Google News has been up to a lot lately, as you've probably noticed. Like it or not, Google and its news strategies will likely be revolutionary (if they aren't already) for our generation. It's hard for me to remember a time before Google; Millennials are very much in the Google generation in the way we receive content.On Friday I spoke with Josh Cohen, senior product manager for Google News, who offered some perspective about how the site is trying to work with publishers for a story on eMedia Vitals. You might be interested in what he has to say.
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I'd like to see Google do more to improve their Google Scholar service. I graduated school many years ago, and now that I've lost that affiliation with my university it is so difficult to penetrate the "walled garden" surrounding peer-reviewed material. J-Stor is a much more comprehensive database, but very exclusive.
Likewise, I wish that news archives were "googlized" as well, so that they are more accessible and easily searchable to someone who doesn't have a corporate or educational account. $11 for an old article is steep!
I'm not as familiar with that part of the business, so thanks for filling me in. I definitely agree it would be nice to have easier access to academic material -- but, unlike the news business, maybe scholarly services were smart enough not to give it away for free!
ha, I wish it were a simple matter of printing content. But apparently these services care more about having an actual affiliation with a university. I couldn't pay for this stuff if I wanted to.
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