The Information “explosion”
“Scientists now read 25 per cent more articles from almost twice as many journals than they did six years ago“…
It is an ongoing challenge for them to keep up-to-date on research developments in their field, and identify relevant research to support their own studies without spending too much time gathering irrelevant information. One solution to this is a combination of accurate information sourcing and sharing, resulting in ‘collective intelligence’..
The full-article, mentioning the social bookmarking service 2collab, from Elsevier:
http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=179
