Hi Peter, Thanks for your thoughts on this. I do definitely see that many times, things still "work" in Google Scholar (and that's good to see).
However, I will mention that I've immediately found examples from kb.OSU.edu where things didn't "work" as expected, and the "abstract" reported by Google Scholar is actually text from the PDF coverpage. For example: "Mycorrhizae and establishment of trees on strip-mined land" https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=3612920260665530599&hl=en&as_sdt=0,36 This becomes even more visible if you search for text that appears in the cover page itself. For example "Downloaded from the Knowledge Bank" appears in your PDF cover page: Finds ~243,000 results with this text in the "abstract" field: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Downloaded+from+the+Knowledge+Bank&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C36 It does look like Google Scholar is smart enough to generally grab the Title, Author and even date from the cover page itself (so assuming they are spelled correctly in the DSpace metadata, that is great!). But, the abstract seems to be problematic, so some of your articles may not have as much "visibility" in that they may be only searchable by Title, Author and Date. This is just something to consider if Google Scholar visibility is of high importance to your researchers/users. There definitely are some issues here, even with a well-formatted Cover Page. - Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
