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Proxy Searching of Non-Searchable & Poorly Searchable Open Access Archives of Digital Scholarly Journals Dr. Péter Jacsó , Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries December 8-12, 2003 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Proxy Searching of Non-Searchable & Poorly Searchable Open Access Archives

of Digital Scholarly Journals

Dr. Péter Jacsó, Professor

Department of Information and Computer Sciences

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries

December 8-12, 2003

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

High quality content in Web-born journals in all disciplines

Multiple year archives – browsing by TOC, volumes and issues

No search engine – no money for development/licensing

Modest web-site search engines, like

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No exact phrase, proximity, positional operators for FT archives

(information industry = industry information)

primitive relevance ranking

Non searchable archives

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“made searchable in late 2003”

Poorly searchable

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283 items are reported with 90% or higher “relevance”

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Call in the best web-wide search engines as proxy searchers

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Searching archive at the sub-domain level - AllTheWeb

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