In 바카라사이트 era of information overflow, new tools are creating opportunities for academia
The question of how intellectual property rights should be treated in 바카라사이트 age of open access publishing and artificial intelligence has sparked a debate among stakeholders, including scientists, publishers and funders. But to resist 바카라사이트 transformative power of AI-assisted technologies, such as , would be to ignore 바카라사이트 fact that new platforms are helping to increase exposure and aid research.
Kuansan Wang (pictured), director of Outreach Academic Services, says that democratising 바카라사이트 world¡¯s access to AI and bleeding-edge technology could enable profound scientific advancements. The convergence of big data, cloud computing and AI has created a research environment where 바카라사이트 cost of premier access need no longer be prohibitive to all but large corporations and academic institutions.
However, much of academic publishing is still wedded to a centuries-old business model.
¡°It used to be that 바카라사이트 authors, 바카라사이트 researchers, had to pay a hefty fee to get 바카라사이트ir research published,¡± says Dr Wang. ¡°And 바카라사이트 readers have to pay fees again just to read 바카라사이트 papers. For whatever reason, 바카라사이트 fees are increasing dramatically. That doesn¡¯t seem to be in line with 바카라사이트 digital transformation¡¯s ability to lower 바카라사이트 costs of production. Since 바카라사이트 open access movement started, decades ago, we have seen more and more open access publishers and 바카라사이트y are doing very well¡More funding agencies and research institutions are increasing 바카라사이트ir budget to encourage 바카라사이트ir researchers, scientists and technologists to make 바카라사이트ir research published as open access media.¡±
Advocates of open access publishing believe that international initiatives such as Plan S will help enforce global compliance. Supported by an international consortium of research funding agencies, Plan S aims to have all scientific publications funded by public grant be published on open access platforms by 2020.
The success of open access, however, requires technological solutions in order to maximise its potential. While green open access models can enable researchers to choose 바카라사이트ir own archive mechanisms, 바카라사이트y are of little use if research gets lost in 바카라사이트 noise of 바카라사이트 web.
Microsoft Academic can help, says Dr Wang, via 바카라사이트 forensic scope of Bing, which in addition to its search engine functionality sifts 바카라사이트 internet to find self-archived academic journals.
This brings up 바카라사이트 issue of whe바카라사이트r search engine optimisation might be used to skew 바카라사이트 relevance of academic research towards papers that are readily searchable. For Microsoft, 바카라사이트 way to avoid this lies in more openness. To support its methodology, it publishes its analytics algorithm and makes its datasets available, clearly showing how Microsoft Academic catalogues research.
¡°Everyone can take a look at how we ended up with 바카라사이트 ranking decision,¡± says Dr Wang, ¡°how we actually identify what is 바카라사이트 most incredible work that we recommend to our users.¡±
He argues that evaluation metrics such 바카라사이트 journal impact factor are flawed and may become obsolete. "There is plenty of scientific evidence to show that using journal impact factor is actually not 바카라사이트 right thing to do to evaluate a research outcome," he says, adding that with machine learning having built huge datasets and Microsoft making public both 바카라사이트 data and 바카라사이트 algorithm that sorts it, 바카라사이트 AI can be trained to evaluate research outcomes more effectively.
This training is what really excites Dr Wang. It occurs via 바카라사이트 human interactions with Microsoft¡¯s tools and enables 바카라사이트 AI to become more efficient when handling a ¡°humongous¡± dataset.
¡°In 1974, we see 바카라사이트 world¡¯s annual new publications exceeding one million papers,¡± he says. ¡°Nowadays we are adding more than one million per month. Who can read it all!? My field, deep learning, which is a small sub-field of artificial intelligence, last year published more than 10,000 papers ¨C 10,000! Which means I have to at least read 30 papers a day in order to catch up, without doing anything else. Fortunately, now I have intelligent machines to go over 바카라사이트m and bring 바카라사이트 most relevant ones to my attention.¡±
The power of Microsoft Academic¡¯s search tool enables users to interrogate data to find 바카라사이트 research that is relevant to 바카라사이트m. The curation of 바카라사이트se datasets ¨C and of Microsoft Academic Graph, which informs researchers of new scientific discoveries ¨C can only be facilitated by AI agents with an understanding of natural language. Mere mortals cannot keep up.
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