IEEE Xplore and Google

A note that we just received from IEEE Xplore…

“Recently we at IEEE discovered something about our IEEE Xplore usage patterns that we want to pass on to you.

We learned that the majority of IEEE Xplore article metadata records had been eliminated from Google search results.  This means that anyone attempting to search for IEEE articles by using Google or Google Scholar would be less likely to find IEEE content.  Because half of all IEEE Xplore traffic comes through Google searches, particularly among our corporate customers, this could result in a significant drop in your IEEE Xplore usage.

In investigating the current issue, we learned that Google had changed its indexing policy regarding IEEE Xplore. In April 2010, Google decided to discard their previous IEEE Xplore metadata index and completely rebuild an index of over 2.5 million IEEE Xplore metadata records.

Unfortunately, this action may have impacted the ability of users to find IEEE Xplore articles in Google and may have affected your IEEE Xplore usage over the past few months.

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We hope that the entirety of IEEE Xplore metadata will soon be discoverable again via Google.  In the meantime, a reminder that the best way to search IEEE information is to go directly to the IEEE Xplore digital library” which is available through the Library catalogue.  You will need your barcode and PIN to log in.

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