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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Analysis of Google Scholar and Google Books

    Two papers were published recently exploring the quality of Google Scholar and Google Books.



    Google Scholar

    Philipp Mayr and Anne-Kathrin Walter, both of GESIS / Social Science Information Center in Bonn, Germany, uploaded an article to arXiv called "An exploratory study of Google Scholar." ((Judging from the citation listed on Philipp …

     Posted on  August 15, 2007
     and last updated August 15, 2007
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Article-Level OAI-PMH Harvest Available from DOAJ

    Earlier this year the DOAJ began offering a new schema for registered articles that significantly improves the value of OAI-PMH harvested article content. Prior to this addition the only scheme available was Dublin Core, which as a metadata schema for describing article content is woefully inadequate. (Dublin Core, of course …

     Posted on  July 11, 2007
     and last updated July 11, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time