I agree that a lot of people (even among scholars and librarians) should be educated on how Google Scholar works and that it works specially well for finding OA articles ! Recently, I was contacted by telephone concerning repositories; one of the questions of the inquiry was about how I search for information : Among the multiple-choice options offered for my opinion, Google or Google Scholar was not even mentioned as one of the possibilities! Hélène Bosc
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 12:48 PM Subject: Luddite Conspiracy: Keeping One's Eye on the PostGutenberg Ball... Try http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21818/ OA since 20 Dec 2010 10:51 (as a google search would immediately have told anyone looking....) Stevan Harnad PS It's not just non-self-archiving authors (and their non-mandating institutions and funders) who've lost sight of the PostGutenberg ball's trajectory: it's also would-be users who prefer to search at the publisher's (or aggregator's) website (or central repositories like PubMed Central) instead of webwide...
