[LINK] Access to Scientific Literature

[Tony Barry]

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                       Volume 13, no. 11, November 2002
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      Weston, Wil.  "[28]Access to Scientific Literature"  [29]Nature
      420(19) (7 November 2002)
      (http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v4
      20/n6911/full/420019a_fs.html). - Wil Weston, a librarian at the
      University of New Orleans, Earl K. Long Library, reinforces what
      all librarians already know. The internet is no substitute for
      libraries, and concomitantly, the guidance to research that
      librarians provide. Presently only 8% of journals and scarcely a
      fraction of books are accessible via the World Wide Web. Not only
      are search engines selective as to what to include, but also are
      biased. Search engines promote those sites which pay a listing fee,
      thereby ensuring these display early and prominently in retrieved
      site listings. This would be analogous to librarians offering their
      clients primarily those books for which publishers had paid a fee
      for precedence ranking. While this article doesn't present anything
      new for librarians, it is nevertheless a concise recap for
      non-librarians about the state of web research, and the qualitative
      advantage offered by libraries. Interesting citations included are:
      Lebedev, Alexander Moscow State University, Best search engines for
      finding scientific information in the Web, Version: August 9, 1996.
      [30]http://scon155.phys.msu.su/~swan/comparison.html and Lawrence,
      Steve Online or Invisible
      [31]http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/ -
      [32]MG

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http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v420/n6911/full/420019a_fs.html
   29. http://www.nature.com/
   30. http://scon155.phys.msu.su/~swan/comparison.html
   31. http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/
   32. http://www.cam.org/~mgross/mgross.htm
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