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Geoscience literature: greater volume--less access or ignorants in the sea of knowledge.(Commentary)(Report)

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In 1913, when Louis de Launay published his monumental Traite de Metallogenie, the book that created the first factual synthesis of global ore distribution and laid the foundation for the discipline of metallogeny, he utilized at least 75% of the published global knowledge of his period, which comprised a list of references that counted only several thousand titles. The bulk of the literature was in six major European languages because there was virtually no scientific or technical writing to be found in the rest of world languages. At the onset of the 21st century we are blessed with more than four million accumulated references in the field of geology and ...

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