Sustaining the Digital Library : Symposium, 13-14 September 2007. The Digital Road to Scientific Knowledge Diffusion: A Faster, Be. Introduction With the United States federal government spending over $130 billion annually for research and development, ways to increase the productivity of that research can have a significant return on investment.
It is well known that all scientific advancement is based on work that has come before. Isaac Newton expressed this thought most eloquently in 1676, when he wrote, "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. " The process by which science knowledge is spread is called diffusion. It is therefore important to better understand and measure the benefits of this diffusion of knowledge. Issues Newsletter. Subject: CLIR Issues CLIRissues CLIR newsletter newsletter Number 58 • July/August 2007 Digital Scholarship: What's All the Fuss?
By Stephen Nichols. MyOpenLibrary.