| positions will be as shown here. The reference list will also be pruned, to cite or remove uncited works The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| Most of this book has been about the past and the present of Open Access (OA). Let’s now take a brief glimpse at its future, for it is already within reach and almost within sight: Once the optimal and inevitable outcome for the research literature has became actual, namely, all 2.5 million of the annual articles appearing in the planet’s 24,000 peer-reviewed research journals are freely accessible online to all would-be users, then: (1) All their OAI metadata and full-texts will be harvested and reverse-indexed by services such as Google, OAIster (and new OAI/OA services), making it possible to search all and only the research literature in all disciplines using Boolean full-text search (and, or not, etc.). (2) Boolean full-text search will be augmented by Artificial Intelligence (AI) based text-analysis and classification techniques superior to human preclassification, infinitely less time-consuming, and applied automatically to the entire OA full-text corpus. (3) Articles and portions of articles will also be classified, tagged and annotated | |||||||||||||||
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