2: Tools & Technologies
Develop tools and technologies that better support the scholarly lifecycle Other Information:
Improved knowledge dissemination mechanisms produce information overload -- Scholars have experienced information overload
for more than a century [Vickery, 1999] and the problem is just getting worse. Online access provides much better knowledge
discovery and aggregation tools, but these tools struggle with the fragmentation of research communication caused by the rapid
proliferation of increasingly specialized and overlapping journals, some with decreasing quality of reviewing [Schultz, 2011].
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