Publikacje elektroniczne a zawężenie obszaru poszukiwań nauki i wiedzy
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2008
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Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Poznaniu
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Electronic publication and the narrowing of science and scholarship
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Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and
are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently
than print - scientists and scholars tend to search electronically and follow hyperlinks
rather than browse or peruse - electronically available journals may portend
an ironic change for science. Using a database of 34 million articles, their citations
(1945 to 2005), and online availability (1998 to 2005), I show that as more
journal issues came online, the articles referenced tended to be more recent, fewer
journals and articles were cited, and more of those citations were to fewer journals
and articles. The forced browsing of print archives may have stretched scientists
and scholars to anchor findings deeply into past and present scholarship. Searching
online is more efficient and following hyperlinks quickly puts researchers in touch
with prevailing opinion, but this may accelerate consensus and narrow the range of
findings and ideas built upon.
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Biblioteka nr 12 (21), 2008, s. 165-179.
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0551-6579