[Dspace-general] Google Scholar inclusion of DSpace repositories

[Steve Thomas]

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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