increasing Inter- and Intra-textuality; Including Reader Comments and Reader Statistics; Enhancing Visualization; Internet Visualization and the Science of Shape; Birth of a Science of Shape; The Mathematical Visualization of Shape; Science of Shape and the Internet; Conclusion; 3. Internet Humanities Essays and Books:Seeing and Hearing Anew; Internet Innovation and the Humanities Essay; Historians See Anew; Photographs as Historical Evidence; Art as Historical Evidence; Reinterpreting the Civil War:The Role of Visualization
- Meeting the Challenge of Urban History:AMultimedia Los AngelesReimagining the Roman Forum:Vision as Hypothesis; Musicians See and Hear Anew; Film Scholars See Anew; Conclusion; 4. Archival Websites in the Humanities and Sciences; Websites that Provide Resources for Scholarship; Websites that Store Data for Scientific Research; Websites that Store Scientific or Scholarly Papers; Websites that Create Knowledge Through Volunteer Participation; Websites that Codify Existing Knowledge; Conclusion; 5. Evaluation Before Publication:Opening up Peer Review; The Case for and Against Peer Review
- Argument Theory and Peer ReviewTheory Application; Open Internet Peer Review in the Sciences; Open Internet Peer Review in the Humanities; Peer Sourcing:The Wave of the Future?; Conclusion; 6. Evaluation After Publication:Setting the Record Straight; Watchdog Blogs in the Sciences; What Watchdog Blogs Reveal; How Watchdog Blogs Work; Humanities Post-Peer Review; Postpublication Peer Review:The Article; Postpublication Peer Review:The Book; Conclusion; 7. Overcoming the Obstacles to Internet Exploitation; The Opportunities; Gated Access:The First Obstacle
- Current Tenure Rules:The Second ObstacleDigital Preservation:The Third Obstacle; Patents and Copyright:The Fourth Obstacle; Freedom of Information:The Fifth Obstacle; A Path Forward; Notes; Index