[LINK] Google CrossRef Search Pilot

Tom Worthington Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au
Tue Nov 28 17:16:39 AEDT 2006


The CrossRef Search Pilot has journals from 45 publishers of 
scholarly research with a Google search interface. The idea is that 
the search is restricted to quality publications, not all the dross 
on the web. About the only two IT specialist publishers in the list 
seem to be Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE.

As an example, a search for my name would normally produce about 
68,000 hits from Google 
<http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%22tom+worthington%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=> 
(only about 20,000 of these are actually about me). With Google 
Scholar this drops to 104 hits 
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22tom+worthington%22&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search>. 
With the CrossRef Search it is down to 7 
<http://www.google.com/search?restrict=crossref&hl=en&lr=&q=%22tom+worthington%22&btnG=Search>. 
Given that I have never written a scholarly research paper, that 
still seems a little high, but it turns out I got mentioned in:

* IEEE Std 1484.12.1-2002, IEEE Standard for Learning Object Metadata 
<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/8032/22180/01032843.pdf?arnumber=1032843> 
(on the balloting group).
* IEEE standard for software vertication and validation plans
<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/2487/1028/00026585.pdf?arnumber=26585> 
(on the balloting group).
* Programming pearls: updates, Communications of the ACM archive, 
July 1984 <http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=358105.381166> 
(corrected a program error)
* Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems, ACM SIGSOFT 
Software Engineering Notes archive, April 1995 
<http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=224155.565629> (reported 
power station software glitch).

The other two entries were another Tom Worthington.

There is more on the pilot at <http://www.crossref.org/crossrefsearch.html>.



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