Re: Which databases can Google Scholar crawl?

 
  From the Wikipedia entry on Google Scholar:
   
  "A significant problem with GS is the secrecy about
its coverage...GS refuses to publish a list of scientific
journals crawled, and the frequency of its updates is
unknown. It is therefore impossible to know how current
and/or exhaustive searches are in GS."
   
  Bernie Sloan

Alan Cockerill <alan.cockerilljcu.edu.au> wrote:
  Hi

Has anyone ever seen a list of what providers have 'opened
up' their
indexing and abstracting data to Google Scholar? 

Clearly large free sources like Pubmed and Scirus can be
searched via
Scholar but what subscription-only dbs can be reliably
searched via Scholar?

Common sense tells me only fulltext providers would allow
crawling of the
I&A sections of their products as Scholar opens another
channel to potential
article purchasers.

Trial and error tells me that Emerald, JSTOR, Sage,
Informaworld and Ingenta
(somewhat patchily) have done this, and local Oz publisher
RMIT publishing
has allowed a couple of its fulltext datasets to be crawled
by Google as
well.

Has anyone ever seen, or attempted, a canonical list?

Thanks, Alan.

Alan Cockerill
Library Technologies Coordinator
James Cook University, Cairns 

PO Box 6811
CAIRNS QLD 4870
Phone: (07) 4042 1737
Fax: (07) 4042 1516
Email: Alan.Cockerilljcu.edu.au

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