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1. Scholarship in networked participatory environment -- 1.1 Scholarship and digital scholarship -- 1.1.1 Scholarship, scholar activities, and ICT influence on scholarship -- 1.1.2 Digital scholarship -- 1.2 Scholarly collaboration -- 1.2.1 Definition of scholarly collaboration -- 1.2.2 Scholarly collaboration on the social web -- 1.2.3 Factors for successful scholarly collaboration on the social web -- 1.3 Summary --

2. Technology readiness for social scholarly collaboration -- 2.1 Functional block for establishing scholars' online identity -- 2.1.1 The function for supporting research tasks -- 2.1.2 Developing profile and reputation -- 2.1.3 Registering scholarly work -- 2.2 Functional block for collaborating with peer scholars -- 2.2.1 Developing relationship -- 2.2.2 Grouping and co-production -- 2.2.3 Information exchange -- 2.2.4 Building conversations -- 2.3 Mechanisms for engaging general public -- 2.3.1 Crowdsourcing platforms -- 2.3.2 Crowdfunding platforms -- 2.3.3 Citizen science platforms -- 2.4 Summary --

3. Coupling work for social scholarly collaboration -- 3.1 Overview of coupling work -- 3.2 Stages and collaboration in research process -- 3.2.1 Collaboration in the conceptualization stage -- 3.2.2 Collaboration in the design stage -- 3.2.3 Collaboration in the execution stage -- 3.2.4 Collaboration in the dissemination stage -- 3.3 Coupling academic tasks on the social web -- 3.3.1 Coupling work in the dissemination stage on the social web -- 3.3.2 Coupling work in the conceptualization stage on the social web -- 3.3.3 Coupling work in the design stage on the social web -- 3.3.4 Coupling work in the execution stage on the social web -- 3.4 Factors affecting scholarly collaboration tasks on the social web -- 3.5 Summary --

4. Common ground for social scholarly collaboration -- 4.1 Common ground in collaboration -- 4.2 Important roles of scholars' online profiles -- 4.3 Collaboration behaviors for recording past experience -- 4.4 Collaborative behaviors for building shared knowledge -- 4.5 Collaborative behaviors for sharing common beliefs and assumptions in management -- 4.6 Summary --

5. Collaboration readiness for social scholarly collaboration -- 5.1 Factors affecting collaboration readiness -- 5.2 Influences by scholars' own characteristics -- 5.2.1 Demographics -- 5.2.2 Disciplines -- 5.3 Extrinsic and intrinsic motivations of social scholarly collaborations -- 5.3.1 Extrinsic motivations -- 5.3.2 Intrinsic motivationS -- 5.4 Influences of incentives for social scholarly collaboration -- 5.4.1 Incentives on academic social platforms -- 5.4.2 Lack of incentives outside of the social web --

6. Discussions and conclusions -- 6.1 Implications -- 6.1.1 Scholarly collaboration activities -- 6.1.2 Academic social web platforms -- 6.1.3 Content management and reuse on the academic social web -- 6.2 Limitations -- 6.3 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Authors' biographies.

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Collaboration among scholars has always been recognized as a fundamental feature of scientific discovery. The ever-increasing diversity among disciplines and complexity of research problems makes it even more compelling to collaborate in order to keep up with the fast pace of innovation and advance knowledge. Along with the rapidly developing Internet communication technologies and the increasing popularity of the social web, we have observed many important developments of scholarly collaboration on the academic social web. In this book, we review the rapid transformation of scholarly collaboration on various academic social web platforms and examine how these platforms have facilitated academics throughout their research lifecycle.from forming ideas, collecting data, and authoring articles to disseminating findings. We refer to the term "academic social web platforms" in this book as a category of Web 2.0 tools or online platforms (such as CiteULike, Mendeley, Academia.edu, and ResearchGate) that enable and facilitate scholarly information exchange and participation. We will also examine scholarly collaboration behaviors including sharing academic resources, exchanging opinions, following each other's research, keeping up with current research trends, and, most importantly, building up their professional networks. Inspired by the model developed by Olson et al. [2000] on factors for successful scientific collaboration, our examination of the status of scholarly collaboration on the academic social web has four emphases: technology readiness, coupling work, building common ground, and collaboration readiness. Finally, we talk about the insights and challenges of all these online scholarly collaboration activities imposed on the research communities who are engaging in supporting online scholarly collaboration. This book aims to help researchers and practitioners understand the development of scholarly collaboration on the academic social web, and to build up an active community of scholars who are interested in this topic.

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