I imagine it would be relatively simple for Google to add a filter or option to display only OA articles in the search results. That would really tip the scale.
Leslie Chan > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Leslie Carr wrote: > >> Google's new... http:///scholar.google.com [delivers]... a search >> service... [that is selective for] scholarly and scientific resources... >> from all web sites... across the complete spectrum of scholarly enquiry... >> [plus] a basic level of citation analysis.. > > An extremely valuable and welcome new service (and about time!): > > "Re: proposed collaboration: google + open citation linking" (2001) > http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-general/2001-June/000035.html > >> [But] Google is not offering increased Open Access, just improved resource >> discovery of current ad-hoc OA. To advance we still need to offer carrot >> and stick, policies and mandates... >> >> [The] Google scholarly search engine is a welcome addition to >> the arsenal of services that researchers use to mine the literature - >> but it is still OA Institutional Repositories that provide the best >> chance of getting readable copies of those papers into Google! > > In other words, please don't imagine that Google will now provide OA > full-texts for you! Google is now selectively gathering and making them > visible, and even providing some citation impact counts -- but it can > only do that with those full-texts that have been made OA by putting > them on the Web! > > Our estimates across disciplines indicate that currently at most only 20% > of the journal articles being published today are being made OA: > > http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study/ > http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/ch.htm > http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html > > This wonderful new service from google should (as Les Carr indicates) be taken > as yet another strong incentive for authors' institutions and research funders > to mandate and reward OA -- and authors to do -- self-archiving of the > remaining 80%! > > "What Provosts Need to Mandate" (2003) > "http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3420.html"; > > "University policy mandating self-archiving of research output" (2004) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3438.html > > "Mandating OA around the corner?" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3829.html > > "Guide for the Perplexed: Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4131.html > > "Critique of PSP/AAP Critique of NIH Proposal" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4146.html > > "Critique of STM Critique of NIH Proposal" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4174.html > > Stevan Harnad > > Relevant Prior Amsci Forum Topic Threads: > > "Citation-Linking" (1999) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0284.html > > "Economic effects of link-based search engines on e-journals" (2000) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0894.html > > "A Search Engine for Searching Across Distributed Eprint Archives" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0927.html > > "Testing the citation-ranking search engine: Citebase" (2002) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2121.html > > "Scientometric OAI Search Engines" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2237.html > > "Need for systematic scientometric analyses of open-access data" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2521.html > > "How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research" (2003) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2858.html > > "Measuring cumulating research impact loss across fields and time" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3212.html > > "Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3975.html > > "Early Download Impact Predicts Later Citation Impact" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3950.html > > "Self-Archiving Incentives: Download Impact Counts" > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4085.html
