---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:42 AM Subject: Google coverage of Latin American IRs To: Les Carr <lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk> and others Dear Leslie: Here is the paper on Google's coverage of papers deposited in Latin American repositories. If we promote IRs then we must also ensure that search engines like Google, Google Scholar, BASE (Bielefeld), Duckduckgo, yahoo, etc. capture ALL papers deposited in ALL IRs. Arun The dark side of Open Access in Google and Google Scholar: the case of Latin-American repositories Enrique Orduña-Malea <http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/find/cs/1/au:+Orduna_Malea_E/0/1/0/all/0/1> , Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar <http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/find/cs/1/au:+Lopez_Cozar_E/0/1/0/all/0/1> (Submitted on 17 Jun 2014) Since repositories are a key tool in making scholarly knowledge open access, determining their presence and impact on the Web is essential, particularly in Google (search engine par excellence) and Google Scholar (a tool increasingly used by researchers to search for academic information). The few studies conducted so far have been limited to very specific geographic areas (USA), which makes it necessary to find out what is happening in other regions that are not part of mainstream academia, and where repositories play a decisive role in the visibility of scholarly production. The main objective of this study is to ascertain the presence and visibility of Latin American repositories in Google and Google Scholar through the application of page count and visibility indicators. For a sample of 137 repositories, *the results indicate that the indexing ratio is low in Google, and virtually nonexistent in Google Scholar; they also indicate a complete lack of correspondence between the repository records and the data produced by these two search tools*. These results are mainly attributable to limitations arising from the use of description schemas that are incompatible with Google Scholar (repository design) and the reliability of web indicators (search engines). We conclude that *neither Google nor Google Scholar accurately represent the actual size of open access content published by Latin American repositories*; this may indicate a non-indexed, hidden side to open access, which could be limiting the dissemination and consumption of open access scholarly literature. Comments:16 pages, 6 tablesSubjects: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)Cite as: arXiv:1406.4331 <http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/abs/1406.4331> [cs.DL] (or arXiv:1406.4331v1 <http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/abs/1406.4331v1> [cs.DL] for this version) Submission history From: Delgado Lopez-Cozar emilio [view email <http://arxiv.org/auth/show-email/2c6fa488/1406.4331>] *[v1]* Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:45:30 GMT (560kb) Which authors of this paper are endorsers? <http://arxiv.org/auth/show-endorsers/1406.4331> | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax? <http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/help/mathjax/>) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.