WSPC journal contents went live at Google Scholar in the first week of April 2006.
World Scientific Publishing is one of the first STM publishers to sign a license agreement with Google to index all its Journals contents ¡ª from Day One. Google Scholar (GS) (http://scholar.google.com/) is a freely-accessible web search engine that indexes the full-text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. It enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It has been used to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Almost all our journal contents (from Day One) have been indexed at Google Scholar. A click at the search result of our journal articles will lead a subscriber to the abstract page hosted at WorldSciNet (http://www.worldscinet.com/), from which the full text can be accessed. An alternative, pay-per-view option, is also available at WorldSciNet.
Having our contents indexed in Google Scholar is one of the ways to boost our worldwide visibility and accessibility of our contents, as Google is now the search engine of choice for both students and researchers. This is not the first cooperation with Google though. Back in 2004, we have signed up with "Google Book Search" to have our book contents indexed. To date, almost 3500 of World Scientific's books are searchable at Google Book Search.
With technological advances and diminishing shelf space in recent years, academic libraries worldwide are now placing more emphasis on the acquisition of electronic contents. High on their lists are how electronic contents can best serve their users' needs, and at the same time aid libraries in saving on manpower and capital expenditure costs.
