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Apr 13th 2004, 9:01 am
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http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=6385
Google has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 other universities around the world in an effort to provide a way to search the institutions' collections of scholarly papers. A pilot test of the project has begun and the search feature may appear on Google in a few months as an option on Google's advanced-search page.
The project is intended to allow users to direct their searches to on-campus repositories of scholarly materials that contain copies of academic papers, technical reports, drafts of articles, and other work by a university's professors. Scholars can choose whether their works will be available to all Internet users or only to others on their own campuses. The participating universities have tagged all the materials with metadata tags.
Participating universities also plan to work with other search engine providers and some have expressed an interest in creating their own search technology. In the pilot test, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc., a nonprofit library organization, has set up a search process that will serve as an interface between Google and the universities.
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=6385
Google has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 other universities around the world in an effort to provide a way to search the institutions' collections of scholarly papers. A pilot test of the project has begun and the search feature may appear on Google in a few months as an option on Google's advanced-search page.
The project is intended to allow users to direct their searches to on-campus repositories of scholarly materials that contain copies of academic papers, technical reports, drafts of articles, and other work by a university's professors. Scholars can choose whether their works will be available to all Internet users or only to others on their own campuses. The participating universities have tagged all the materials with metadata tags.
Participating universities also plan to work with other search engine providers and some have expressed an interest in creating their own search technology. In the pilot test, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc., a nonprofit library organization, has set up a search process that will serve as an interface between Google and the universities.