CrossRef Search Pilot and Google Scholar

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

>From the CrossRef Newsletter:
http://www.crossref.org/01company/10newsletter.html
Above links is for the February issue of the CrossRef Newsletter

CrossRef Search Pilot  

The arrival of Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/) lead to a
review of the CrossRef Search Pilot and discussion at the CrossRef board.
The board approved continuing with the CrossRef Search Pilot in addition
to engaging with Google to express publishers' concerns about certain
aspects of the Google Scholar Beta and establish a more formal business
relationship between Google and CrossRef.

On January 27th, representatives from the CrossRef board and staff - Tony
Durniak (IEEE), Gordon Tibbitts (Blackwell), Craig Van Dyck (Wiley), Ed
Pentz and Chuck Koscher (CrossRef) - had a very productive meeting at
Google regarding Google Scholar, CrossRef Search and establishing a more
formal business relationship between CrossRef and Google. Google agreed
with the principle that if there are multiple versions of an article shown
in the Google Scholar search results, the first link will be to the
publisher's authoritative copy. Google would like to use the DOI as the
primary means to link to an article so CrossRef and Google will be working
on this as well as a template for common terms and conditions for use of
publishers full text content.

The CrossRef Search Committee feels that CrossRef Search still provides a
valuable service as a search focused on authoritative, peer-reviewed
literature from a known set of sources. Google Scholar is a very broad
search of all the web and includes any material that "looks scholarly" and
the material comes from an unknown set of sources. Therefore, the schedule
is for results from CrossRef Search to be delivered from Google Scholar
starting in April (the results now come from the regular Google index).

The CrossRef Search Committee is also continuing discussions with Google
on a number of technical issues, such as making sure coverage of CrossRef
member content is complete and crawling of content is as efficient as
possible.

There are now 35 publisher participating in the Pilot. For 2005 there is a
fee of 5% of the annual membership fee for participation in the Pilot.
This is to cover CrossRef's administrative costs. The latest list of
participants is at http://www.crossref.org/crossrefsearch.html.

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825