"I now believe that having public access to most scholarly communications is inevitable," said David Shulenburger, vice president for academic affairs at the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. "Faculty are coming to understand, finally, that this has to happen if they're going to have the most scholarly opportunities to get things done."
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The "killer app" of open access, [Mr. Bernard] Schutz, [director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics] said, would be something that gave researchers the means to dig past metadata and do full-text searches. "I want really useful tools that understand context to retrieve text intelligently, hunt down key equations, ensure completeness of bibliographies, help assess the real impact of a scientist's work," he said.
Sayeed Choudhury, associate dean of the Library Digital Program at the Johns Hopkins University and director of the Digital Data and Curation Center there, gave a tantalizing glimpse into a future where vast swathes of data will be avalable to researchers anywhere. Johns Hopkins's Data Conservancy project has a grant from the National Science Foundation to help develop part of the NSF's ambitious DataNet project, which aims to build an international, large-scale data-curation network. "We have to think about how we're going to reach across all these data domains," Mr. Choudhury said.
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