Can the Research Web serve the social science research community?
Social science progresses through the processes of description and argumentation in the literature. At this point in history, the literature is a body of publications recorded in books and an immense number of journals, some highly respected, others highly suspect. There are several units of scientific knowledge: the book, the research paper, reviews, brevia, letters to the editor, reports and other member of a broad class of poorly indexed literature called gray literature. To that literature, add the WWW, popular press and other unreviewed documents. The Research Webs team has access to all of this material, just as do conventional teams. In the RW, however, the literature is cataloged in a corporate bibliography, the Annotated HyperBibliography (AHB), in a format that can be annotated by any member of the research team. This cataloging adds an additional layer of peer review. In addition to the core literature, the RW team, because of its interdisciplinary nature, captures literatur
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