Google Scholar - in beta since 2004 - epitomizes the problems of the internet. Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how...
Regardless of age, personal recommendations were always cited as an important source -- beating out Google Scholar every time. Recently the British Library asked people about the specific ways they searched for reliable articles.
We see this playing out in myriad initiatives underway, ranging from Google's Scholar and Books efforts to Microsoft's think-tank gatherings. They preferred searching on Google or Yahoo versus their college library systems, based on the attributes...
Google Co-op, Google Sitemaps, Google Book Search and Google Scholar all remain independent ways to submit content of various types independently of Google Base, as the links for those services explain.
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.
Google Scholar Goes International - Google Scholar (GS) has begun an international push today with the addition of content in two languages as well as new interfaces for four countries.MORE” Alerted by a post by Nathan Weinberg on Inside Google we...
First, Dean Giustini, a medical librarian at University of British Columbia in Vancouver (one of the most beautiful places I've ever been) and editor of the UBC Google Scholar Blog has a good summary of recent articles about how Google Scholar is...
CiteSeer Offers New Feature; Mirrors of Database Also Added - Years before Google Scholar was launched, Professor Lee Giles, from Penn State University was online with a specialty database named CiteSeer (some also might also know it as...
Gary Price offers a rundown of this alternative to Google Scholar in today's SearchDay article, Searching for Library Books with RedLightGreen. Many libraries throughout the world offer online access to their catalogs.
Google Scholar isn't the only online service that can help you track down and read scholarly or academic books and other content. In fact, RLG just added direct links to THOUSANDS MORE local library catalogs around world.
Yes, in this case it looks like some competition for Google Scholar and the Yahoo Subscriptions program. One thing I hope MSN does (that Google is already doing and doing well) is working with libraries (of all types), who are already paying (via...
Google Scholar database. AccessMyLibrary.com is a new site from Thomson Gale that has made content the publisher provides to library now accessible through the web. Searchers can go to the site directly, and if they have a US library card, access...
In-Depth Review of Google Scholar & Why You Should Consider HireWire Press I've been reading and learning from Peter's work since my very first days of library school. Pete Jacso, a library science professor at the University of Hawaii.
Jacso notes that Google Scholar is, "great for the have-nots or individuals not affiliated with an academic library. I thought some of you might find his latest in-depth review of Google Scholar worth a look.
Earlier this month, we mentioned how any library can now set up direct links to the full-text articles found in Google Scholar. If a library has a subscription, they can enable Google Scholar so that their patrons can automatically view the...
Here's the law firm of Schiffrin Google Scholar Lets Any Library Add Links May 10, 2005 - Google Local UK has gained a new mobile site and the Google Scholar program now allows any library to establish direct links to content.
Google Scholar Expands Library Link Program. Library Stuff May 10 2005 2:23PM GMT In the words of Google's Vice President of Engineering Wayne Rosing, "The day will come when Google won't be a search engine anymore, because everything will be...
Google Local UK has gained a new mobile site and the Google Scholar program now allows any library to establish direct links to content. All Libraries explains how the Google Scholar program has expanded to allow any library to set-up direct links...
Google Scholar, Scirus and the Scholarly Revolution. NYC Library Putting Images Online. Is it possible that Google make it so difficult to manipulate their results, that the webmaster community simply up and shift to focus on Yahoo and MSN?
Google Adds 'Small Pilot Project' to Google Scholar. Google 'library' sparks French warcry. Google insiders make millions on sales. Is It Too Easy To Find People On Google? Enter pay-per-call advertising—a tasty new type of online advertising that...
