The Digital Road to Scientific Knowledge Diffusion; A Faster, Better Way to Scientific Progress?
With the United States federal government spending billions annually for research and development, ways to increase the productivity of that research can have a significant return on investment. The process by which science knowledge is spread is called diffusion. It is therefore important to better understand and measure the benefits of this diffusion of knowledge. In particular, it is important to understand whether advances in Internet searching can speed up the diffusion of scientific knowledge and accelerate scientific progress despite the fact that the vast majority of scientific information resources continue to be held in deep web databases that many search engines cannot fully access. To address the complexity of the search issue, the term global discovery is used for the act of searching across heterogeneous environments and distant communities. This article discusses these issues and describes research being conducted by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
- Research Organization:
- Office of Scientific and Technical Information
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 902122
- Journal Information:
- D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 12, Issue 6; ISSN 1082-9873
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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