[LIS-Forum] OAI Capture by Search Engines

OAI Capture by Search Engines Frank McCown and Others [1] has made a study to determine how much OAI-PMH exposed metadata is being indexed by popular search engines.

From their sample they conclude that Yahoo indexed 65%, followed by Google (44%) and MSN (7%).

1. Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus by Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammad Zubair (submitted to IEEE Internet Computing). <http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?LA-UR-05-9158.pdf> --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in