SCIENCE AND SCHOLARSHIP ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB: A NORTH AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Documentation
- Vol. 52 (2) , 163-171
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026965
Abstract
The potential significance of the World Wide Web for science and scholarship is analysed from informational, communication, and behavioural perspectives. Key factors to be taken into account are (i) scale, (ii) cost, (iii) conviviality, (iv) community, and (v) legitimacy. It is argued that the Web will have a transformative effect on the way scientists and scholars access information and present the results of their research to globally distributed peer communitiesKeywords
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