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Science Direct-ly into Google


Science Direct-ly into Google
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
O'Reilly Radar
Peter Brantley
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/science_directl.html>


ScienceDirect (SD) is a compendium of scientific, technical, and medical
(STM) literature from Reed Elsevier, one of the world's largest
publishers. SD, most often made available on a subscription or licensing
basis to large institutions like universities, biopharmaceuticals, and
other research or health related companies, claims to contain
approximately "25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full
text and bibliographic information."

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It was therefore notable when its absence from Google Scholar, Google's
search interface for scholarly-related material, was realized. Scholar has
become tremendously popular for focussed searches in the scholarly
literature among not only academics and students, but seekers of health
information and other science-based data. Elsevier has long supported its
own search interface for scholarly literature, Scopus, and it was no
surprise to many that they avoided inclusion.

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Elsevier has now undertaken to have the majority of its SD journals (those
for which it holds or can obtain the copyrights) crawled and indexed by
Google. Both Google and Google Scholar are slowly incorporating an
increasing amount of this content, and these data will be appearing in
search results for Google and Google Scholar.

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This is notable for a wide range of reasons. One of the most prominent is
that Elsevier clearly feels comfortable with having its core intellectual
property crawled and analyzed by Google to augment discovery.



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