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Reinventing discovery : the new era of networked science

Argues that we are living at the dawn of the dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This title tells the story of an unprecedented new era of networked science.
Print Book, English, 2014
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Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2014
264 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme ; 24 cm
9780691160191, 0691160198
1050700630
Chapter 1:Reinventing Discovery 1 PART 1: AMPLIFYING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 13 Chapter 2: Online Tools Make Us Smarter 15 Chapter 3: Restructuring Expert Attention 22 Chapter 4: Patterns of Online Collaboration 44 Chapter 5: The Limits and the Potential of Collective Intelligence 69 PART 2: NETWORKED SCIENCE 89 Chapter 6: All the World's Knowledge 91 Chapter 7: Democratizing Science 129 Chapter 8: The Challenge of Doing Science in the Open 172 Chapter 9: The Open Science Imperative 187 Appendix: The Problem Solved by the Polymath Project 209 Acknowledgments 215 Selected Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading 217 Notes 221 References 239 Index 255
Originally published: 2012. - Includes bibliographical references and index