Hi Wouter,<div><br></div><div>does your repository comply with Google Scholar's inclusion guidelines?</div><div><a href="http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#overview">http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#overview</a><div>
<br></div><div>In case it does not comply to all guidelines, can you highlight to which extent you are deviating from the guidelines and what the reason is?</div><div>This can be very valuable feedback for those repositories still configuring or customising to achieve compliance.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Bram Luyten</div><div><br>-- <br><span></span>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Gerritsma, Wouter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Wouter.Gerritsma@wur.nl" target="_blank">Wouter.Gerritsma@wur.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi Stevan,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Google Scholar is a very good fulltext scholarly search engine, no doubt about it. But it doesn’t find all the ftxt available on the web, albeit it does a good
job. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Take e.g. one of my articles
<a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=17014920805021872143&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5" target="_blank">
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=17014920805021872143&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5</a> GS found two PDF version’s but not the one on our universities repository. That is still not fully indexed. Although it gets close
<a href="http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/lang/380005" target="_blank">http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/lang/380005</a> it found our metadata reocrd, but not the ftxt.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I guess this is still the case with many repositories. Earlier this year it was even reported in the literature:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Arlitsch, K. & P.S. O'Brien (2012).
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Invisible institutional repositories: addressing the low indexing ratios of IRs in Google. Library Hi Tech, 30(1): 60-81 <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831211213210" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831211213210</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So Google Scholar is still not the cure all for all OA available in the world. Interestingly our repository is better indexed in the standard Google search
engine rather than the Scholar version.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So my point is, doing a search on GS, and finding a lot of hits still doesn’t guarantee to find all the ftxt of those papers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Al the best Wouter
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stevan Harnad<br>
<b>Sent:</b> donderdag 3 januari 2013 2:09</span></p><div class="im"><br>
<b>To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br>
</div><b>Cc:</b> SPARC Open Access Forum; <a href="mailto:scholcomm@ala.org" target="_blank">scholcomm@ala.org</a> T.F.; LibLicense-L Discussion Forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Re: New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search<u></u><u></u><p></p><div class="im">
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is missing and needed is not "awesome repositories cross-search tools." <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is missing and needed is OA repository deposits, and OA deposit mandates. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And Google Scholar finds what OA content there is -- wherever it is on the web -- incomparably better than "awesome repositories cross-search tools."<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is just a sample vanity search on a relatively uncommon name (try your own):<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Awesome repositories cross-search tool:</b> Harnad <a href="http://network.bepress.com/explore/?q=Harnad" target="_blank">140 hits</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Google Scholar:</b> Harnad <a href="http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=Harnad&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5" target="_blank">15,900 hits</a> (author:Harnad: <a href="http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=author%3AHarnad&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5" target="_blank">1,010</a> hits)<u></u><u></u></p>
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