Hello everyone,
I would like to grasp the current Invenio / Google Scholar status of
interaction (as far as this is possible with a google indexing service).
As I understand, recent Invenio versions (>1.0) use meta tags that are
compatible with google scholar, which is a strong prerequisite for
inclusion in scholar.
However, I suppose that this alone does not guarantee that the site
(that is properly searched by google) will have all articles in scholar
too...
It is stated in the relevant google doc that all documents must be
reachable by the bot ("We recommend that the URL of every article is
reachable from the homepage by following at most ten simple HTML
links"). Does this mean that restricted collections (and/or fulltext
documents) will decrease the possibility of the site being included in
scholar?
Do you think that exporting collections via OAI increases that chances
that articles from a specific collection will be found in scholar?
Does one have to complete this file
http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/institutional_links.xml (as
stated in http://invenio-software.org/ticket/902) for each Invenio
collection, or is this used only for collections of articles found in
journals? (By the way, is there any updates regarding this enhancement
request ticket?)
Is there something else that one could do in their Invenio repositories
in order to 'boost' the possibility of inclusion in google scholar?
(being referenced by many sites would do the trick, but one cannot rely
only on that)
Lastly, is there a way to 'suggest' google scholar to link to the
'detailed record' page instead of just the doc/pdf so that all localy
produced (rich) metadata are shown to the end user?
I understand that I'm probably asking for too much, but I would like to
see Invenio in the list of google scholar supported repositories (right
now there is only DSpace, ePrints and DigitalCommons), as it offers so
much more than it's competitors! This also means that us Invenio users
should do whatever we can to 'promote' our chosen software and create a
strong presence for it in google scholar.
Thanks for your time,
Best regards,
Theodoros Theodoropoulos
