[Dspace-general] Google Scholar inclusion of DSpace repositories

[MacKenzie Smith]

Thanks for the reminder about the Google "site:" limiter, Steve, that's 
very handy.
And a colleague here reminded me that you can further limit the search to 
your production
DSpace server (e.g. "site:dspace.mit.edu") if you want to see just results 
from DSpace
and not the entire campus... helpful in figuring out how far behind they 
are in harvesting
(answer: very).

MacKenzie

At 01:58 PM 12/1/2004 +1030, Steve Thomas wrote:
>MacKenzie Smith wrote:
>
>>...
>>It can be a little tricky to figure out if you're institution is getting 
>>included or not
>
>Actually, you can simple incude "site:youruni.edu" as a search term to 
>limit results to just your institution (or part thereof). Among other 
>things, this usefully reveals something of the extent of self-archiving at 
>your university.
>
>In our case, the result was interestingly low -- around 1330 items. (We 
>don't yet have an IR.) No-one seems to know exactly what criteria Google 
>are using for inclusion, but I suspect they are using citation as one of 
>their major criteria -- after indexing known sites (such as PubMed) they 
>are then spidering from citations so far included. This might explain 
>their inclusion of multiple versions of the same article from different 
>sites, and might be the basis of their "Cited by" counts.
>
>If anyone knows more, I'm all ears.
>
>Steve
>
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