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20 years of Google Scholar

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412 points thepuppet33r | 5 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source
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teruakohatu ◴[18 Nov 24 20:59 UTC] No.42176959[source]▶
The best thing, by a long way, that Google Scholar has achieved is denying Elsevier & co a monopoly on academic search.

In most universities here in New Zealand, articles have to be published in a journal indexed by Elsevier's Scopus. Not in a Scopus-indexed journal, it does not count anymore than a reddit comment. This gives Elsevier tremendous power. But in CS/ML/AI most academics and students turn to Google Scholar first when doing searches.

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freefaler ◴[18 Nov 24 21:07 UTC] No.42177049[source]▶
or turn to sci-hub and annas-arhive :)
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1. whimsicalism ◴[18 Nov 24 22:03 UTC] No.42177609[source]▶
scihub is dying unfortunately :( the good news is it is happening just as all the fields i'm interested in except for some experimental physics & biology have moved to OA
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2. Loughla ◴[19 Nov 24 00:55 UTC] No.42179063[source]▶
oa resources have really kicked it into high gear post covid. They used to be kind of a joke, but they're actually competitive now. It's nice to see.
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3. Onawa ◴[19 Nov 24 03:00 UTC] No.42179709[source]▶
I believe NIH's directive that all intramural and extramural research must be published OA has helped move things in that direction quite a lot.
4. kedarkhand ◴[19 Nov 24 10:27 UTC] No.42181919[source]▶
Sorry but what is OA?
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5. bloak ◴[19 Nov 24 10:35 UTC] No.42181964[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access (I assume)