On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Joseph Pear wrote: > sh> scholars and scientists: all papers in all fields, systematically > sh> interconnected, effortlessly accessible and rationally navigable > > If reference sections were computer-linked to each article cited in > them, this would result in an enormous saving of time and effort in > researching the literature on a particular topic. It would also solve the > problem of weeding out articles of little or no scientific value. They > would (in general) be the one with few or no links to them.
See: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/citation.html
