[WEB4LIB] Re: Google Scholar

[S.J.Newman at brighton.ac.uk]

I mailed the Google Scholar team with a similar question. 

Specifically I asked if they are harvesting metadata from OAI-PMH compliant
repositories. My understanding is that Google's crawlers are unaware of the
OAI-PMH and that exposing the content of an IR involves converting the
content to a format which Google is able to consume. 

They've acknowledged my email but haven't yet given me the information I
requested!

Steve Newman
Networked Information Services Manager
University of Brighton, UK
+44 (0)1273 642637



-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Kathleen Shearer
Sent: 24 November 2004 16:03
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Google Scholar

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 Scholars Portal 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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