[Irtalk] Fwd: [GOAL] Google Scholar's Anurag Acharya on Repository Indexability

[Hilton Gibson]

FYI.

*Hilton Gibson*
Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator
Stellenbosch University Library
http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com>
Date: 17 June 2015 at 13:18
Subject: [GOAL] Google Scholar's Anurag Acharya on Repository Indexability
To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org>


Most repository queries and referrals come from google scholar and google
users. So it is crucial to get repository contents well indexed by google.

Here are some tips from Google Scholar's Anurag Acharya:
http://www.or2015.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/or-2015-anurag-google-scholar.pdf

This is a good occasion to repeat also an important fact about Open Access
Repositories:

OA Repositories' problem is not lack of searchability or of indexability or
of search/index tools and services.

Their problem is *lack of OA content.*

The cure is *effective OA mandates* -- not waiting for better search/index
tools.

Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe, Boivin, Jade, Gargouri, Yassine, Larivière,
Vincent and Harnad, Stevan (2015) Estimating Open Access Mandate
Effectiveness: I. The MELIBEA Score.
<http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370203/> (JASIST,
in press) http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370203/

Swan, Alma; Gargouri, Yassine; Hunt, Megan; & Harnad, Stevan (2015) *Open
Access Policy: Numbers, Analysis, Effectiveness*. Pasteur4OA Workpackage 3
Report. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/375854/

_______________________________________________
GOAL mailing list
GOAL at eprints.org
http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za/pipermail/irtalk/attachments/20150617/d2c8223c/attachment.html>