I am sure this was covered some months ago. Google Scholar results appearing in 'vanilla' Google (presumably this is about the same thing?). For example Peter Suber on 14 August 2008 who is quoting Stuart Lewis's blog <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/08/google-scholar-results-starting- to.html>:
[quote:] Stuart Lewis, Google bring Scholar richness into normal search results, Stuart Lewis' Blog, August 13, 2008. "Some good news for open access repository advocates: It seems that the normal Google search engine has now started bringing the richness of Google Scholar results into the main Google search results. This extra information includes: The (first) author's name Links to papers that have cited it Links to related articles Links to other versions For me this is great news. When we go out selling repositories to academics, one of our arguments is "your paper will appear in Google Scholar, and other specialist search engines such as Intute Repository Search and OAIster. However, if we are honest, how many people use these, and I'm including Google Scholar in this, as their first point of call? Not many I suspect...." [end quote] Of course, some of the links are to subscription only sources and are mostly inaccessible to those outside institutions that can afford the subscriptions. I am sure I read somewhere, long ago when Google Scholar was launched, that it was based on a *subset* of 'vanilla' Google's data. Was this true then, or ever true, or still true? Tim Gray Library Assistant Homerton College Library -----Original Message----- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Frank McCown Sent: 16 October 2008 14:31 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Google/Google Scholar merge? I haven't seen any formal announcements, but I think this is part of Google's larger strategy of merging results from multiple sources (news, images, etc.) into a single results page, what they call universal search. http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/universalsearch_20070516.html Regards, Frank On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Stevan Harnad <amscifo...@gmail.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Leslie Carr <lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk> > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:05:14 +0100 > Subject: Google/Google Scholar merge? > To: JISC-REPOSITORIES -- jiscmail.ac.uk > > I was just using Google to search for items in repositories when I > noticed that some Google results have Google Scholar data associated > with them - author name, year of publication, number of citations and > links to the Google scholar records. > > See the following examples: > (EPrints Soton) > http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us& q=site%3Aeprints.soton.ac.uk+%22institutional+repositories%22&btnG=Search > > (DSpace MIT) > http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us& q=site%3Adspace.mit.edu+%22digital+preservation%22&btnG=Search > > I'm not aware of any announcements about this. Does anyone have any > more information? > > On closer inspection, it seems that any of the versions of a paper > that Google Scholar has identified will appear with the enhanced > information - whether in a repository or on a publisher's website or > an author's home page. The author names are sometimes somewhat awry - > you will often see authors listed as "Submission R" because the paper > is listed under Recent Submissions or similar. > > The vast majority of repository usage comes from Google, not Google > scholar, and so this development is very welcome because it allows > users to see some kind of scholarly perspective on top of Google's > (and the Web's) model of individual document resources. > -- > Les Carr > -- Frank McCown, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Harding University http://www.harding.edu/fmccown/