Re: Google's Scholarly Search Service and Institutional OA Self-Archiving

From: Leslie Chan <chan_at_utsc.utoronto.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:26:21 +0000

I imagine it would be relatively simple for Google to add a filter or
option to display only OA articles in the search results. That would
really tip the scale.

Leslie Chan

> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Leslie Carr wrote:
>
>> Google's new... http:///scholar.google.com [delivers]... a search
>> service... [that is selective for] scholarly and scientific resources...
>> from all web sites... across the complete spectrum of scholarly enquiry...
>> [plus] a basic level of citation analysis..
>
> An extremely valuable and welcome new service (and about time!):
>
> "Re: proposed collaboration: google + open citation linking" (2001)
> http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-general/2001-June/000035.html
>
>> [But] Google is not offering increased Open Access, just improved resource
>> discovery of current ad-hoc OA. To advance we still need to offer carrot
>> and stick, policies and mandates...
>>
>> [The] Google scholarly search engine is a welcome addition to
>> the arsenal of services that researchers use to mine the literature -
>> but it is still OA Institutional Repositories that provide the best
>> chance of getting readable copies of those papers into Google!
>
> In other words, please don't imagine that Google will now provide OA
> full-texts for you! Google is now selectively gathering and making them
> visible, and even providing some citation impact counts -- but it can
> only do that with those full-texts that have been made OA by putting
> them on the Web!
>
> Our estimates across disciplines indicate that currently at most only 20%
> of the journal articles being published today are being made OA:
>
> http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study/
> http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/ch.htm
> http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
>
> This wonderful new service from google should (as Les Carr indicates) be taken
> as yet another strong incentive for authors' institutions and research funders
> to mandate and reward OA -- and authors to do -- self-archiving of the
> remaining 80%!
>
> "What Provosts Need to Mandate" (2003)
> "http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3420.html"
>
> "University policy mandating self-archiving of research output" (2004)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3438.html
>
> "Mandating OA around the corner?"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3829.html
>
> "Guide for the Perplexed: Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4131.html
>
> "Critique of PSP/AAP Critique of NIH Proposal"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4146.html
>
> "Critique of STM Critique of NIH Proposal"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4174.html
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
> Relevant Prior Amsci Forum Topic Threads:
>
> "Citation-Linking" (1999)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0284.html
>
> "Economic effects of link-based search engines on e-journals" (2000)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0894.html
>
> "A Search Engine for Searching Across Distributed Eprint Archives"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0927.html
>
> "Testing the citation-ranking search engine: Citebase" (2002)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2121.html
>
> "Scientometric OAI Search Engines"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2237.html
>
> "Need for systematic scientometric analyses of open-access data"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2521.html
>
> "How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research" (2003)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2858.html
>
> "Measuring cumulating research impact loss across fields and time"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3212.html
>
> "Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3975.html
>
> "Early Download Impact Predicts Later Citation Impact"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3950.html
>
> "Self-Archiving Incentives: Download Impact Counts"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4085.html
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