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What is the research layer? - STM

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<strong>What</strong> <strong>is</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>research</strong> <strong>layer</strong>?<br />

Body Level 1<br />

• Free material, unqualified databases<br />

• H<strong>is</strong>torical and current materials blended in repositories<br />

• Highly d<strong>is</strong>coverable<br />

• Prime example: Google books<br />

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Initially digitized complete holdings of 5 <strong>research</strong> libraries<br />

Today contains more than 10 million titles<br />

Non-copyright material goes in without question<br />

But <strong>is</strong> a resource like Google Books bad for <strong>research</strong>?

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