[GOAL] Re: Google Scholar's Anurag Acharya on Repository Indexability

[Wilhelmina Randtke]

Nope, this presentation doesn't mean that content is the only thing that
matters.

The presentation gives specific ways to ensure repository content is
indexed in Google web search and in Google Scholar.  Some of this is for
developers, but lots of it is easy for a non technical person to do - like
making a sitemap available.  And, when something is easy to do in a popular
repository platform, the presentation notes that - like hey there's a
setting in Dspace to turn on a sitemap.

Being easy to find matters and this has good info on that.  Has anyone out
there not been asked by a faculty member whether stuff in the repository
will show in Google Scholar?

-Wilhelmina Randtke

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:

> Most repository queries and referrals come from google scholar and google
> users. So it is crucial to get repository contents well indexed by google.
>
> Here are some tips from Google Scholar's Anurag Acharya:
>
> http://www.or2015.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/or-2015-anurag-google-scholar.pdf
>
> This is a good occasion to repeat also an important fact about Open Access
> Repositories:
>
> OA Repositories' problem is not lack of searchability or of indexability
> or of search/index tools and services.
>
> Their problem is *lack of OA content.*
>
> The cure is *effective OA mandates* -- not waiting for better
> search/index tools.
>
> Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe, Boivin, Jade, Gargouri, Yassine, Larivière,
> Vincent and Harnad, Stevan (2015) Estimating Open Access Mandate
> Effectiveness: I. The MELIBEA Score. <http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370203/> (JASIST,
> in press) http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370203/
>
> Swan, Alma; Gargouri, Yassine; Hunt, Megan; & Harnad, Stevan (2015) *Open
> Access Policy: Numbers, Analysis, Effectiveness*. Pasteur4OA Workpackage
> 3 Report. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/375854/
>
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