[WEB4LIB] Re: Google Scholar

[Roy Tennant]

The UC eScholarship Repository was mentioned, although the URL was 
slightly off (see <http://repositories.cdlib.org/>). Although we store 
our metadata in a highly granular form within a database, we write out 
static HTML pages for each repository paper, which means we are 
eminently "crawlable" by Google and others. At one time we even figured 
out that easily 40% of our usage was brought to us by Google. We use 
the bepress or "Digital Commons" platform.
Roy

On Nov 24, 2004, at 8:42 AM, S.J.Newman at brighton.ac.uk wrote:

> 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?
>
>   --
>   /   Jennifer Heise, Helpdesk/Librarian, Email: jahb at lehigh.edu
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