[GOAL] Re: Searching for OA vs. Providing OA

2013-01-05 Thread Sally Morris
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

[GOAL] Re: Searching for OA vs. Providing OA

2013-01-05 Thread Arthur Sale
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