It's my understanding that Google (and Google Scholar) find published
articles because the publishers enable crawling - whether the content is
freely available or not (if I'm oversimplifying, someone will no doubt set
me right). Are repository managers unintentionally blocking this?
Sally
Sall
Sally
The situation is much more complex than this. Yep, oversimplifying, but it's
natural. Publishers' sites are crawled by Googlebot because (a) robots are
allowed in to the public areas of publisher sites, and (b) there are
relatively few publishers, well indexed. Google Scholar is a select