Material mastery: situation digital library use in university research practices
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on progress toward digital libraries
Genres and the Web: is the personal home page the first uniquely digital genre?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
A bit more to it: scholarly communication forums as socio-technical interaction networks
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Scholarly work and the shaping of digital access: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Scholarly research and information practices: a domain analytic approach
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
The role of the Internet in informal scholarly communication: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Working group reports on ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Computing research methods multi-perspective digital library: a call for participation
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Quality of information in academic e-mailing lists
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Explaining field differences in openness and sharing in scientific communities
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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This paper looks at disciplinary differences in the production, relevance, and use of three predominant genres of informal scholarly communication on the internet: academic mailing lists; scholarly homepages, and scholar-produced decentralized digital resources. The aim is to contribute to the development of a theoretical framework for understanding and explaining disciplinary differences in the shaping of networked resources. We apply Whitley's theory of the intellectual and social organization of academic fields to explain variation in forms and types of digital resources across fields. The paper extends Whitley's theory by applying his key domain analytic concepts 'task uncertainty' and 'mutual dependence' to explain scholarly communication practices in the digital realm. The empirical data spans seven intellectual fields across the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences. The analysis shows that, while there are similarities in the scholarly production of information genres on the internet, Whitley's theory helps in identifying and understanding the diversity and heterogeneity of electronic communication fora across fields.