"Dr Eric T. Meyer is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford, UK.At OII, Meyer studies the social implications of e-science and e-social science as part of the Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS) project. He brings an understanding of scientific collaboration from both sides: as a social scientist studying scientific behavior, and as a participant in the production of scientific knowledge. For ten years prior to joining OII, he was the national (USA) data manager and a researcher working within a large scientific collaboration spanning twelve universities studying the genetic causes of mental health disorders. Meyer earned his PhD in Information Science from Indiana University in 2007. His dissertation, which has been named the 2008 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation of the Year, examined how marine biologists who rely on photographic evidence to identify individual marine mammals have seen significant changes in their everyday work practices as they switched from film photography to digital photography. He has also written papers and presented at conferences on various aspects of digital photography from a social informatics perspective."

slide 17 has good graph of data deluge

"In the age of the Internet, the ways you share and use academic research results are changing — rapidly, fundamentally, irreversibly. There’s great potential in change. After all, faster and wider sharing of journal articles, research data, simulations, syntheses, analyses, and other findings fuels the advance of knowledge. It’s a two-way street — sharing research benefits you and others. But will the promise of digital scholarship be fully realized? How will yesterday’s norms adapt to tomorrow’s possibilities? This website will help you understand the changing landscape and how it affects you and your research. It also offers practical ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher. A scholarly revolution is underway. It enables you to get a greater return from your research. All you have to do is share it."

More good comparisons for the CPI/journal prices graph -- idea from UCOSC via Sukhdev Singh slideshare

Bryman, A. (2007). Barriers to integrating quantitative and qualitative research. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1(1), 8-22. doi:10.1177/2345678906290531 Creswell, J. W. (2003). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method approaches (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (find in a library) Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative research & evaluation methods (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (find in a library) Teddlie, C., & Tashakkori, A. (2009). Foundations of mixed methods research :Integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches in the social and behavioral sciences. Los Angeles: Sage. (find in a library)

Some of these are hilarious.