[WEB4LIB] Re: Welcome to the Schoogle Era

[Eric Hellman]

To the extent that Google Scholar uses DOI 
(unfortunately Google's crossref crawl has let 
most of the doi links escape, because of the 
details of early publisher implementations) and 
OpenURL capable services like WorldCat and 
PubMed, it's not true that Google is an end run 
around our work on the appropriate copy problem.

In other words, if Wiley (to pick an arbitrary 
publisher) had properly used doi's for their 
Google crawl, then every thing would work 
beautifully. Wiley can fix that- Google can't.

It's an easy thing to fix compared to the 
technical achievements apparent in this BETA 
service.


At 8:13 AM -0800 11/18/04, Thomas Dowling wrote:
>Eric Hellman wrote:
>
>>Google Scholar. Wow!
>> 
>>
>
>Yeah but...
>
>This goes a long way toward undoing the last three or four years of work
>on the appropriate copy problem.  Google knows an article exists: good. 
>Google points you to (and only to) some publisher's web site: maybe
>good, maybe bad.  You may have access there, in which case it's good. 
>You may have access to the same article online through a different
>aggregator, in which case it's remarkably bad.  There may be a print
>copy available to you, etc etc etc.  It's a sufficiently chronic problem
>that lots of us have thrown serious resources into services that answer
>the "Where is it available FOR ME?" question (namely, local citation
>resolvers) and Google Scholar does a swift end run around those resources.
>
>--
>Thomas Dowling
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu


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