[WEB4LIB] Re: Welcome to the Schoogle Era

[Karen Coyle]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 08:13, Thomas Dowling wrote:
> Yeah but...
> 
> This goes a long way toward undoing the last three or four years of work 
> on the appropriate copy problem.  Google knows an article exists: good.  
> Google points you to (and only to) some publisher's web site: maybe 
> good, maybe bad.  You may have access there, in which case it's good.  
> You may have access to the same article online through a different 
> aggregator, in which case it's remarkably bad.

So what you're saying is that Google needs to implement the OpenURL?
What this brings up is the difference between open, public access
systems, like Google, and systems that rely on some level of
"belonging", like being a bona fide member of an educational
institution, or a card-holder at a particular library. As long as some
information resources need to be paid for we'll need to monitor the
state of "belonging" in order to provide access, and as we know that is
a difficult problem on a scale the size of "Google users everywhere." 

What would be interesting would be to combine Schoogle with
CreativeCommons and give preferred access to resources that are
available with a CC license. CC has its own search engine for
CC-licensed works, but it's a mish-mosh of odd web pages and signficant
works. 
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