"Connecting researchers boosts collective intelligence"

Elsevier's Jay Katzen explains how new research 2.0 tools are helping researchers in Research Information: June / July 2008.

Excerpt:

The increased availability of electronic scientific literature is resulting in a ‘data smog’. Scientists now read 25 per cent more articles from almost twice as many journals than they did six years ago, according to research by Carol Tenopir of the University of Tennessee, USA.