[Web4lib] Which databases can Google Scholar crawl?

[baiget at sarenet.es]

Three years ago or so, Google requested permission to publishers who
distribute journals through MetaPress to index them.
We agreed, and I think that most MetaPress' publishers agreed as well.

No idea about an exhautive list.

Regards,

Tomas Baiget
Journal "El Profesional de la Informacion" (EPI)
Indexed by Thomson ISI Social SCI , Scopus, et al.
English articles accepted
Full text:
1992-2006
http://www.elprofesionaldelainformacion.com
2000-current (subscribers only)
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com


El Mar, 19 de Febrero de 2008, 5:46 am, Alan Cockerill escribió:
> Hi
>
>
> Has anyone ever seen a list of what providers have 'opened up' their
> indexing and abstracting data to Google Scholar?
>
> Clearly large free sources like Pubmed and Scirus can be searched via
> Scholar but what subscription-only dbs can be reliably searched via
> Scholar?
>
>
> Common sense tells me only fulltext providers would allow crawling of the
>  I&A sections of their products as Scholar opens another channel to
> potential article purchasers.
>
> Trial and error tells me that Emerald, JSTOR, Sage, Informaworld and
> Ingenta
> (somewhat patchily) have done this, and local Oz publisher RMIT publishing
>  has allowed a couple of its fulltext datasets to be crawled by Google as
>  well.
>
> Has anyone ever seen, or attempted, a canonical list?
>
>
> Thanks, Alan.
>
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