Thomas,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Krichel [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 05 April 2008 02:48
> To: John Smith
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Scholarly publishing and Web 2.0
>
>
> 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.
The researchers I refer to are here. They had access to Inspec but simply did not use it and when asked said they did not want it. Basically the material it indexed was too old. In electronics and computing new work is announced at conferences and later written up as a refereed paper purely for promotion purposes. Finally they are experts in their field so do not need the filtering provided by referees, journals and high quality indexes.
I wonder if indexing services like Inspec can continue. It is an excellent index because it uses a lot of human input to add value (classification codes, controlled indexing terms, etc) but such work is expensive but if researchers don't use it who is going to pay for it?
John
>
> 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
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