Repositories of Latin America have little visibility in Google Scholar | SciELO in Perspective

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-09-20

Summary:

[From Google's English] "The auto archiving is the way to publish in open access (AA) academic literature is original research, theses, study or broadcast material, and other activities related to scientific knowledge. Unsurprisingly most universities maintain institutional repositories, in Latin America, but mainly in developed countries. To ensure that these efforts meet your goals with the most direct and comprehensive procedure is knowing that presence and impact are the repositories on the Web, especially in the major search engines are Google and Google Scholar (GS). A recent article 'Are Latin-American repositories invisible on Google and Google Scholar¹' revealed remarkably poor results compared to the expectations of the researchers, the reason for that was an interesting discussion on INCYT² network in the last week of June last. We will review this post possible reasons that could explain the poor performance of repositories, and also the questioning of this medium as a tool to increase the visibility and therefore the scientific impact, the conclusions of the discussion in INCYT, and additional technical material aportaremos for its justification ..."

Link:

http://blog.scielo.org/blog/2014/09/18/repositorios-da-america-latina-tem-pouca-visibilidade-no-google-scholar/#.VB4YMiuwJIs

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.spanish oa.ir oa.green oa.google oa.indexing oa.impact oa.latin_america oa.repositories oa.south oa.google_scholar

Date tagged:

09/20/2014, 20:17

Date published:

09/20/2014, 16:17