[Dspace-general] what does Google Scholar search?

[Robert Tansley]

Hello,
Google Scholar is more-or-less like regular Google search -- it crawls the
Web-accessible content on your DSpace site, including metadata on the item
display pages, and the full content of any bitstreams that are publicly
accessible. Of course, Scholar does more specialised indexing than regular
google.com search, such as analysing citations in the full text and so
forth. So the metadata and full text should both be indexed.

You also need to ensure your site can be indexed: see
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Ensuring_your_instance_is_indexed

(A web crawl is more useful that OAI-PMH for this, as OAI-PMH tends to
expose only a subset of metadata, and often has no link to the fulltext.)

Hope this helps,

Rob

2009/8/6 Platt, Alice <a.platt at snhu.edu>

>  I feel like I should be able to find the answer to this, but since things
> have changed over the years I feel I should ask the community to make sure
> of the answer.
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>
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> What exactly is Google Scholar searching when it crawls into our DSpace
> repositories?
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> Does it search our metadata?
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> Can it conduct a full-text search of bitstreams in DSpace?
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> Thanks in advance for your response.
>
>
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> Alice Platt
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> Digital Initiatives Librarian
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> Shapiro Library
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> Southern New Hampshire University
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