<div><div>CHEER-LEADING, CHALLENGES AND REALITY</div><div><br></div><div>What is missing and needed is not "awesome repositories cross-search tools." </div><div><br></div><div>What is missing and needed is OA repository deposits, and OA deposit mandates. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The repositories are mostly empty. </div><div><br></div><div>And Google Scholar finds what OA content there is -- wherever it is on the web -- incomparably better than "awesome repositories cross-search tools."</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here is just a sample vanity search on a relatively uncommon name (try your own):</div><div><br></div><div><b>Awesome repositories cross-search tool:</b> Harnad <a href="http://network.bepress.com/explore/?q=Harnad">140 hits</a></div>
<div><b>Google Scholar:</b> Harnad <a href="http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=Harnad&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5">15,900 hits</a> (author:Harnad: <a href="http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=author%3AHarnad&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5">1,010</a> hits)</div>
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