#ProQuest + #GoogleScholar = scam? Exhibit #123:
- Researcher publishes article in journal, using #CC BY.
- ProQuest republishes article, with author, title, date, DOI, licence. Also, with terrible layout, but without images.
- Their DOI doesn't link anywhere. You need to type "https:/doi.org/", add the DOI, paste URL, to find the actual publication. Grey zone of CC BY requirements?
- GS indexes the publication and provides the ProQuest link instead of the proper URL.
Aaargh.
Google Scholar search result for the same article, with the data source mentioned as ProQuest, and with the link (invisible) on the title going to the ProQuest page.
Screeshot of the ProQuest page with one example of this practice, here with a Programming Historian lessen by Diana Santos.