Re: Reuters article

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Forwarded at the request of Margaret Landesman, University of Utah
Library.

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:41:01 -0700
From: Margaret Landesman <margaret.landesman@library.utah.edu>
To: ann.okerson@yale.edu
Subject: FW: Reuters article

Jan: Perhaps not a stewpot for the sciences.

But there are other (more interesting) fields, like the social sciences.
And the arts, and for them, I would guess it is the stewpot.

I was especially taken by the piece on WebFountain below and its 'hubs
and authorities upended' bit,

http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5153627.html

Margaret Landesman
Head, Collection Development
University of Utah

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Joe Esposito wrote:

> user-generated content [...] the stewpot out of which open access
> research publications will arise.

Perhaps in the same way as the prestigious scientific journals arose out
of the drivel found in the magazine racks of the average airport
newsstand? Or more like the statistically significant effect of the
decline of the stork population on the birth-rate of humans in Western
Europe?

Jan Velterop