RE: Article in "Inside HigherEd"

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

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

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Sent: 23 March 2009 23:22
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Subject: Article in "Inside HigherEd"

See Ken Coates's piece in "Inside HigherEd":]

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/03/23/coates#Comments

The title is "Knowledge Overload."

My question, which I have been asking for 5 years now, is, Why does anybody
believe that access is the key problem?

Joe Esposito