[GOAL] Google's role in sustaining the public good to research parallel to developments in open access?

[Omega Alpha Open Access]

Greetings. I get the sense that Google Scholar is becoming the default indexer for open access research in STM with slower but also increasing uptake in the SS and humanities. Google is so nearly ubiquitous now it is easy to forget they are also a commercial company. At some point, a conversation surely needs to happen regarding Google’s role in sustaining the public good to research parallel to developments in open access. Is anyone aware of the status of such a conversation? Thanks.

Gary F. Daught
Omega Alpha | Open Access
Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology
oa.openaccess at gmail.com
http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com
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