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Not just Google Scholar's Digest retweeted
October 2022 marks the 16th anniversary of the free Publish or Perish software. For details of 15 use cases and some of the challenges see: linkedin.com/posts/anne-wil-…
@GScholarDigest @Write4Research @LISResearch @LISResearchAu @WomeninAIB @AIB_World @bam_ac_uk @researchwhisper
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How I spent my last summer?
With tens of thousands of manual queries for this 63-pager: Search where you will find most: Comparing the disciplinary coverage of 56 bibliographic databases doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-0…🧵
#systematicreview #evidencesynthesis #medlibs #metaanalysis #search
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PoP v8 new features (2) #popversion8 offers a 7th data source: PubMed, to facilitate #covid19 searches. For details see: harzing.com/blog/2022/01/pop…
@LISResearch @LISResearchAu @Write4Research @AIB_World @MDXLibrary @TheBibliomagic @aarontay @GScholarDigest @FakeLibStats @MsPhelps
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This is a fantastic post from @aarontay, really good for helping understand all the emerging open discovery tools and sources incl. @CrossrefOrg musingsaboutlibrarianship.bl…
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"in 2019 COCI found 47% of the citations available in Web of Science, whereas now open citation data sources find 87% of the WoS citations." For Scopus the figure was 44% to 81%! Shows how much difference Elsevier joining made. (1)
Coverage of open citation data approaches parity with Web of Science and Scopus #OpenAccessWeek @CrossrefOrg @opencitations opencitations.wordpress.com/…
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What do people want most from Google Scholar? API access? Better filters? Other?
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Citation overlap in Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and COCI albertomartin.shinyapps.io/c… by @albertomartin @GScholarDigest
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Last week @OurResearch_org, supported by @ArcadiaFund, announced launch of @OpenAlex_org as replacement for @MSFTAcademic; importantly, OpenAlex won't provide complete data for publishers that don't support #I4OA and don't submit abstracts to @CrossrefOrg blog.ourresearch.org/openale…
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Salient point & practical advice from @AWHarzing “Just like you wouldn’t list non-existent degrees or job experiences on your LinkedIn profile, it is an ethical obligation to ensure that your Google Scholar Profiles only lists publications and citations that are yours.”
IB Ethics: How to Keep Your Google Scholar Profile Clean aib.world/ethics-blog/ib-eth…
@AIB_RMSIG @AIB_World @LISResearch @LISResearchAu @Write4Research @theacademicwmag #cygna_london @GScholarDigest @TheBibliomagic
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📢 #GoogleScholar #citations #wrong!? We're currently exploring this. You can help 👇
1) Check your citations in #GS. If you find errors (ie author position/order/spelling; mostly occur in "Harvard" & "Vancouver" style), write us or into the comments
2) Re-twt this call
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Not just Google Scholar's Digest retweeted
#Researchers routinely use databases such as #GoogleScholar, #WebofScience, and #Scopus to search scholarly information and consult bibliometric indicators such as #citation counts. Read more about it: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci…
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Given the theme of this year’s #LISBIB21 where new tools and technologies relying on Microsoft Academic were a regular feature, this comes as something of a shock.
Not just Google Scholar's Digest retweeted
Big news- "Microsoft Academic Website: No longer accessible after Dec. 31, 2020", "Microsoft Academic Graph: No longer providing updated data or access to old releases after Dec. 31, 2021; however, existing copies can still be used under license." microsoft.com/en-us/research… (1/)
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I thought it wasn't possible to search scholars with more than one area of interest in Google Scholar, but it is actually possible!!! Feel free to try several examples in the thread. @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter @GScholarDigest
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ResearchGate and @wileyinresearch deepen partnership with content pilot. Starting today, articles from 17 Wiley gold OA journals are available on #ResearchGate, with more to come.
Press release: bit.ly/3wEYgAD
#Wiley #partnership #pressrelease #openaccess
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The Google Scholar Public Access initiative: helpful or a distraction? The service raises awareness on free access but may also distract from providing open access via repositories. Our take on the proposal in a library oriented presentation: tinyurl.com/GSpublicaccess w/@MsPhelps
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Did you know that like Google Scholar EPMC offers author profiles that include proportion of #openaccess publications, citations and #preprints. Unlike Google Scholar though, it is based on entirely #OpenData and our integration with @ORCID_Org. See europepmc.org/authors/0000-0…
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Surprising new feature on Google Scholar author profiles: tracking adherence to open/public access mandates at the author level scholar.googleblog.com/2021/… watch this space as we unbundle this new development
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Did you know you can now search scholarly materials preserved in the @InternetArchive? Meet Internet Archive Scholar, a search engine for 25M research articles from 18th C journals to #OpenAccess conf. proceedings to #Preprint publications.
blog.archive.org/2021/03/09/…
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Revised version of our paper presenting a comparison of bibliographic data sources (@Scopus, @webofscience, @DSDimensions, @CrossrefOrg and @MSFTAcademic) is available online arxiv.org/abs/2005.10732; thanks to @albertomartin for helpful feedback! @martijnsvisser @neesjanvaneck
