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

[Bill Johnstone]

"Listera" wrote:

> Fair enough. But that's not a failing of the
> approach/technology; merely a
> matter of (IP) access. There's absolutely nothing
> technical that would
> prevent some tool like Google to break open that
> process, if the content is
> allowed to be parsed. And that is just a matter of
> time. If you can prove,
> say in five years, that this is not the future
> trend, then I'll eat whatever
> paper-based journal you choose.

We'll assume "(IP) access" refers to "Internet
Protocol" and not "Intellectual Property".  As the
current Intellectual Property system seems geared
toward "sapping" every bit of revenue from
material/analog media channels for as long as
possible, this <nothing technical> technicality may
have you chomping pulp.



Bill Johnstone

A Google-like tool would be unlikely
--- Listera <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
> "Laura Norvig" wrote:
> 
> > Many prestigious, peer-reviewed journals do not
> offer their content
> > free on the web. 
> 
> Here's another take on the *future*:
> 
> The revolution in biomedical publishing is just a
> mouse click away.
> 
> With the recent creation of such online publishing
> initiatives as BioMed
> Central, PubMed Central, and CrossRef, researchers
> and clinicians have less
> costly and more immediate access to research
> articles. But this newfound
> freedom of access to biomedical information has
> raised critical questions
> for scientific publishers and their readers. Among
> them are whether research
> published online should be available at no cost and
> how that research should
> be peer-reviewed. Scientific and medical
> associations that currently publish
> paper-based journals also face important issues
> regarding shifting sources
> of revenue as free or low-cost electronic access
> competes with traditional
> subscription and distribution systems.
> 
> "It's easy to be frightened about what's happening
> through the Internet in
> many disciplines, and this could happen in science,
> too. We should not be
> naive about this," said Harold Varmus, MD, president
> of Memorial
> Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. As the former
> director of the National
> Institutes of Health (NIH), Varmus helped create
> PubMed Central, the
> NIH-supported repository for peer-reviewed research
> in the life sciences.
> 
> Publishers Debate Future of Online Journals
>
<http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n8/ffull/jmn0823-1.html>
> Also:
>
<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C14FA385E0C718DDDA10894DA
> 404482>
> 
> I'm sure you aware of all the efforts to bring this
> antiquated niche into
> the 21st century. There's little doubt in my mind
> this is the future trend.
>  
> > 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).
> 
> Fair enough. But that's not a failing of the
> approach/technology; merely a
> matter of (IP) access. There's absolutely nothing
> technical that would
> prevent some tool like Google to break open that
> process, if the content is
> allowed to be parsed. And that is just a matter of
> time. If you can prove,
> say in five years, that this is not the future
> trend, then I'll eat whatever
> paper-based journal you choose.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ziya
> 
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