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> Google's standard search engine, good as it is for search, is lousy for searching the academic literature. Google Scholar is better, but it only manages it be
by robryk 12y ago
> Google's standard search engine, good as it is for search, is lousy for searching the academic literature. Google Scholar is better, but it only manages it because it only indexes the academic journals.
Google scholar seems to index arxiv.org (a free for readers and authors, no review paper archive). Would you consider publishing those things you've published as blog posts there too?
- dalke 12y agoI have considered it. However, I work in cheminformatics, which doesn't really fall under "Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics". I don't see an appropriate place for my work. For example, under Quantitative Biology you'll notice a lack of pharmaceutical chemistry, toxicology, or pesticides, which are closely related areas to the types of work I do. Searching out of curiosity, I found http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1724 http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1724 as an example of something in my field. It's under the catch-all "Computer Science > Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science", so that's a possibility. There is some toxicology under metabolomics, but that focused on expression data, not structure-based prediction. There's another tox paper filed under "Mathematics > Statistics Theory", again based on gene expressions. There's no history of people using arxiv.org in my field. If people don't like to cite blog publications, I don't know if they would like to cite preprints. Something to find out the hard, slow way, I guess.