RE: Article in "Inside HigherEd"

["Sally Morris \(Morris Associates\)" <sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk>]

Computers can mine the literature, just as search engines can 
index it, without it necessarily having to be freely available to 
human users.  It's not the 'free' that's the issue, it's the 
structure and adherence to standards.

Sally Morris
Email: sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of David Prosser
Sent: 24 March 2009 22:34
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Subject: RE: Article in "Inside HigherEd"

Surely Joe the answer is simple.  Any smart tools that we build
to help with the information overload are going to have to have
access to the information.  Of course you can start with what is
licensed by your local library, or what's in the abstract, or
what the keywords are.  But the tools will work better and have
greater efficiency if they have access to all the literature.
(Just as data-mining tools work better with greater access.) And
then, if the wondrous tools find something that you think is of
interest to you, don't you want access?

David C Prosser
Director, SPARC Europe