The aims of this study are to answer the following questions: * are social media impacting upon researcher workflows? * if so, how should publishers and librarians respond? * how influential are age and other factors in shaping the demand for social media?

Peer review highly sensitive to poor refereeing, claim researchers

The key to the Alzheimer's project was an agreement as ambitious as its goal: not just to raise money, not just to do research on a vast scale, but also to share all the data, making every single finding public immediately, available to anyone with a computer anywhere in the world.

The Growth of 'Citizen Science' "Big data" is changing the sciences as well as the humanities (The Chronicle, June 4). We asked three experts to comment on the phenomenon. Here are their responses:

In the June 4 issue, The Chronicle published an article on what Google Books could mean for researchers. We asked some leading scholars to comment on how "big data" will change the humanities. Here are their responses: