This commentary deflates the enthusiasm about Google's plan to search institutional repositories, arguing in essence that there is nothing there to search for. Could be. But part of this, responds one commentator, is that "one of the reasons there are so few archives and so few papers in them is that it was rather arbitrary for Google and OCLC to cover only DSpace archives!" And he notes, "the real OAI google is OAIster, and it contains over 3 million pearls from nearly 300 institutions." Still, it's an interesting commentary: why would Google and OCLC choose DSpace? Why not the wider OAI world?
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