Both Stephen Downes [
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=45607
] and Stuart Lewis [
http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2008/08/13/google-bring-scholar-richness-into-normal-search-results/
] posted on this back in August.
Regards,
Garret
2008/10/16 Leslie Carr <lac_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
> This may be a small change in the user interface, but it is a large
> step in the convergence between "green" open access resources
> (repositories) and publisher resources. Now researchers will be able
> to find (together, in one place) the various for-free and for-pay
> manifestations of a publication, and then they can make informed
> decisions about whether the preprint, author's postprint or published
> version will satisfy their requirements.
>
> Of course, they could have done that through Google Scholar, but most
> researchers aren't using Google Scholar, and they would have to use
> two different services for different types of information.
> --
> Les Carr
>
>
>
> On 16 Oct 2008, at 14:31, Frank McCown wrote:
>
>> I haven't seen any formal announcements, but I think this is part of
>> Google's larger strategy of merging results from multiple sources
>> (news, images, etc.) into a single results page, what they call
>> universal search.
>>
>> http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/universalsearch_20070516.html
>>
>> Regards,
>> Frank
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Stevan Harnad
>> <amsciforum_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Leslie Carr <lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>>> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:05:14 +0100
>>> Subject: Google/Google Scholar merge?
>>> To: JISC-REPOSITORIES -- jiscmail.ac.uk
>>>
>>> I was just using Google to search for items in repositories when I
>>> noticed that some Google results have Google Scholar data associated
>>> with them - author name, year of publication, number of citations and
>>> links to the Google scholar records.
>>>
>>> See the following examples:
>>> (EPrints Soton)
>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=site%3Aeprints.soton.ac.uk+%22institutional+repositories%22&btnG=Search
>>>
>>> (DSpace MIT)
>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=site%3Adspace.mit.edu+%22digital+preservation%22&btnG=Search
>>>
>>> I'm not aware of any announcements about this. Does anyone have any
>>> more information?
>>>
>>> On closer inspection, it seems that any of the versions of a paper
>>> that Google Scholar has identified will appear with the enhanced
>>> information - whether in a repository or on a publisher's website or
>>> an author's home page. The author names are sometimes somewhat awry -
>>> you will often see authors listed as "Submission R" because the paper
>>> is listed under Recent Submissions or similar.
>>>
>>> The vast majority of repository usage comes from Google, not Google
>>> scholar, and so this development is very welcome because it allows
>>> users to see some kind of scholarly perspective on top of Google's
>>> (and the Web's) model of individual document resources.
>>> --
>>> Les Carr
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Frank McCown, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor of Computer Science
>> Harding University
>> http://www.harding.edu/fmccown/
>
Received on Fri Oct 17 2008 - 19:03:24 BST