Jan Velterop wrote: > there is scant reason to overcome those [technical difficulties] for > so-called OA articles if text-mining is not allowed.
This has to be one of the most ridiculous statements I've seen anyone make on this list. The vast majority of scholars and scientists want and need to read articles. Text mining of the corpus is an interesting and potentially useful new tool but the main tool for academics and other readers of the journal literature is their own eyes and minds. Look at the term "open access". What is the principle noun here? Access. Nothing else, just access. Without access nothing else can follow. Indeed this access, by humans quickly and simply for their own reading and understanding, is what is needed by all and all this is needed by most. Let us first grasp that, rather than trying to solve all the problems at once. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
