Dear Theodoropoulos, I strongly agree with you and also looking for answers to your questions. We are planning to link/share our specific collection (own publications) with Google Scholar beside linking all collection. Please suggest for solution. We are using Invenio v1.0.0-rc0. Thanks. With best regards, Anil
-----Original Message----- From: Theodoros Theodoropoulos [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Invenio and Google Scholar Hello everyone, I would like to grasp the current Invenio / Google Scholar status of interaction (as far as this is possible with a google indexing service). As I understand, recent Invenio versions (>1.0) use meta tags that are compatible with google scholar, which is a strong prerequisite for inclusion in scholar. However, I suppose that this alone does not guarantee that the site (that is properly searched by google) will have all articles in scholar too... It is stated in the relevant google doc that all documents must be reachable by the bot ("We recommend that the URL of every article is reachable from the homepage by following at most ten simple HTML links"). Does this mean that restricted collections (and/or fulltext documents) will decrease the possibility of the site being included in scholar? Do you think that exporting collections via OAI increases that chances that articles from a specific collection will be found in scholar? Does one have to complete this file http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/institutional_links.xml (as stated in http://invenio-software.org/ticket/902) for each Invenio collection, or is this used only for collections of articles found in journals? (By the way, is there any updates regarding this enhancement request ticket?) Is there something else that one could do in their Invenio repositories in order to 'boost' the possibility of inclusion in google scholar? (being referenced by many sites would do the trick, but one cannot rely only on that) Lastly, is there a way to 'suggest' google scholar to link to the 'detailed record' page instead of just the doc/pdf so that all localy produced (rich) metadata are shown to the end user? I understand that I'm probably asking for too much, but I would like to see Invenio in the list of google scholar supported repositories (right now there is only DSpace, ePrints and DigitalCommons), as it offers so much more than it's competitors! This also means that us Invenio users should do whatever we can to 'promote' our chosen software and create a strong presence for it in google scholar. Thanks for your time, Best regards, Theodoros Theodoropoulos
