Yesterday I noticed that a journal is now on Wiley, which isn't the same thing at all as Oxford Journals, and I don't have access to it...
I then checked these journals against JSTOR and found another stack matter.
I'm not sure how many more of these I need to find but it seems to me this is the heart of the access to information issue which is in the UN charter of human rights....
We had for a long time a library system, to use the term loosely, in which we could find out about something and then find the thing. We did have to learn how it all worked though.
Now we have google which thinks that things are not strings n(or at least a sub-editor who thinks that, or thinks it catchy) but journal articles are becoming harder to access if your institution takes a different track. Open access and linked data are going to impact on all this, but I'm afraid I think a bundle of professional policies is more important than ever, aligned with education and professional development. Some time ago there was a thing called infodefrag... now it has a task?
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