Fostering the human infrastructure of e-research

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1668-1691

  Procter, Rob ^a   Voss, Alex ^b   Asgari Targhi, Marzieh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

e Infrastructure; e Research; embedding; human infrastructure; organizations; technology supply

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885042502     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.715667     Document Type: Article

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