[WEB4LIB] RE: Google Scholar

[Chan, Ian]

How is Google indexing the content within databases that require user
authentication to access?
Does the user still have to pay to view the full-text?

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Hellman [mailto:eric at openly.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 1:14 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Google Scholar

Shirl and Gary get a number of things flat-out wrong in their review.

1. Google IS crawling full text of publisher sites that are not
available without subscription, not just to open web.
2. You CAN use more than just author last name. Initials work quite
well.


>By the way, Shirl Kennedy and Gary Price have a review of Google
Scholar
>from a librarians' perspective:
>
>http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/11/wow-its-google-scholar.html
>
>Bernie Sloan


and YES, OpenURL link servers (such as ours) DO work with Google 
Scholar results where they have managed to capture the DOI.

Eric
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