My research focuses on understanding the collective production of scientific knowledge, in particular practices of collaboration and communication in the sciences. How do collaborative and communicative practices differ across disciplines and research fields? How do such differences play out in the adoption of new web-based technologies to support collaboration and communication? And how do they affect the realization of visions of openness and web-based sharing of scientific knowledge as put forward in the Berlin Declaration on Open Access?
To provide an empirical basis for addressing these research questions I combine qualitative and quantitative research methods. The goal is to connect nuanced, local understandings of practices with insights into field-level collective patterns of behavior. To this end I am integrating ethnographic methods with network analytic methods applied to medium and large-scale publication networks.
Theresa Velden
Email tav6[AT]cornell.edu
Information Science, Cornell University
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Ithaca, NY 14850-4623