Gary F. Daught wrote:
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> Second, I noticed you referred to REPOSITORY indexing services. Here I
> think we may encounter a disciplinary difference. In the humanities,
> and especially religious studies/theology, I believe the growth of
> open access has a much better shot via the JOURNALS (Go
too, this brings me back to the original point: Google is
> great. But can/ought we continue to rely so heavily on Google (or
> Bing/Academic Search, etc.) to assure continued indexing to open access
> literature?
>
> Good weekend to all!
>
> Gary F. Daught
> Omega Alpha | Open
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> research parallel to developments in open access?
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I'm finding these sentiments puzzling. There are many repository indexing
services, such as OAIster, BASE, OpenAIRE and any number of indexing services
from the DRIVER stable. (There's also Bing and Microsoft Academic Search.) None
of these get much use because Google is so dominant, but there A
Gary F. Daught
> Omega Alpha | Open Access
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:35:25 +
>> From: Les A Carr
>> Subject: [GOAL] Re: Google's role in sustaining the public good to
>> researchparallel to devel
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Omega Alpha Open Access <
oa.openacc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Les,
>
> Greetings. I wasn't questioning the public good Google has contributed *to
> date*, and I know they aren't the only game in town. However, they are the
> dominant player. To the degree that indexi
interested in hearing what anyone has to say. Thanks!
Gary F. Daught
Omega Alpha | Open Access
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:35:25 +
> From: Les A Carr
> Subject: [GOAL] Re: Google's role in sustaining the public good to
> researchparallel to devel
It is easy to forget that they are a commercial company and not an official
part of the web architecture. However, they are only a commercial company, and
just one of the myriad web indexers that account for about 50% of the visits to
any OA repository.
They have contributed significant public
