Follow Google’s green arrow to open content

There is some more good news for repositories that surfaced this weekend (via Peter Suber’s blog and Klaus Graf) about how Google Scholar now highlights results that have open access versions of papers by the addition of a green flag / arrow / triangle.
Google continues its behaviour of showing the publishers version of the paper as [...]

Posted on September 15, 2008 at 7:41 am by Stuart · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Google bring Scholar richness into normal search results

Some good news for open access repository advocates: It seems that the normal Google search engine has now started bringing the richness of Google Scholar results into the main Google search results. This extra information includes:

The (first) author’s name
Links to papers that have cited it
Links to related articles
Links to other versions

For me this is great news. [...]

Posted on August 13, 2008 at 7:28 pm by Stuart · Permalink · One Comment
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