[Sigia-l] Is Google Threatening? (was Google vs. Knowledge Management)

[Laura Norvig]

Who feels threatened?

Nuno was just stating something that is true within certain 
disciplines, (although "almost never" is pretty strong language!).

Many prestigious, peer-reviewed journals do not offer their content 
free on the web. This may be less true with computer science and 
other hard sciences, but it is certainly true in many disciplines. To 
access that type of content you've got to use services like JSTOR, 
EBSCO, etc. (which your university or company pays dearly for) which 
serve up content from big publishers like Elsevier, etc.

I would say that, although there are many deep, knowledgeable 
articles that can be found through a google search, there are a 
greater number that cannot be found (or perhaps the citation can be 
found, but not the content).

-Laura


>  > Deep knowledgeable articles are almost never found through a Google search
>>  IMO.
>
>Why is Google so threatening to some people?
>
>Best,
>
>Ziya