CALL FOR CHAPTERS:
Title: "E-Research Collaboration: Frameworks, Tools and Techniques"

Co-Editors:
Murugan Anandarajan, Ph.D., Drexel University, ma33@...
Asokan Anandarajan, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology,
asokan.anandarajan@@njit.edu

Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg

URL For Chapter Call:
http://www.mynetresearch.com/Resources.aspx?id=%2012
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FOCUS OF THIS BOOK

With advancements of information and communication technologies,
physical boundaries of local social networks have evaporated. Online
social networks replicate and enhance the benefits of traditional social
networks across time and space and accelerate and globalize the process.
The collaboration efforts among researchers in this environment are
called e-research collaboration.

E-Research Collaboration can be defined as: the use of information
communication technologies which enable the collaboration among
individuals/group engaged in a research project. These technologies can
range from email to enterprise packages and online software services.

While we have seen the unprecedented growth of social networking tools
such as MySpace, Facebook and Linkedin, these were primarily designed
for social purposes. It is only in the last year that we have begun to
see the emergence of research-based social networking tools. These
tools, for example, MyNetResearch and 2Collab, can facilitate
collaborative environments to orchestrate interaction within networks of
researchers, partners, and customers to boost creativity and innovation.
E-Research collaboration technologies can supply seamless connectivity
to allow work anywhere and anytime.

The mechanisms of e-research collaboration are an emergent phenomenon.
We invite researchers to submit analytical, case-study, conceptual,
experiential ethnographic or narrative papers to enhance our
understanding of the frameworks, practices and tools and techniques in
e-research collaboration.