Scholarship in the digital age: information, infrastructure, and the Internet

Awarded 2008 Best Information Science Book by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).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...