Sorry, like you I have no idea how to find "unfindable" papers written in
foreign languages. Yet another factor may be a growing reluctance among
students and/or their professors to release papers to a wider audience. I
don't think many research students are convinced that the publication of
their paper could be beneficial for their employment prospects in the
short- or long term, especially when we as a community tend to slam any and
all research in the typical pedantic wiki way.
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Jane Darnell, 09/11/2014 12:05:
Those conducting such research are less likely to
publish English
summaries of their work,
Interesting suggestion, but how does this matter/how would this bias
operate? Most WikiPapers contributors aren't English native speakers. What
databases, archives or other resources are English-specific?
In my last import there were 132 non-English publications vs. 4424 English
publications.
making them less "findable" and thus less
likely to be linked from the pages you specify.
How to find them, then? Until we find them, we won't know they're missing.
:-) If I look at some "neutral" resource like
http://www.dart-europe.eu/
basic-results.php?kw[]=wiki&f=n I see we're probably missing some, but
not many and certainly not 2 thirds. We have a number of todos
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/WikiPapers:TODO but perhaps we need
to look into some institutional meta-repository.
Nemo
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