Hi Stevan, Google Scholar is a very good fulltext scholarly search engine, no doubt about it. But it doesn't find all the ftxt available on the web, albeit it does a good job. Take e.g. one of my articles http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=17014920805021872143&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 GS found two PDF version's but not the one on our universities repository. That is still not fully indexed. Although it gets close http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/lang/380005 it found our metadata reocrd, but not the ftxt. I guess this is still the case with many repositories. Earlier this year it was even reported in the literature:
Arlitsch, K. & P.S. O'Brien (2012). Invisible institutional repositories: addressing the low indexing ratios of IRs in Google. Library Hi Tech, 30(1): 60-81 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831211213210 So Google Scholar is still not the cure all for all OA available in the world. Interestingly our repository is better indexed in the standard Google search engine rather than the Scholar version. So my point is, doing a search on GS, and finding a lot of hits still doesn't guarantee to find all the ftxt of those papers. Al the best Wouter From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: donderdag 3 januari 2013 2:09 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Cc: SPARC Open Access Forum; scholc...@ala.org T.F.; LibLicense-L Discussion Forum Subject: [GOAL] Re: New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search 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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