Regarding my original mail to this forum, copied to Google, I received the following answer. I think that others might be interested in this information and that is why I am posting a copy.
Cheers, Imre Simon Subject: Re: [#17165681] To what extent does google scholar include papers in OAI-compliant repositories? Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:15:13 -0800 From: Google Scholar <[email protected]> To: Imre Simon <[email protected]> Thank you for your interest in adding content to Google Scholar. This is an automated response. Please be assured that we read every email we receive about Google Scholar; however, we're currently focusing our resources on adding sources and developing new features. If you've sent us the URLs at which your articles appear, we'll add them to our list for inclusion. If you'd like your articles to be added, but you didn't include their URLs, please send them in a reply to this email. We're actively working to expand our index, and this process can take awhile. If some, but not all, of your articles from a particular source are included, it's likely that we'll add the rest soon. We appreciate your patience. Thank you for your assistance in improving Google Scholar. Regards, The Google Team Imre Simon wrote:
Hi everybody, I am just wondering if someone could tell me when a paper resident in an OAI-compliant repository will be included in google scholar, with an explicit pointer to the paper in the compliant repository? As far as I could discover empirically scholar does not harvest from citeseer. Is this correct? I also found that two papers in a (now defunct) eprints server had different destinations in scholar: one of them is included while the other one is not. What does it take for a self-archived paper to be included in google scholar? Further, I also found that scholar includes some papers it finds on the net while it does not include other papers found on the same site. Again, what does it take for a paper found on the net (and present in the main google archives) to be included in google scholar? Since previous discussions on this list seemed to assume silently that every self-archived paper is included in scholar I thought it would be interesting to discover, with some precision, to what extent this hypothesis is correct or not. I did not find precise statements on Google clarifying any of the above questions. I am copying <[email protected]> on this message. Cheers, Imre Simon
