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@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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