The resulting article can come alive with real stories and examples – and probably be a lot more engaging than perhaps a more scholarly approach. How about getting great material from outside your usual circles and often ending up with more...
When you're looking for magazine or journal articles, search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet—particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas.
This database offers access to "scholarly literature" found on the open web in several disciplines including information technology, computer science, telecom, and more.MORE” It pulls back material categorized over at Digg, Yahoo My Web, del.iou.us...
This database offers access to "scholarly literature" found on the open web in several disciplines including information technology, computer science, telecom, and more.MORE” It pulls back material categorized over at Digg, Yahoo My Web, del.iou.us...
Google Scholar isn't the only online service that can help you track down and read scholarly or academic books and other content. Taking advantage of subject headings/descriptors can often allow you to find just the right material very quickly.
Bailey Jr.compiler of the wonderful Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) has just published the first edition of: The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography. Postscript: Another good bibliography of Google Print related material is...
However, at this time, most of the Yahoo material (with the exceptions of ACM and IEEE) appears to be current events, news, and business oriented rather than scholarly or peer-reviewed. Likewise, I wouldn't at all be surprised to see more peer...
Scholarly" business material from the open web Nor does it exploit the wealth offered by the hundred of millions of well-structured metadata-rich scholarly articles that publishers happily made available to its crawlers.
What I dislike is the suggestion that somehow copyright is different for scholarly works, libraries or just print material. Association of American University Presses' Position On Google Search Engine Watch Forums
The Chronicle of Higher Education and Business Week have articles about a recent letter sent by The Association of American University Presses (about 125 scholarly publishers) saying that the Google Library program, "appears to be built on a...
Finally, the newsletter describes Google Scholar as, ".a very broad search of all the web and includes any material that 'looks scholarly. Government contract bid announcements and other types of material "look scholarly" using even the broadest...
Second, they need to offer the Google definition what is and isn't "scholarly" material. While many definitions exist, Google should define and disclose what they consider scholarly and how about they select it for the index.
More in this blog post about how deep (or not) Google Scholar indexes documents, the issue of what's scholarly material and a side-by-side comparision tool to pit Google Scholar against source databases.
They love the program, despite it containing some material they consider not quite scholarly. Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web.
There is plenty of good, non-scholarly material locked behind password systems. Allowing the cloaking of NPR's content, and now some scholarly content, helps the searcher. Users may want to find this formerly invisible material.
Google is teaming up with MIT and 16 other universities to create a way to search through their collections of scholarly papers. Google Teams Up With 17 Colleges to Test Searches of Scholarly Materials The Chronicle Of Higher Education, April 9...
Another new spam resource is a scholarly paper that's just appeared out of Stanford, Web Spam Taxonomy. So, do a search there for Google, and you can review the material Google's been asked to remove.
