This screams the need for an intelligent search engine, with summarizing features that point out relevant parts of the paper, and (imho) a UI and algorithms that reach across disciplines and encourage discovery. So, for instance (I'm making this up), someone looking for a way to understand interferometry data might stumble on a useful regularization technique from image processing.
I imagine academic libraries would pay really good money for that. Of course, it would help if a mostly complete body of scientific literature was available to crawl--like SciHub.
This screams the need for an intelligent search engine, with summarizing features that point out relevant parts of the paper, and (imho) a UI and algorithms that reach across disciplines and encourage discovery. So, for instance (I'm making this up), someone looking for a way to understand interferometry data might stumble on a useful regularization technique from image processing.
I imagine academic libraries would pay really good money for that. Of course, it would help if a mostly complete body of scientific literature was available to crawl--like SciHub.