Finding open access articles using Google, Google Scholar, OAIster and OpenDOAR
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Institutional Repository Finding open access articles using Google , Google Scholar , OAIster and OpenDOAR
Purpose – The paper seeks to demonstrate the relative effectiveness of a range of search tools in finding open access (OA) versions of peer reviewed academic articles on the WWW. Design/methodology/approach – Some background is given to why and how academics may make their articles OA and how they may be found by others searching for them. Google, Google Scholar, OAIster and OpenDOAR were used ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Online Information Review
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1468-4527
DOI: 10.1108/14684520810923881