Coverage of Nature Precedings by academic search engines
Santosh Patnaik
Wednesday, 04 July 2007 10:22 UTC
One can assume that Nature Precedings content will soon be discoverable on Google Scholar, Windows Live Academic, OAIster, etc. (currently it is not so: Wikipedia article). That will greatly facilitate dissemination of the preprints.
I wonder if Nature Precedings complies with OAI-PMH, and if so, what the policies are regarding harvesting by others.
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Other academic search engines that too hopefully will cover Precedings content soon:
1. Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, with 6+ million records from 400+ content providers
2. Ingenta Connect, with 22+ million records
3. Scirus, with 400+ million records
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We are currently working on expanding search access to Nature Precedings, however in the meantime, I am please to announce that content posted on Nature Precedings is now indexed by Google Scholar.
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Nature Precedings is now covered by BASE .
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BASE search works very well. I can find my posts throughout nature precedings.
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Thomson Scientific’s new academic/science search engine WebPlus covers Nature Precedings.
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Microsoft is shutting down the Windows Live Academic search engine. That’s one less search engine for the Nature Precedings team to get the journal covered under (if indeed it is proactive on search engine coverage).
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Nature Precedings now has an OAI-PMH interface (details are here).
Thanks for the update about Microsoft Live Academic. We hadn’t heard from them in a while and were unsure of the status of their project.
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Great news! Also means that OAIster coverage will begin soon.
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I’m pleased to announce that ScientificCommons (not affiliated with Science Commons) is now indexing Nature Precedings content.
Precedings is also now a registered data provider with the Open Archives Initiative.
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