Peter Jacsó, Proxy Searching of Non-Searchable and Poorly Searchable Open Access Archives of Digital Scholarly Journals, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2911, 552-555 (2003). Jacsó examines search capabilities for open access journal websites and finds them wanting, particularly in comparison with established publishers such as Elsevier. He proposes a work-around using search engines such as Google, AlltheWeb and Wisenut and claims that these work fairly precisely to mine these archives. Jacsó does not mention such utilities as Citeseer, myOAI or OAIster which search both preprint servers and journals such as those on the BioMed Central platform; the article may also have been written prior to BMC's release of its journal content for data mining via ftp-able XML files.
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Garrett at 2/26/2004 05:07:00 PM.
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.
