Stephen E. Arnold: Adam Smith of Wired on It’s Gonna Get a Lot Easier to Break Science Journal Paywalls

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It's Gonna Get a Lot Easier to Break Science Journal Paywalls

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For example the Chan Zuckerberg Initative, philanthropic arm of the founder of Facebook, is working on something aimed at increasing access. The founders of Mendeley have a new, venture-backed PDF finder called Kopernio. A browser extension called Unpaywall roots around the web for free PDFs of articles.

A particularly novel web crawler comes from the non-profit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Semantic Scholar pores over a corpus of 40 million citations in computer science and biomedicine, and extracts the tables and charts as well as using machine learning to infer meaningful cites as “highly influential citations,” a new metric. Almost a million people use it every month.

Robert David STEELE Vivas

ROBERT STEELE: This is one of the best article I have read on the general topic of why Elsivier (and Thomson Reuters and others are other ilk) are — like Central Banks — destined for the tar pit of history. The author misses the second half of the story, to wit that all he writes about is at best 1% of 1% of what is known, but if and when he does get to that story, it is sure to be a blockbuster and perhaps even a book.

See Also:

Robert Steele: Creating a Post-Western Independent Internet

Amazon Kindle: Creating a Post-Western (Post-Google) Internet: An Open Source Internet Can Create Peace and Prosperity for All (Trump Revolution Book 22)

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