Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- World Wide Research : An Introduction -- I Foundations -- 1 Reconfiguring Access in Research -- 2 The Developing Conception of e-Research -- II State of the Practice -- 3 Digital Resources and the Future of Libraries -- 4 Key Digital Technologies to Deal with Data -- 5 Embedding e-Research Applications -- III Social Shaping of Infrastructures and Practices -- 6 Enabling or Mediating the Social Sciences? -- 7 Institutional Infrastructures for Global Research Networks in the Public Sector -- 8 The Politics of Privacy, Confidentiality, and Ethics -- IV Implications for Research -- 9 The Changing Disciplinary Landscapes of Research -- 10 Reshaping Research Collaboration -- 11 Will e-Science Be Open Science? -- 12 Shaping Research in Developing Areas -- Coda: The Ends and Means of World Wide Research -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Index.