From Adam Rogers at WIRED, an interesting piece about Google Scholar and paywalls:
“Anurag Acharya’s problem was that the Google search bar is very smart, but also kind of dumb. As a Googler working on search 13 years ago, Acharya wanted to make search results encompass scholarly journal articles. A laudable goal, because unlike the open web, most of the raw output of scientific research was invisible—hidden behind paywalls. People might not even know it existed.”
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Source: It’s Gonna Get a Lot Easier To Break Science Journal Paywalls | WIRED