Post B5M7hdDQ3MyMddaIuu by ngaylinn@tech.lgbt
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 (DIR) Post #B5M7hdDQ3MyMddaIuu by ngaylinn@tech.lgbt
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       It's amazing how often I'll stumble across whole fields of study that are relevant to my work, but which I never even knew existed until I accidentally bumble my way into the right papers.The academic literature has a*massive* discoverability problem. I'd be lost without personal recommendations and citation trails!#academicchatter
       
 (DIR) Post #B5M7hdQBHvBHHDYUoC by abucci@buc.ci
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       @ngaylinn@tech.lgbtThe academic literature has amassive discoverability problem.No it doesn't---you're doing the discovery! That's what a scholar is and does, and why we need them.You sometimes can't know something is connected to your work till you find the thing and notice it's connected. It's a bit like how you can read a book again and get different things from it than you did the previous times you read it. This not a mechanically or technologically solvable problem, because it's not a problem at all: it's baked into how human life works.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5MDZMohjrCtBfT0Oe by ngaylinn@tech.lgbt
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       @abucci I do like that perspective. Maybe that's really just the nature of what we do. It's just hard to accept that this is the best option, when so much valuable knowledge is hidden where laypeople will never find it (and even the experts sometimes don't!)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5MDZN2AvlyxrRllOS by abucci@buc.ci
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       @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt That I agree with wholeheartedly. Collectively we could certainly do a better job at making information and knowledge available to everyone. I'm glad you don't accept the status quo in that respect!