Seaarch engines : Google partners with universities to mine invisible academic literature. Jeffrey R. Young, Google Teams Up with 17 Colleges to Test Searches of Scholarly Materials, Chronicle of Higher Education Daily Update, April 9, 2004. MIT and 16 other institutions are collaborating with Google, who, pending the success of the test project, will activate a feature that enables searching of online repositories such as DSpace. MacKenzie Smith of MIT is quoted. "A lot of times the richest scholarly literature is buried" in search-engine results, said Ms. Smith. "As more and more content is on the Web, it's harder and harder to find the high-quality stuff that you need." The universities extensive use of metadata and OCLC's involvement in developing a search configuration for the test promise a highly useful search tool across multiple collections. [Open Access News]  11:42:04 AM   [Feedback ]  

Open Access : New Open Access Now. The April 12 issue of Open Access Now is now online. This issue features a report on efforts to provide the public with OA information about ongoing clinical trials, a news story on the encouraging results of the OA experiment at Oxford University Press, a brief report on the oral evidence at the UK inquiry, BMC's comprehensive list of links to written submissions to the UK inquiry, and a profile of Current Controlled Trials. [Open Access News]  9:04:43 AM   [Feedback ]