The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities

Alan G. Gross work is firmly grounded in the humanities, having been trained as a Shakespeare scholar at Princeton under Gerald Eades Bentley. In a long career, he has been an English professor at Wayne State, a Dean at Purdue-Calumet, and professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. In the last quarter-century, he has written and co-written a steady stream of major-press books on academic communication.Joseph E. Harmon works as a science writer, editor, and manager at Argonne National Laboratory. He is the coauthor with Alan Gross of Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present, The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour, The Craft of Scientific Communication, and Science from Sight to Insight: How Scientists Illustrate Meaning.

• Table of Contents About the Companion Website Chapter 1: The Internet and the Two Cultures Ideal TypesThe Scientific Culture and Scientist as Ideal TypeThe Humanistic Culture and Humanist as Ideal TypeThe Sciences and Humanities TransformedThe Book ItselfThe Audience Chapter 2: The Scientific Article: What's NewRevolution or Evolution?A Survey of the Web ArticleIncreasing AccessibilityThe Changing Nature of AuthorshipCoping with ComplexityIncreasing Inter- and Intra-textualityIncluding Reader Comments and Reader StatisticsEnhancing VisualizationInternet Visualization and the Science of ShapeBirth of a Science of ShapeThe Mathematical Visualization of ShapeScience of Shape and the InternetConclusion Chapter 3: The Internet Humanities Essay: Seeing and Hearing AnewHistorians See AnewPhotographs as Historical EvidenceArt as Historical EvidenceReinterpreting the Civil War: The Role of VisualizationMeeting the Challenge of Urban History: A Multi-Media Los AngelesRe-imagining the Roman Forum: Vision as HypothesisMusicians See and Hear AnewFilm Scholars See AnewConclusion Chapter 4: Archival Web Sites in the Humanities and SciencesWeb Sites That Provide Resources for ScholarshipWeb Sites That Store Data for Scientific ResearchWeb Sites That Store Scientific or Scholarly PapersWeb Sites That Create Knowledge Through Volunteer ParticipationWeb Sites That Codify Existing KnowledgeConclusion Chapter 5: Evaluation before Publication: Opening up Peer ReviewThe Case for and against Peer ReviewArgument Theory and Peer ReviewTheory ApplicationOpen Internet Peer Review in the SciencesOpen Internet Peer Review in the HumanitiesPeer Sourcing: The Wave of the Future?Conclusion Chapter 6: Evaluation after Publication: Setting the Record StraightScience BlogsWhat Science Blogs RevealHow Science Blogs WorkHumanities Post-Peer ReviewPost-Publication Peer Review: The ArticlePost-Publication Peer Review: The BookConclusion Chapter 7: Overcoming the Obstacles to Internet ExploitationThe OpportunitiesGated Access: The First ObstacleCurrent Tenure Rules: The Second ObstacleDigital Preservation: The Third ObstaclePatents and Copyright: The Fourth ObstacleFreedom of Information: The Fifth ObstacleA Path Forward

"The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities presents a broadly well-conceived comparison between two traditions of academic enquiry. The book is at its strongest when it lays out the ways in which the major asymmetries between how these two fields differ from one another in their use of the Internet." -- Internet Histories"While it is true that readers must turn to the companion websiteto see in action some of the Internet features the authors describe, the fact that readers can follow and appreciate the authors thesis without having recourse to the website shows why the traditional print monograph is a durable, serviceable, and often sufficient vehicle for scholarship, even when that scholarship makes a compelling case for its reinvention." -- Journal of Scholarly Publishing"Gross and Harmon s The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and the Humanities is not a time-stamped review of content on the Internet, which would be out of date within a month of publication. Instead, it is a rich assessment of what the Internet has and, more importantly, can achieve in the communication and evaluation of scholarly knowledge." -- Metascience