Using the internet to search for scientific articles is narrowing the range of findings by researchers, says University of Chicago sociologist James Evans in an article published yesterday in Science.

His argument is a classic computer-versus-paper library dilemma, updated for science: when researchers search online, they tend to arrive at just a few high-ranking articles. Lost is the breadth of scholarship encountered by old-fashioned, page-turning browsing.

Read the full story at Wired Science.

More information and a video interview with James Evans is available at the National Science Foundation.