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=Search
but 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 retrieves
the 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
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> Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History and Naturmuseum der
> Burgergemeinde Bern
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Received on Sat Oct 21 2006 - 14:29:28 BST