Dan Box, Business Tools: Google Scholar, Times Online (Business Section), December 5, 2004. Excerpt: '[T]he team at Google has a touchingly innocent approach to convincing authors to grant access to their work for publication, free, on the internet. "Your work likely has great value to a number of people who may not know it exists," they write. "By including your articles in Google Scholar, others will be more likely to find them, learn from them, cite them and build on the foundation you have laid."'
(PS: Box's attempt at business-savvy condescension comes off as cluelessness about academic culture. Researchers write journal articles for impact. (Did Box think journals paid for them?) It doesn't matter whether researchers put the accent on advancing knowledge or advancing their own careers. Increasing their impact is serious business and the very best reason for researchers to provide OA to their work and to make sure it's indexed in visibility and retrieval tools like Google Scholar.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/05/2004 10:30:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
