Presentation Information Overload in the Attention Economy
may be of interest. The presentation argues that information has become ubiquitous because producing, manipulating, and disseminating it is now cheap and easy. The presentation also argues that perceptions of information overload may have less to do with quantity than with the qualities by which knowledge is presented.
Addressing information overload in scholarly literature
Information overload is a common problem, and it is an old problem. It is not a problem of the internet age, and it is not specific to scholarly literature, but the growth of preprints in the last five years presents us with a proximal example of the challenge.
We want to tackle this information overload problem and have some ideas on how to do this – presented at the end of this post. Are you willing to help? This post tells some of the back story of how preprints solve part of the problem – speedy access to academic information – yet add to the growing information that we need to filter to find results that we can build on. It is written to inspire the problem solvers in our community to step forward and help us to realise some practical solutions....
A new generation of smart software tools is helping scientists to stay on top of the literature. Visual mapping and recommendation tools such as Connected Papers and Open Knowledge Maps find relevant papers on the basis of factors such as citations and metadata. Tools such as ResearchGate and ResearchRabbit offer recommendations based on what you, and others, have read before. These can augment or even replace e-mail alerts from services such as Google Scholar, and most of the tools are free or offer free versions...