AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Byline: kthomas
Researchers bow to the social web
Kim Thomas
More than 50% of academics believe that social applications will play a key role in shaping research workflow, according to a survey.
The international survey of nearly 2,000 academics and government contacts across a range of disciplines found that a quarter of respondents were already using social applications for finding jobs, while 23% thought social media applications would have a "major influence" on grant application and funding within the next five years.
The research was undertaken by 2collab (www.2collab.com), Elsevier's academic collaboration platform.
It found that respondents in the 25-44 age group were already making heavy use of social media applications and would continue to use them for professional networking, research collaboration and career development.
Source: HighBeam Research, Researchers bow to the social web.