Re: Access to Self-Archived Research via Google Scholar

From: David Goodman <dgoodman_at_Princeton.EDU>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:02:40 -0400

It's even easier!

After finding the article on Google Scholar,
click below where it says "Web Search"

This automatically searches for the article in ordinary Google,
and it does find repository copies, including the one mentioned.

It's better to use Google Scholar first, because the web search it
constructs is often a more efficient one than one can do by oneself.

Google Scholar ha changed the way it works several times, all without
prior notice or even later announcement. Most librarians keep
up with the changes.


David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
previously:
Bibliographer and Research Librarian
Princeton University Library

dgoodman_at_princeton.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:00 am
Subject: Re: [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] Access to Self-Archived Research via Google Scholar
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG

> Donat Agosti writes that Google Scholar picks up the (non-OA) journal
> version of his article
>
> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=viaticus+was+tridecane&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Searchbut not the OA version self-archived in ZORA, the University of Zurich's
> excellent new (mandated!) Institutional Repository (IR):
>
> http://archives.eprints.org/?action=search&query=zora&submit=Search
> Google Scholar will catch up, and will cover all IRs soon enough.
> (For some silly
> and arbitrary reason, google selectively covers only some IRs right
> now!)
> http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=6866
> Meanwhile OAIster covers all registered OAI IRs
> http://www.openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html
> http://archives.eprints.org/
> and the exact same search you tried on Google Scholar immediately
> retrievesthe OA version of your paper on OAIster:
> http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-
> idx?c=oaister;page=simple
> If you want ZORA covered on Google Scholar, you need to write to:
> http://www.google.com/support/scholar/bin/request.py
>
> But neither Google Scholar nor OAIster can come into their own until
> enough researchers (like you) self-archive their articles (as you did,
> in ZORA).
>
> And, as Arthur Sale has just shown, in his article in First Monday,
> enough researchers will not self-archive until their institutions and
> funders mandate that they self-archive -- as University of Zurich plus
> 11 other institutions, including CERN, and 6 funders -- have
> already done.
>
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5716.html
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5717.html
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4855.html
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Donat Agosti wrote:
>
> > What would it need that self [archived papers should] be indexed by
> > google scholar, so that those articles could be found
> >
> > search for example for
> > "viaticus was tridecane"
> >
> > Then you end up in this paper
> >
> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=viaticus+was+tridecane&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Se> arch
> >
> > It is it the original paper, which is copyrighted, and there is
> not hint
> > that the paper is actually also on ZORA open access.
> >
> >
> http://www.zora.unizh.ch/zora/handle/2379/4727?mode=full&submit_simple=Show+> full+item+record
> >
> > Ideally, it should show up, since then it would be more often used
> >
> > Dr. Donat Agosti
> > Science Consultant
> > Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History and
> Naturmuseum der
> > Burgergemeinde Bern
> > Email: agosti_at_amnh.org
> > Web: http://antbase.org
> > Blog: http://biodivcontext.blogspot.com/
> > Skype: agostileu
> > CV
> > Current Location
> > Dalmaziquai 45
> > 3005 Bern
> > Switzerland
> > +41-31-351 7152
> >
>
Received on Sun Oct 22 2006 - 05:07:08 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Dec 10 2010 - 19:48:32 GMT