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The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.

For many researchers, Google Scholar is the first entry point for finding scientific articles. Including collections of institutional repositories in Google Scholar search results provides instant worldwide visibility for these publications. This benefits authors, the scientific community as well as the institutions themselves.

In this webinar for the Ugandan DSpace user group, Google Scholar Monica Westin will show how Google Scholar indexing works and what is required to ensure the inclusion of repositories. The webinar will cover the most common DSpace repository indexing issues, how they can be identified and resolved, and how to check the coverage of your repository in Google Scholar. 
At the end there will be a question and answer session for the participants.

The webinar will be in English.


When: July 19, 2019 - 3:00pm EAT


Registration: https://duraspace.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RyRh5rFHS3erWPnEJwUQiQ


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Are cover pages the same as thumbnails? Do thumbnails affect indexing?


How long is an outage enough to affect the indexing


Does google scholar use the handle url (handle.net/handle) or does it use the repository url like ir.umu.ac.ug


Is DSpace 7 stable now

DSpace 7 hasn't been released yet

You can check DSpace 7 status here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+7.0+Status

you will find slides and information of what is already in place (the preview release is out) and the roadmap

Why does it take some time for the site to be be indexed when it goes down. I thought indexing system crawls through the site completely. Does it do it in bits...


Are there any measures that could be taken to improve the indexing speed and accuracy of your repository. There is something about setting up sitemaps and registering with google webmaster tools. I thought you would say something about that.


How would google scholar list an item that is duplicated in two repositories. Like an item harvested from another repository. Which listing would show up first?


















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