"Knowledge has left books and libraries and is now changing more rapidly than ever before, say researchers. New ways of mapping science offer the prospect of new discoveries, they add."

"Science is specializing at high speed, which leads to increasing fragmentation and reinvention,"

"Researchers maintain that the very nature of knowledge is different in the digital age because information held on computers can be cross-referenced and linked. That opens new possibilities and presents new problems of extracting meaningful and relevant information from largely unorganised data collections."

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