University of Chicago sociologist James Evans reports on a massive study that suggests that," as scientists use more online resources, their reading habits change-- resulting not in more interdisciplinary work that ignores traditional textual and institutional boundaries (the situation imagined by early hypertext reading advocates like George Landow), but rather (as the abstract put it) a "narrowing of science and scholarship:" read more at "Are online databases and journals changing scientists' reading habits?
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