The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research

An OA book of essays published by Microsoft under a CC-BY-SA license: _In The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery_. From the blurb: "The collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized." See esp. Part 4, "Scholarly Communication" with articles by Lee Dirks, Clifford Lynch, Paul Ginsparg, Herbert Van de Sompel, Carl Lagoze, Anne Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, Kylie Pappalardo, John Wilbanks, and Timo Hannay. For more on the late Jim Gray's vision of data-intensive science, see .