"The task of keeping up with scientific literature is becoming an impossible one and is in turn leading to inefficiency and to a certain amount of frustration in scientific research and in the application of science."
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Vickery commented: "The crux of the retrieval problem is that selecting documents to read grows ever more difficult, and new techniques are continually needed."
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