Embedding the Library into Scientific and Scholarly Communication through Knowledge Management

Knowledge management is a new role for academic research libraries that has the potential to integrate the library into scholarly and scientific communication in a significant way. Work in knowledge management is advancing in both the sciences and humanities. The Genome Data Base at the Johns Hopkins University is currently the most advanced knowledge management prototype. As part of its new Center for Knowledge Management, the University of California, San Francisco is undertaking several initiatives to create a campuswide knowledge management environment.published or submitted for publicatio