The likelihood is the user searched Google before they tried Pubmed or
ScienceDirect:
"Ingelfinger Over-Ruled harnad" comes up with an OA version as the top
match.
With OAI and OpenURL the OA version could be linked in as easily as the
aggregators currently linked to by PubMed (although perhaps not as
reliably, but then if you get a hit at least you know the version is
accessible).
While it would be nice for services to link to OA versions, it doesn't
take more than 30 seconds to copy/paste some appropriate keywords into
Google, which seems to do a good job of discovering an accessible version.
Tim Brody
Citebase Search:
http://citebase.eprints.org/
Received on Wed May 05 2004 - 17:17:27 BST