Acknowledgments ............................................... vii
List of Abbreviations .......................................... ix
List of Illustrations .......................................... xi
1 A Digital Research Revolution? ............................... 1
2 Conceptualizing e-Research .................................. 23
3 The Rise of Digital Research ................................ 45
4 Aggregating People and Machines: Collaborative Computation .. 69
5 Distributed Data ............................................ 95
6 Digital Research across the Disciplines: The Sciences and
Social Sciences ............................................ 125
7 Digital Research across the Disciplines: Humanities and
Access to Knowledge ........................................ 147
8 Open Science ............................................... 175
9 Limits of e-Research ....................................... 187
10 Knowledge Machines ......................................... 197
Notes ......................................................... 225
References .................................................... 237
Index ......................................................... 263
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