This week in the United States there was a new President inaugurated – Mr. Barack Obama. This presidency will be striking for many, many things. One of those is the use of Web 2.0 technology not only by Obama’s White House, but also by political activists and political pundits. Already the White House web page [...]

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A recent report by CMS Watch (http://www.cmswatch.com/About/Press/ESSCR0109/) shows
enterprise use cases (e.g. LinkedIn) maturing faster than social computing platforms (e.g. Facebook).   While Facebook and other social networking sites have a higher fun factor, professional networking sites are increasingly in popularity among enterprise users.  “LinkedIn outperformed Facebook in CMS Watch’s “Professional Networking” and “Community of Practice” [...]

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The last decade has seen increased offshoring of research from developed countries to developing countries, most specifically in China and India. With an expanding population of trained scientists, lower wages, and an improving infrastructure, China and India in particular, present opportunities for companies in developed countries to outsource their research and innovation.
A study, co-authored by [...]

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Firms that conduct research involving multiple researchers collaborate using different approaches. At one end of the scale, many smaller companies exchange research documents via email attachments, while at take other end, firms use expensive, sophisticated custom-built software to manage large-scale research projects that may span multiple countries.
Research via email attachments may be the cheapest option, [...]

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CALL FOR CHAPTERS:
Title: “E-Research Collaboration: Frameworks, Tools and Techniques”
Co-Editors:
Murugan Anandarajan, Ph.D., Drexel University, ma33@drexel.edu
Asokan Anandarajan, Ph.D.,New Jersey Institute of Technology, asokan.anandarajan@njit.edu
Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg
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FOCUS OF THIS BOOK
E-Research Collaboration can be defined as the use of information communication technologies which enable the collaboration among individuals/group engaged in a research project.  These technologies can range from email [...]

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