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Google Scholar’s chief engineer, Anurag Acharya, contributed a presentation “Searching Scholarly Literature: A Google Scholar Perspective” at the 9th World Congress on Health Information and Libraries, September 23, 2005. Some key points: The index has grown significantly in the last six months, although the company does not disclose the actual index size Coverage by category is focused on medicine and sciences — medicine 22%; engineering 14%; biology and sociology, 13% each; physics 12% GS indexes full text of all publishers except for Elsevier and ACS (probably because Elsevier’s competitor product, Scirus, is the publisher’s preferred source of Elsevier’s full-text content)…

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