Do we need a new Google CSE for academic repositories? The old ones are looking rather long in the tooth, and their link-rot must be getting pretty bad by now.<\/p>\n
Open DOAR<\/a> search, according to the date on the foot of the search page, has not updated since Nov 2006<\/a>. Similarly, ROAR<\/a>‘s own Google Custom Search Engine has not been updated since Nov 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n I think it’s time for a new and up-to-date one. It shouldn’t be difficult to extract the URLs from a downloaded set of OpenDOAR country pages<\/a>, which are still actively maintained. It’s even easier to download the .csv<\/a> of all the URLs from ROAR and to extract them with Excel. As with OpenDOAR, it seems that the ROAR repository list is up-to-date, even if the CSE isn’t. One would then combine the lists and de-duplicate, clean the list, and then upload the cleaned list to a sparkly new Google Custom Search Engine. If I had the space to add another 2,000 URLs to my Google CSEs, I’d do it myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do we need a new Google CSE for academic repositories? The old ones are looking rather long in the tooth, …<\/p>\n