John Smith writes
> The more intelligent the users the more radical will be the
> alternative uses they find for the tool and academic researchers are
> amongst the brightest. Already young researchers are rejecting
> formal indexing/abstracting services in favour of CiteSeer and
> Google Scholar.
Well that has partly to do with the lack of open access to most
A&I services. But A&I services will have to stay, not necessarily
for IR but for keeping a record of academic work.
It's in that area that all my work has been.
> In the past new ideas were floated in conference
> papers and research seminars. With social networking sites and more
> academically focussed services based on the SN model (like
> CiteULike)
I have been intrigued by this CiteULike thing, but I have not
been able to grasp how it works.
> It is sightings of these innovations by real researchers that I am
> looking for.
My sense is you'll be looking for it for a long time.
Academic publishing is a very conservative domain.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel
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