Result of Moderator vote

2008-10-17 Thread Sally Morris
102 people, just over 10% of the list membership, voted (I cannot be more precise as I notice that some people appear to be signed up under more than one email address).  This is, obviously, a self-selected sample but whether that could be expected to introduce bias (other than to exclude those

Re: Google/Google Scholar merge?

2008-10-17 Thread Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Puzzled by Les's posting - Google Scholar already identifies 'green' sources of documents, doesn't it? Sally Sally Morris Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy) South House, The Street Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Tel: +44(0)1903 871286 Fax: +44(0)8701 202806

HKU URC endorsement of the Open Access Advantage

2008-10-17 Thread David Palmer
HKU Research Committee Agrees to Endorse a Paper on the Open Acccess Advantage   The University Research Committee of the University of Hong Kong at their September meeting discussed a paper describing the benefits of placing research results in open access, freely available to everyone.   

Re: Google/Google Scholar merge?

2008-10-17 Thread Garret McMahon
Both Stephen Downes [ http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=45607 ] and Stuart Lewis [ http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2008/08/13/google-bring-scholar-richness-into-normal-search-results/ ] posted on this back in August. Regards, Garret 2008/10/16 Leslie Carr l...@ecs.soton.ac.uk: This may be

Re: Google/Google Scholar merge?

2008-10-17 Thread Tim Gray, Homerton College Library
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-

Re: Google/Google Scholar merge?

2008-10-17 Thread Leslie Carr
On 17 Oct 2008, at 09:27, Sally Morris (Morris Associates) wrote: Puzzled by Les's posting - Google Scholar already identifies 'green' sources of documents, doesn't it? What I mean is that (a) Google Scholar is a service that few people are using (just look at the stats for repository usage)