Scientific Search Engines Are Getting More Powerful | WIRED

Amyluv's bookmarks 2017-12-03

Summary:

"Anurag Acharya’s problem was that the Google search bar is very smart, but also kind of dumb. As a Googler working on search 13 years ago, Acharya wanted to make search results encompass scholarly journal articles. A laudable goal, because unlike the open web, most of the raw output of scientific research was invisible—hidden behind paywalls. People might not even know it existed. “I grew up in India, and most of the time you didn’t even know if something existed. If you knew it existed, you could try to get it,” Acharya says. “‘How do I get access?’ is a second problem. If I don’t know about it, I won’t even try.”

Link:

https://www.wired.com/story/its-gonna-get-a-lot-easier-to-break-science-journal-paywalls/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Amyluv's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.paywalls oa.trends oa.journals oa.citations oa.publishing oa.open_science oa.medicine oa.elsevier oa.ssrn oa.funders oa.scholcomm oa.predatory oa.discoverability oa.access oa.acs oa.metadata oa.preprints oa.copyright oa.versions

Date tagged:

12/03/2017, 18:37

Date published:

12/03/2017, 13:37