"A simple search of Google or Google Scholar is enormously valuable for discovery. But that doesn’t make the biomedical literature usable to all. There are at least two reasons for this. For one, not everyone can establish the trustworthiness and authority of information resources, particularly given that we are awash in a sea of misinformation including on biomedical topics. And second, not everyone can distill or synthesize what they find into usable knowledge."
Indeed; the famous "do your own research" with Google (or now a chatbot).
"Perhaps we have seen comparatively little interest in this use case because it is the more complicated one to address. Many of the ideas that have taken hold are generally about what scientific publishers themselves can do, for example to enable researchers to provide annotation and translation of scientific articles, often through plain language summaries."
So more free labor from academics? No thanks.
"Perhaps there is an opportunity, as agencies implement this policy guidance, to consider the needs that are specific to their own portions of the literature."
Sounds better, but note that in many (most?) fields there are no governmental agencies.
Indeed; the famous "do your own research" with Google (or now a chatbot).
"Perhaps we have seen comparatively little interest in this use case because it is the more complicated one to address. Many of the ideas that have taken hold are generally about what scientific publishers themselves can do, for example to enable researchers to provide annotation and translation of scientific articles, often through plain language summaries."
So more free labor from academics? No thanks.
"Perhaps there is an opportunity, as agencies implement this policy guidance, to consider the needs that are specific to their own portions of the literature."
Sounds better, but note that in many (most?) fields there are no governmental agencies.