Re: Open Access Overload

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:47 PM, kingjacob <kingjacob@gmail.com> wrote:

Having one "for profit" gatekeeper,no matter how not evil they claim to be, doesn't sit well with me. Maybe if it was an open source search engine with a real privacy policy I'd be okay with that being the only option.

Maybe. One of the problems with starting a scholarly search engine is that all of the publishers have given pdf priority to Google's IPs. It used to be by user agent. So I'm not sure how to route around this problem.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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