CHEER-LEADING, CHALLENGES AND REALITY What is missing and needed is not "awesome repositories cross-search tools."
What is missing and needed is OA repository deposits, and OA deposit mandates. The repositories are mostly empty. And Google Scholar finds what OA content there is -- wherever it is on the web -- incomparably better than "awesome repositories cross-search tools." Here is just a sample vanity search on a relatively uncommon name (try your own): *Awesome repositories cross-search tool:* Harnad 140 hits<http://network.bepress.com/explore/?q=Harnad> *Google Scholar:* Harnad 15,900 hits<http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=Harnad&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5> (author:Harnad: 1,010<http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=author%3AHarnad&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5> hits)
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