What is not available online is not worth reading? - The Diigo Meta page

• 24 May 09
  

  Mario A Núñez

  ciencia_2.0

  • ased on a study of physicists and astronomers, this article shows that more scientists now assume that if articles are of enough quality and significance, they must be available online and vice versa. Though still in a low minority, a number of scientists believe that what is not available online is not worth the effort to obtain it.
  • All of the interviewees in the study stated that their preference was to obtain the articles online as PDF files.
  • The reason of course was the convenience associated with accessing an article electronically compared to having to go to the library and reading or photocopying the print version.
  • The interviewees then were asked what they would do if the article was not available online. Going to the library in order to access the hard copy was the second option that a considerable number of interviewees said they would choose. However, a few (four) of the interviewees stated that before going to the library they would try to see if a colleague had a copy, or they might even contact the author and ask for a copy. Surprisingly seven interviewees thought that if an article is not online then it is not worth the effort to obtain it. They said that if it is not available online they would not bother to look for it elsewhere and they would try to find an alternative source of information if possible.
  • It implies that at least in some scientific fields online availability of articles is a measure of their collective quality assessment by their subject community.

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• 08 May 09
  

  Betzi Bateman

  academia publishing

• 07 May 09
  

  Nikki Reynolds

  Article on scientist's use of information on the world wide web.

  article web scientist online

• 06 May 09
  

  david stong

  Interesting paper by Hamid R. Jamali, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Tarbiat Moallem University, Tehran. "more scientists now assume that if articles are of enough quality
  and significance, they must be available online and vice versa ...what is not availabl

  research journals online openaccess delicious

• 10 Mar 09
  

  Gosia Stergios

  This short article discusses an emerging trend in the information-seeking behaviour of scientists, i.e. mere reliance on online information. Based on a study of physicists and astronomers, this article shows that more scientists now assume that if article

  information_behavior GKEN

• 09 Mar 09
  

  Dave Zwicky

  "If an article is not available online, it’s probably not worth the effort to obtain it" - Ouch

  openaccess internet eresearch

• 07 Mar 09
  

  Geoffrey Bilder

  trust heuristics

• 06 Mar 09
  

  Ratcatcher

  article in:webology information behavior openaccess

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  Joseph Kraus

  Thanks to Dorothea Salo for finding. This short article discusses an emerging trend in the information-seeking behaviour of scientists, i.e. mere reliance on online information. Based on a study of physicists and astronomers, this article shows that more

  astronomy physics information_seeking information_use internet journals open_access

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