E-RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

E-research And the Management of the Knowledge Gained through Research in Universities or Other Institutions

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E-research And the Management of the Knowledge Gained through Research in Universities or Other Institutions

Introduction

The term of knowledge management emerged in the early '90s, since than it has become very popular. In recent times the concept of knowledge management has gained much importance as a set of processes that direct analysis, dissemination, use and transfer of experiences, information and knowledge among all members of an organization to create value. It is considered as the task of developing and operating the tangible and intangible resources for an institution, organization to get information. Tangible resources include patents, licenses, information about customers, suppliers, products and competitors, research, etc (Leitner, 2004, pp. 33-51). The intangibles would be the knowledge and experience of the employees, the know-how of the company, etc. However, in recent times the scientific interaction has been emerging and developing through the internet and web services, attractiveness and success of electronic data bases for instance Google Scholar, Science Direct and Scopus have been an evident of this statement (Khatibi , 2012, pp. 35-52). The role of E-research in managing diverse knowledge and deliver it through electronic scientific databases is explained in this paper.

Thesis Statement

The main emphasis of this research paper is to analyze E-research And the Management of the Knowledge Gained through Research in Universities or other Institutions.

Research Aims and Objectives

This research works aims to identify the management of knowledge and information which is supposed to be gathered through research process, following are the objectives of this research work:

To understand the human centric management of knowledge and information (leadership, organizational culture, HR practices)

To identify the tools and systems used (e.g. cataloguing / data collection systems, social networking)

To analyze Frameworks or processes (especially around working in collaboration with different units and organizations e.g. libraries, government agencies)

Review of Literature

The interest of this research is centered on quality management at research organizations as establishments devoted to the production of knowledge. It is important to study the issues of knowledge management while being based on the management of information and to try to find ways of improvement. However, knowledge management is not indiscriminate flow of information across an organization, since the information is simply a set of data (Wild, 2002, pp. 371-380)

. On the contrary, knowledge, learning, involves debugging and adds value to information and facilitates in arriving at a solution or decision in a real situation, interpreting the data in context. Knowledge differs from information through actions and applications (Ermine, n.d., pp293 - 306). Therefore, knowledge management is called the totality of all abilities, skills and knowledge that can be used to solve problems. Knowledge management supports the development and use of knowledge by individuals or teams and makes them available to the Company. The objectives of managing knowledge include increasing the company's success through improved processes, the distribution of (employee) knowledge to minimize the risk (the more I know, the better I can ...