[Irtalk] Discovery Versus Filtering and Other Questions Raised by Data-driven Services | The Scholarly Kitchen

[Hilton Gibson]

*The question then must be asked–do you trust commercially-driven companies
to play fair?* How long did Google’s “do no evil” pledge last after their
IPO? *Would it surprise you in any way if the recommendations coming out of
a service owned by Publisher X favored articles in journals from that same
publisher?* Can these tools only be trustworthy if they are run by neutral
third parties freed from profit motives (think CrossRef, ORCID, etc.)?

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/04/02/discovery-versus-filtering-and-other-questions-raised-by-data-driven-services/
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