The site uses an academic approach to ranking. Without a doubt Google Scholar helps improve access to academic research for students, and students are becoming well aware that teachers are tech savvy as well.
According to these publishers, who are the Coke and Pepsi of academic resources, researchers will find “digital collections of nearly every printed work from the late 15th through the 18th centuries, [which] are considered to be among the world's...
For those of you who graduated over a decade ago, you'd be amazed at how academic and public libraries have transformed into electronic wonders, open 24/7. We're also interested in whatever the American Library Association (ALA) provides, like...
George Washington pulled up info on the first president from academic kids.com and as well as info on another famous George: George Washington Carver. They also are big users of reference sites such as Encyclopedia Britannica, library sites and the...
The Library of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is rather different again, focusing on reviews and academic works about the plays. Clusty has released Shakespeare Searched which is designed to provide quick access to the works of the Bard.
Although the name of this service is Google Scholar, it also includes articles from less academic publications that are directed at professionals, such as Dental Assisting, Library Trends, and even The New York Times.
Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination. A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members explains how to use search engine matching technologies to play in the search tail, how to find search tail...
Dr Garcia is both an academic and a search marketer, so while he used high math to explain special filtering techniques for detecting duplicate content, he also offered gold nuggets like reminding search marketers to be aware of the filters in...
While the academic and library research value of the Google Print project is massive and Google should be commended, it's important to remember that Google's plan to digitize this massive amount of material is about selling books (in various...
Google Scholar isn't the only online service that can help you track down and read scholarly or academic books and other content. If you register (free and fast), your own local library will always be linked and listed (it's still easy to check...
Btw, this initiative goes beyond books and MSN also has plans for content from academic publishers, periodicals, aggregators, etc. Every library that provides a copy of the book for scanning will also recieve a file for local use.
A great city that's home to the University of Michigan (Larry Page's alma mater) and an academic library that Google plans to completely digitize, Another new Googleplex? In early June we blogged about Google looking for large amounts of office...
It's easy to think how something like this could be of value to the college academic or even a elementary school teacher. In the SearchDay article about Google Library last December, we pointed out that Brewster Kahle and The Internet Archive have...
The group -- The Text and Academic Authors Association -- finds Google is "backwards" in making digital copies of books without first receiving permission. More on that below, as well as a new group objecting to Google's library digitization plans.
This is great for the have-nots or individuals not affiliated with an academic library. Jacso notes that Google Scholar is, "great for the have-nots or individuals not affiliated with an academic library.
Most libraries (public, academic, even The Library of Congress) offer "virtual reference" services where you can interact with librarians and ask questions via an IM like tool. Sometimes it's much easier to get the answer you need from another...
You can even use RLG to find items in thousands of public and academic libraries. What Levy gets wrong is that books and other objects are also assigned what Library of Congress Subject Headings. Another classification scheme called Library of...
However, the new service allows searchers to specifically search against just the academic material. Yahoo already has long-standing ties to gather material from academic publishers through its Content Acquisition Program.
Review of new academic and business report search engine SMEALSearch. The short answer is that today's crawler-based search engines let you scan every page on every book in the library to find the best and most exact references to what you are...
A Niche Search Engine for eBusiness SearchDay, Jan.http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/03/sd0130-ebiz.html eBizSearch is an experimental search engine that focuses on a very small niche: academic and commercially produced articles and reports...
