Disappearing Disciplinary Borders in theSocial Sciences: Data Acquisition-Acess-Management

Stiles, John and Libby Stephenson

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Title

Disappearing Disciplinary Borders in theSocial Sciences: Data Acquisition-Acess-Management

Author(s)

Stiles, John and Libby Stephenson

Issue Date

2008-08

Keyword(s)

• Data management
• Bibliographic control
• Delivery of information
• Information Dissemination
• social science

Abstract

Quantitative approaches in social science research often focus on a cross-national perspective requiring the use of data from many different nations. Such research also tends to bring together researchers from different disciplines; sociology, geography, political science, economics and so forth. Disciplines tend to emerge around or become defined by shared practices/methods/content specialization. Support of research through the provision of discovery, access, collection, preservation, analytic tools and collaborative environments by data archives and libraries mirror many aspects of the divisions of geography and academic discipline toward which that support is directed. However, the boundaries between disciplines and institutional support settings differ in permeability - the extent to which people, goods, methods, and concepts flow across unimpeded - and can strengthen, weaken or disappear over time as these flows transform the settings in which they operate.

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

• International Federation of Library Associations
• University of Toronto, Library
• University of Toronto, Faculty of Information
• University of Illinois, Library
• Title VI National Resource Center Grant (P015A060066)

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