The World Wide Web's Role in Research

The World Wide Web and the Internet offer new opportunities to perform research. Researchers can make connections with colleagues around the world as well as tap into large storehouses of information and conversation about many topics. The Web's technologies provide a spectrum of functionality to meet these communication needs. By using these functions, researchers can employ the Web and the Internet in a variety of ways.

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