[Dspace-general] Google Scholar

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi Mark,

Contacting them directly, as Ina mentions, is usually the fastest way.
But they also monitor the DSpace site registration page on the wiki
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//DspaceInstances
to look for new sites to include. They will even negotiate to
crawl your site more often, if that becomes an issue for you.

Best,

MacKenzie:
> Hallo Mark
>  
> 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.
>  
> Visit Support for Scholarly Publishers 
> <http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/publishers.html>  and go to:
>  
> *I'm a publisher of scholarly works and would like to have my content 
> included in Google and Google Scholar?
>
> *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 contact us 
> <http://www.google.com/support/scholar/bin/request.py> to discuss the 
> details.
>  
> Regards,
> Ina
>  
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> >>> <mark.merifield at biomedcentral.com> 2006/10/13 12:57 PM >>>
>
> Does anyone know what the situation is currently regarding Google 
> Scholar's indexing of DSpace repos?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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