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Communication By Engineers: An Analysis Of The Literature Focusing On 1994 Through May 2001., Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
Communication By Engineers: An Analysis Of The Literature Focusing On 1994 Through May 2001., Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
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Scientists' Use Of Journals: Differences (And Similarities) Between Print And Electronic, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King, Randy Hoffman, Elizabeth Mcsween, Christopher Ryland, Erin Smith
Scientists' Use Of Journals: Differences (And Similarities) Between Print And Electronic, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King, Randy Hoffman, Elizabeth Mcsween, Christopher Ryland, Erin Smith
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Studies conducted over the last three decades demonstrate that scientists read widely from scholarly journals. Scientists use these journals primarily for research and current awareness. Reading of scholarly articles has increased to approximately 110 to 120 articles per person per year, and a growing amount of these readings come from preprints and other separate copies. Scientists are also reading a greater percentage of new articles. In fall 2000 we surveyed scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to repeat a survey conducted in 1984. The primary aim of the recent survey was to identify the impact of electronic/ digital journal alternatives …
Community Practice And The Internet, Roger A. Lohmann, John Mcnutt
Community Practice And The Internet, Roger A. Lohmann, John Mcnutt
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
This article examines several developments in electronic technology which appear to hold great potential for advancing human well-being and community organization and have already manifested some important portion of that potential in recent years. They are, in order of presentation, electronic communication and networking, electronic advocacy, fund raising support, geographic information systems and data base management. We conclude this brief article with a brief discussion of information poverty and the growing disparity of information haves and have-nots.
Practice In The Electronic Community, Roger A. Lohmann, John Mcnutt
Practice In The Electronic Community, Roger A. Lohmann, John Mcnutt
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
The Internet was at its inception a commons rather than a marketplace. Increasingly, however, communitarian notions have been overwhelmed by the internet as one huge shopping arcade. The potential is certainly there for this amazing technology to advance the causes of human freedom well-being and community. At the same time, however, this powerful set of technologies that in less than a decade have become nearly universal in scope and sweep, have the potential also to become simply another extension of the global economic marketplace. Far worse, there is also the potential to become a power tool for class domination or …