RE: Article in "Inside HigherEd"

["Joseph Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

A brand is the best tool of all.  Brands are exclusionary:  This 
is worth reading, this is not worth reading.  An authoritative 
brand is of great value to readers.  Access is not the problem, 
selection is.

Joe Esposito


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of David Prosser
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:34 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
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

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Esposito
Sent: 23 March 2009 23:22
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
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