On Google Scholar

10.25.2005

The Infinite Library

From the University of Toronto Magazine:
Within just a few months, Google Scholar has established itself as a rival to powerful multinational companies such as Thomson and Elsevier that offer huge (and, for libraries, hugely expensive) databases of scholarly material. Some librarians say that Google underperforms its rivals in the currency and quantity of its search results, while others declare that its simplicity is a huge advantage.

posted by tj sondermann at 11:36 AM

18 Comments:

  • I don't understand how you can say Google Scholar is competing with Elsevier and Thomson and other database vendors. Google Scholar points t ocontent, it does not hose that content. Many things it points to are in databaes run by companies like Gale and other vendors. What do you base your analysis on?

    By Blogger Bill Drew, at 5:18 PM  

  • The blogger only quoted this from another writer's article. Perhaps direct this question toward him, not the blogger.

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  • Google Scholar is great for preliminary research as I can find vast amounts of relevant information in very little time. I can also detect the quality of an article based on the number of citations, and can link straight to the PDF article with minimal effort.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:10 PM  

  • Bill, Google Scholar points to additional URLs for articles... preprints, etc.

    So I guess in some way, the additional URLs "route around" commercial entities.

    Just thinking out loud really.

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  • I'm a graduate library student, and I use Google Scholar all the time. My school subscribes to literally hundreds on on-line journals and databases, and it's not possible to search across all those sources in one sweep. Google Scholar gives me a list of references and lets me view an excerpt or abstract which gives me enough information to decide which articles to pursue in my school's database. Without Google Scholar I'd be drowning right now.

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