How can academic libraries go beyond e-Science: The emergence of the new contribution-recognition system

✍ Scribed by Min-Chun Ku

• Book ID: 102507091
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 66 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-7870
• DOI: 10.1002/meet.2009.1450460339

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This poster aims at exploring how academic libraries can help shape the development of e‐Science and facilitate scholarship. It first discusses the problems that the e‐Science community is facing. This poster then argues that the issues emerged in the e‐Science practice will drive the need for a new contribution‐recognition system that reflects the accumulative, social and collaborative characteristics of science, and recognizes the values of various types of expertise to e‐Science and human knowledge. Finally, it proposes directions of how academic libraries can actively ground themselves in everyday research practice and shape the e‐Science revolution by providing new research data and information services based on the new contribution‐recognition system that encourages, documents, traces, and recognizes the contribution of different types of participation.