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2. Mechanisms of academic knowledge distribution using the internet
2.5. On-line Indexing Services
Academics have compiled indexes to aid other academics for hundreds of years. Such indexes are more convenient to access when available on-line. A few of these services (especially specialist services) include links to on-line papers so that the results of searches can be immediately accessed. Inclusion in such an index does give a substantial, if indirect, guarantee of quality (they usually rely on the judgements of the journals they think are reliable). However the inclusion of papers still gives little indication about levels of quality (although some are approaching this problem through citation information and statistics).
A Proposal for the Establishment of Review Boards - Bruce Edmonds - 16 MAR 99
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