Web 2 . 0 and Scholarly Communication
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We examine the ways in which Web 2.0 tools and services – including blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and tagging, social networking and data interoperability and re-use – are affecting scholarly communication, with examples and usage data where available. We find that many of the tools have yet to live up to their early promise and the expectations that rode on them, and discuss the possible reasons for this.
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