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August 27, 2007
An Interview with the Designer of Google Scholar
Since its inception, Google Scholar has made deep inroads within the academic community within a very short period of time and is often the first search tool used by researchers and students. While many of the traditional databases charge significant fees for their availability to the academic community, Google Scholar offers their services for free and continues to update and improve their services and the content that they make available. New features that Google Scholar has recently announced include the Google Scholar digitization project, a "key author" feature, expansion into non-English content, and the indexing of Elsevier's Science Direct collection.
Barbara Quint, of Information Today uncovers these developments in her interview with Anurag Acharya, the designer behind Google Scholar.
The complete interview can be located here.
--Posted by Robbi De Peri
Posted by colldev at 01:56 PM
May 26, 2006
Elsevier Offers OA Hybrid Journals in Physics
Read about Elsevier's new option at the Open Access News blog.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:17 PM
August 05, 2004
Elsevier on Open Access
Crispin Davis, Chief Executive of Elsevier states the following in a recent article:
"Reed Elsevier faces a potential challenge from a movement to make scientific journals freely available, widely known as the "open access" model. It said there has been "much comment but little market impact".
"There are no real indications at the moment that the market is changing significantly," Davis said. "After five years, 99 percent of our customers are saying they're comfortable with the existing model. If that changes it's up to us to adapt."
Posted by Donna Braquet at 09:49 AM
