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<DIV>Hallo Mark</DIV>
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<DIV>I have contacted Google Scholar regarding this once, and they are willing to index institutional repositories. You need to let them know about your respository though by e-mailing them - the same way publishers register for indexing with them.</DIV>
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<DIV>Visit <A href="http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/publishers.html">Support for Scholarly Publishers</A> and go to:</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>I'm a publisher of scholarly works and would like to have my content included in Google and Google Scholar?<BR><BR></STRONG>Your content is most welcome. If your works are already online, we may need nothing more than your permission for our crawlers to visit your site. As noted above, an abstract (at least) of each work must be available to non-subscribers who come from Google and Google Scholar. Please <A href="http://www.google.com/support/scholar/bin/request.py">contact us</A> to discuss the details.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Ina</DIV>
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<DIV>Ina Smith <BR>E-Application Specialist & UPSpace Platform Manager<BR>Academic Information Service<BR>University of Pretoria</DIV>
<DIV>Pretoria<BR>0002<BR>South Africa</DIV>
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<DIV>Tel.: +27 12 420 3082<BR>Fax: +27 12 362 5100<BR>E-mail: <A href="mailto:ina.smith@up.ac.za">ina.smith@up.ac.za</A> <BR><A href="http://www.ais.up.ac.za/">http://www.ais.up.ac.za</A> </DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone know what the situation is currently regarding Google Scholar's indexing of DSpace repos?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mark</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mark Merifield</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Open Repository</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> Project Manager</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>BioMed Central</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Middlesex House</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>34-42 Cleveland Street</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>London W1T 4LB</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>+44 (0)20 7631 9954</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT> <BR><A href="http://www.openrepository.com/"><U><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>http://www.openrepository.com</FONT></U></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT> </P><PRE>This email has been scanned by Postini.
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