For centuries careful researchers and scholars have trusted in the stability of citations. Once a work was cited it was always, in principle, available to be checked and verified. Those centuries of reliance on the stability of citations is at an end. Two decades of academic literature now relies on dead links and vanished sources […]
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Confident Searching
One fundamental difference between Google, for example, and database searching is the question of privacy and confidentiality. Every keystroke entered into search engines whose business model is based on surveillance of its users is harvested and stored and disseminated for commercial, electoral and political purposes. Every discovery you make belongs to them. Even users’ medical […]
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