[WEB4LIB] Re: Google Scholar

[Kathleen Shearer]

Hi Jennifer,

By institutional repositories I am referring to the relatively new platforms that some libraries are implementing to collect research papers, etc. created at their institution. For example, the eScholarship Repository at the University of California (http://repositories.cdlib.org/ahc/) or DSpace at MIT (http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/)

These repositories often provide free access to papers that have been previously published in subscription-based journals. 
I think it would be nice to have access to the free version of a paper through the Google Scholars if there is one available, as well as the publishers version.

Kathleen



Kathleen Shearer
Research Associate
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
(514) 847-9068
mkshearer at videotron.ca
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jennifer Heise 
  To: mkshearer at videotron.ca ; web4lib at webjunction.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 10:24 AM
  Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Re: Google Scholar


  Kathleen Shearer wrote:

  > Contrary to what has been reported in some of the articles about Google Scholar, I don't think the content in institutional repositories is being made available through the service (even though some IR content *is* accessible through the regular Google). On the other hand, content from several disciplinary archives (eg. arXiv) has been included.

  Ok, I know I'm a little slow on the uptake, but what do we mean by 
  'institutional respositories' in this context?

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