I really enjoyed reading Why Sci-Hub Will Win. One of the key points is that the user experience associated with institutional access to journal articles can be pretty lousy. That’s not really news, but it is a nice reminder because I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about ebooks. With ebooks, the current…
I noticed this interesting conversation on Twitter the other day.
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) created by Bielefeld University Library in Bielefeld, Germany is probably one of the largest and most advanced aggregator of open access articles…
Note from 2020 : Three years on, a lot of what I wrote in here has come to pass, with pretty much every majority discovery system (including library ones) having made big strides…
