Indexing google scholar

[Nishantha Renushan]

Hi,

We have published many proceeding articles fulltext and abstracts in our repository. But I have noticed that some of them indexed properly both abstract and full text in google scholar and some weren't.Also some of them are properly indexed both abstract and fulltext in scholar.

In my repository(Dspace), there are separate collections created for abstract and full text. Most of the time there is the same title in both abstract and full text. but some have the same title with bit variations. I need to clarify few things,

1. will it be indexed articles and abstracts that have similar titles and authors in scholar?

2. Articles and abstract have small variation with similar authors will be indexed?

3.If we edit the metadata of a published item later, will it affect proper indexing ?

4. How long will it take to index a published item?

Fulltext link (indexed)

http://192.248.104.6/handle/345/8503

Abstract link (not indexed)

http://192.248.104.6/handle/345/7947

Thank You.

Shan

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Shan,

These questions likely need to be asked more directly to Google Scholar.  DSpace has no way to tell Google Scholar to index your site, and we cannot control the speed at which your site is indexed in Google Scholar.  Only Google Scholar can control that.

That said, we do have guidelines that make it *more likely* you will be indexed by Google Scholar.  See our Search Engine Optimization documentation at https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Search+Engine+Optimization   It's important to follow all the recommendations in this documentation, or else Google Scholar may not be able to "find" your site or all of the content on your site.

Google Scholar also has their own guidelines for how to get your content included in their site.  DSpace generally follows these guidelines, but they also do have a troubleshooting guide on their site at https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#troubleshooting

Tim