Advantages and Disadvantages of Doing Research Online

With the development of technology and the popularization of Internet, now many research centers and colleges are doing research online. In a certain sense, as every coin has two sides, we desire advantages of doing research online while there are also disadvantages that we are not able to ignore.

The advantages of Internet are obviously realized by researcher. First of all, Internet has probably help researcher communicate with others faster, cheaper, and easier. A successful scientist is a person who is never satisfied with his knowledge, communicating with other researcher is the best way to get knowledge and sprint. Secondly, it is an easy way via internet to share research result and other researchers who are even from remote region are able to give suggestion. In the era of globalization, great research must be global. We have found many great research results which could not be imaged in the world without internet, such as human genes and cloud computer, etc.

However, in sharp contrast, doing research online has disadvantages either. On the one hand, easier communication enhances copying or imitating which are immoral and illegal, as a result that researchers confront mainly challenge of copyright. On the other hand, cooperation via internet could not able to install of face to face, especially for doing research. However, many researchers do not clearly realize this, they rely on the internet to search information, and they would like not to spend much time on reading deeply and thinking hard, which are needed for doing great research. Frankly speaking, such researchers always compel useless message in their papers which only have little value.

In a conclusion, although there are some disadvantages of doing research online, the advantages are even more attractively. And, to be frank, whether you like internet or not, you have no choice but to use it if you want to do research in the future. We need to avoid the disadvantages, to realize the advantages, to make the internet as our useful kit of doing research.