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Worldwide Visibility for Korean Research
Monday, March 19, 2012
We have worked with many colleagues outside Google in our effort to make it possible for all researchers to find what their peers have discovered. We are thrilled to share this guest post from one of our colleagues, Prof Sun Huh from the Hallym University, Korea.
Over the past twenty or so years, I have played several roles within the Korean scholarly communication arena, from professor and researcher to author and journal editor. In all of these roles, I have made it a priority to ensure that the medical and scientific research done by our faculty, staff and students can be found and read by researchers around the world.
In the summer of 2006, I was chairing the Committee of Information Management for the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE), when I received an email from Anurag Acharya suggesting that we work together to include KAMJE's
KoreaMed
platform within the Scholar index. When I introduced the idea to the Association's member-editors, they were delighted by the prospect of gaining more visibility for their journals. After a series of messages and close collaboration with the Scholar engineers, the articles hosted on KoreaMed were soon included in Google and Google Scholar. The relationship was so successful that we opened KoreaMed's full-text platform,
Synapse
, for indexing in Nov 2007.
With the successful cooperation of KAMJE and Google, Korean medical scholarship now reaches researchers worldwide. I have recently taken on a new role, a volunteer-consultant for the newly formed Korean Council of Science Editors (KCSE), which will try to do for all Korean scientific research what KAMJE has done for medical research. I look forward to working with the Council and our colleagues at Google to extend the reach of Korean scientific scholarship.
Posted by: Sun Huh, Professor of Parasitology, Hallym University
Finding significant citations for legal opinions
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Allowing users to find citing documents for an article is a key feature of Google Scholar. Ever since we added legal opinions, legal researchers have asked us to make it easy to find significant citing decisions for a case - that is, decisions that discuss a case at some length, possibly supporting it, overturning it or differentiating it from others.
Today, we are changing how we present citations to legal opinions. Now, instead of sorting the citing documents by their prominence, we sort them by the extent of discussion of the cited case. Opinions that discuss the cited case in detail are presented before ones that mention the case briefly. We indicate the extent of discussion visually and indicate opinions that discuss the cited case at length, that discuss it moderately and those that discuss it briefly. Opinions that don't discuss the cited case are left unmarked. For example, see
opinions citing Dique v. New Jersey State Police, 603 F. 3d 181
.
We would like to thank Itai Gurari for his contributions in making this feature possible.
Here is hoping this update will help legal researchers quickly find the significant citations they are looking for.
Posted by Alex Verstak, Senior Staff Engineer
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