Re: Which databases can Google Scholar crawl?

Aggregators have always had that control.    That was also
the case in
terms of abstracting and indexing services as well.  The
only exception
might have been Wilson with its advisory boards.  Publishers
have had it
as well in terms of deciding what actually gets published
and then
picked by us.  

Bill Drew

>>> "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2yahoo.com> 2/19/2008 11:35 AM >>>
 
  Kathryn Silberger said:
   
  "It is important that as a profession we don't become
passive about
allowing publishers and aggregators to take control of
collection
development decisions."
   
  Don't aggregators do this already?
   
  Bernie Sloan

Kathryn Silberger <Kathryn.Silbergermarist.edu> wrote:
  
Alan's question, "Has anyone ever seen, or attempted, a
canonical
list?" is
a good one. This could be an activity of some ALA committee.
It is
certainly a crucial step in being able to evaluate GS as an
information
source. It is important that as a profession we don't become
passive
about
allowing publishers and aggregators to take control of
collection
development decisions.


Katy

Kathryn K. Silberger
Automation Resources Librarian
James A. Cannavino Library
Marist College
3399 North Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
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>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 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.

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James Cook University, Cairns

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