More and more full-text scholarship will appear online. With the explosion of this sort of information, we can hope for finding and using filtering tools such as are becoming common in medicine to help us sort the relevant from the irrelevant.
Predictor: Roddy, Kevin
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 online newsletter for the University of California, Davis, Kevin Roddy, a Medieval Studies professor writes about online scholarship. He writes:”For reasons having more to do with the cost of postage than with speed, more and more full-text scholarship will appear online. With the explosion of this sort of information, we can hope for finding and using filtering tools such as are becoming common in medicine to help us sort the relevant from the irrelevant.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Medical/Professional
Name of publication: Information Technology Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Teaching with the Internet: What There is and What There Might Be
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://ittimes.ucdavis.edu/v2n3sprg94/teaching.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Jagrup, Shavanna