Comments on: Citation Metrics: Another Sign the US Is Lagging in Scholarship http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/08/31/citation-metrics-another-sign-the-us-is-lagging-in-scholarship/ by Stephen E. Arnold Wed, 23 May 2012 16:51:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: sperky undernet http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/08/31/citation-metrics-another-sign-the-us-is-lagging-in-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-21634 sperky undernet Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:02:52 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=1617#comment-21634 The Bates piece implies that the traditional commercial databases contain more than what is accessible through the google, yahoo, scirus and other interfaces to the same big name repositories. This seems to mean - put your credit card back in your pocket and go back to DOS command line subscription searches. Then continuing, your take on the Tracey Caldwell piece is that U.S. scholarship along with these traditional commercial databases are lagging because ROW (remember Rest of World?) is leapfrogging onto the free net. How interesting. Scholar is chomping down on Citations while Bates is saying but wait, what about those other terabytes for a fee that aren't showing up. Is the net feeding on itself while the edge is beyond (free) search? Or is what is/was past edge present/future forgetable underflap? The Bates piece implies that the traditional commercial databases contain more than what is accessible through the google, yahoo, scirus and other interfaces to the same big name repositories. This seems to mean – put your credit card back in your pocket and go back to DOS command line subscription searches. Then continuing, your take on the Tracey Caldwell piece is that U.S. scholarship along with these traditional commercial databases are lagging because ROW (remember Rest of World?) is leapfrogging onto the free net. How interesting. Scholar is chomping down on Citations while Bates is saying but wait, what about those other terabytes
for a fee that aren’t showing up. Is the net feeding on itself while the edge is beyond (free) search? Or is what is/was past edge present/future forgetable underflap?

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