[GOAL] Re: New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search

[Stevan Harnad]

CHEER-LEADING, CHALLENGES AND REALITY

What is missing and needed is not "awesome repositories cross-search
tools."

What is missing and needed is OA repository deposits, and OA deposit
mandates.

The repositories are mostly empty.

And Google Scholar finds what OA content there is -- wherever it is on the
web -- incomparably better than "awesome repositories cross-search tools."

Here is just a sample vanity search on a relatively uncommon name (try your
own):

*Awesome repositories cross-search tool:* Harnad 140
hits<http://network.bepress.com/explore/?q=Harnad>
*Google Scholar:* Harnad 15,900
hits<http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=Harnad&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5>
 (author:Harnad:
1,010<http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=author%3AHarnad&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5>
 hits)
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