What is it about?
Full-text of 61.1% articles could be found via Google Scholar and about 80% of them are final published version (not preprint). Google Scholar find these full-text files mostly through education and organisational websites. ResearchGate accounts 10.5% of full-text files that could be accessed through Google Scholar and this makes ResearchGate the top single website providing full-text of papers.
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Why is it important?
Google Scholar is like a black box and little is known about its sources of full-text files. This study shows where those files come from.
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It seems ResearchGate is going to play a big role in making research available and it might replace repositories.
Dr Hamid R Jamali
Charles Sturt University
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This page is a summary of: Open access and sources of full-text articles in Google Scholar in different subject fields, Scientometrics, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1642-2.
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