… Researchers provide their research compendia on their personal or institutional websites all around the world. This method of providing access to research follows a distributed scheme and brings up some issues about the worldwide visibility of the research compendia.
In such a distributed system, good visibility and retrieval of information are essential for the successful delivery of services. Fortunately, many different systems have been established to improve the information retrieval, notably search engines.
While search engines are vital for the retrieval of information on the Web, they do not index websites equally and may not index new pages for months. This usually leads to a delay in the information retrieval whereas delayed indexing of scientific research is not desirable …
Tags: Reproducible Research, worldwide visibility
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