Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com currently has 3,630 items for Dspace and 16,100 for Eprints. I expect both are undercounts. Eprints certainly is, otherwise the figure would be at the very least 55,000 (for the Eprints subset harvested by celestial) http://celestial.eprints.org/cgi-bin/eprints.org/graph or at the very-very-very least 31,688: http://www.eprints.org/
I hope Google Scholar will cover these two sets of scholarly full-text sites more fully. They are likely to provide the richest source of scholarly full-texts. Regular Google, for example, already carries 210,000 items from Eprints, so they are in there! Just a matter of porting them to Google Scholar! The fact that the item is in Eprints or Dspace should be a criterion in scholar.google's identification rule. So should the fact that it comes form an OAI-compliant site. Stevan Harnad On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Peter Suber wrote: > [Forwarding from the DSpace-general list. --Peter.] > > > Hi all, > > I wanted to mention that the new Google Scholar search > (http://scholar.google.com) is including items from > DSpace repositories in the results, as long as they're open for harvesting > the full-text. I did notice that some > institutions running DSpace that should be there aren't yet, so I've asked > Google why they're missing. > > It can be a little tricky to figure out if you're institution is getting > included or not -- search some known items > from your repository and plow through all the results, and be sure to check > all the versions since your copy > might not be one of the first listed. If you're there, great, and if you're > not (and want to be) then first make > sure your repository's web server isn't blocking crawlers, and then write > to me or them directly > ([email protected]) to make sure they crawl your site. > > They also wanted me to mention that if you have limited access material > that you would like to get indexed > by Google but not cached by them for display, they're very interested in > working with you. For example, at > MIT we have some book titles from the MIT Press in our DSpace repository > which are only available for free > to the MIT community. Google proposes to index them, but not cache them, so > that when a searcher finds > one of them in a result set in google.com they're returned to DSpace to > view the item and can get to the > Press's online ordering system from there. More traffic for the book, more > money for the Press. Let me > know if you're interested in this and I'll put you in touch with the Google > folks. Remember: if your DSpace > content is freely available to the public then Google and the other web > search engines should *already* be > harvesting it so you don't need to do anything... > > MacKenzie > > > MacKenzie Smith > Associate Director for Technology > MIT Libraries > Building E25-131d > 77 Massachusetts Avenue > Cambridge, MA 02139 > (617)253-8184 > [email protected]
