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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:59:52 +1100
From: Arthur Sale <ahjs at ozemail.com.au>
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: Re: Google's Scholarly Search Service and Institutional OA
Self-Archiving
Prior Amsci Topic Threads:
"Self-Archiving Incentives: Download Impact Counts"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4085.html
We are seeing increased access rates to our Eprints repository through
Scholar Google, but even more interestingly, we are seeing visitors arrive
directly at the pdf full-text file, rather than at the metadata page as an
OAI-PMH harvesting search engine would be likely to do. There are advantages
and disadvantages to each approach of course; the metadata page is the one
with the persistent URL, and it has the upload date and a link to
statistics. This link takes you to a typical page showing several visitors
who bypassed the metadata page
http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=43;year=0;month=0;range=4w.
My analysis suggests that Scholar Google is finding the pdf files through
the Eprints browse pages, which eventually list every metadata html page.
>From thence it finds the pdf files and indexes them as well. Serendipitous
design by Eprints!
Arthur
Arthur Sale
University of Tasmania
