tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92630282024-03-07T21:21:52.194-05:00On Google ScholarWherein a librarian tracks a paradigm shift. Love it or hate it, the effect will be profound. Have any news, tips, tricks to pass along or think you might be interesting in posting here? tsondermann (at) gmail.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1133970825414028432005-12-07T10:53:00.000-05:002005-12-07T13:10:30.673-05:00Guess who's hiring?<a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?siteid=cj_1579948_10366244&job_did=j3g5w0630xrcv6zvcls&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=b19028dfe11d44ac8903491e007ccc49-187266274-tt-1">Strategic Partner Manager, Google Scholar - Mountain View Jobs in Mountain View, CA</a><blockquote>Google's rapidly growing content partnerships organization is looking for a Strategic Partner Manager who will be responsible for maintaining and growing strategic relationships with our Google Scholar partners. These partners include the top scholarly publishers, aggregators and repositories in the US and abroad.</blockquote>Let's just hope they hire someone that knows a thing or two about the humanities and social sciences...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com71tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1130258215087506032005-10-25T11:36:00.000-05:002005-10-25T11:37:21.680-05:00The Infinite LibraryFrom the <a href="http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/05autumn/library.asp">University of Toronto Magazine</a>: <blockquote>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.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1129831293735992222005-10-20T13:01:00.000-05:002005-10-20T13:01:33.746-05:00Who knew?<a href="http://www.dailytargum.com/media/paper168/news/2005/10/19/University/Libraries.Search.For.Better.Search.Engines-1025241.shtml">Libraries search for better search engines</a><blockquote>A lot of things are not relevant, current or unbiased when you just search online,' said Martin Kesselman, a Life Science librarian at Chang Science Library on Cook campus. 'In doing a regular Google search you're not going to find scholarly journals.' <em>In response to this growing concern, University librarians have come up with a compromise - Google Scholar.</em></blockquote>Emphasis mine.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1128950240975186922005-10-10T08:17:00.000-05:002005-10-10T08:17:21.006-05:00Gaga over Google? Scholar in the Social SciencesSusan writes in to note that she's co-published an article in Library Hi Tech that discusses some findings re: Scholar v. Fee-based databases in the Social Sciences. <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&contentId=1519956">Abstract available here.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com82tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1128538810731204112005-10-05T13:58:00.000-05:002005-10-06T12:00:36.300-05:00Scholar Ads<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5153/551/1600/scholar1.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5153/551/400/scholar1.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />This ad appeared in at least one university newspaper. Was it in yours?<br /><br />UPDATE: <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051006-105028">Gary weighs in with some thoughtful commentary.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1128432791445418312005-10-04T08:33:00.000-05:002005-10-04T08:33:11.513-05:00Google Scholar adds scholarly dimension to Internet searchesFrom the <a href="http://www.wilkesbeacon.com/media/paper533/news/2005/10/03/Features/Google.Scholar.Adds.Scholarly.Dimension.To.Internet.Searches-1006206.shtml">Wilkes University student paper</a><blockquote>Google--an Internet destination so huge it has become a common verb in the English language (as in 'Google it'). It can also be a librarian's worst nightmare.The Internet search engine has made even obscure knowledge easily accessible from the comfort of one's own home, making it virtually unnecessary for students to venture out to the library.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1127748837135348932005-09-26T10:33:00.000-05:002005-09-26T10:33:57.176-05:00Making Google Scholar Work for You: MIT LibrariesMIT is doing a <a href="http://libraries.mit.edu/help/google-scholar/">great job</a> in presenting all of the issues that go along with Scholar from a students perspective.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1126727490199027182005-09-14T14:51:00.000-05:002005-09-14T14:51:30.220-05:00College life, powered by Google<a href="http://services.google.com/university/">Noted without comment</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1126637854699524742005-09-13T13:57:00.000-05:002005-09-13T13:57:34.723-05:00Search by ScopeBrad writes in with news that under the <a href="http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search">Advanced Search</a> page you can now limit to particular subject areas. The categories highlight one of Scholar's lingering problems - being heavily dominated by the Natural Sciences. For example, "Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities" are all lumped under one category.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1124205891095290242005-08-16T10:24:00.000-05:002005-08-16T10:24:51.123-05:00UC Library Staff Use of Google ScholarThe CDL put together <a href="http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/evaluation_activities/docs/2005/googleScholar_summary_0805.pdf">this fine report (pdf)</a> based on a survey of University of California Libraries.<blockquote>On June 22, 2005, the CDL requested information from the campuses about librarian and library staff use of Google Scholar in their own work and at public service desks. Eight of ten campuses responded with a wealth of information about the creative ways in which the libraries use Google Scholar, as well as with their objections to its use. Immediately below is an overall summary of responses, followed by a document containing all the detailed responses received. At the end of the second section is a report from UCLA detailing how the UCLA library integrates and positions Google Scholar along with the rest of their electronic resources.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1123005883093278842005-08-02T13:04:00.000-05:002005-08-02T13:04:43.523-05:00Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and ScirusGreg Notess <a href="http://www.infotoday.com/online/jul05/OnTheNet.shtml">puts them head to head...</a><blockquote>Despite all the limitations and problems, both offer some unique reasons to use them beyond just watching their future development. For a quick, broad, multidisciplinary search on a very narrow, specific topic, either Scholar or Scirus can give a good start. For citation verification, both can help find erroneous as well as correct citation information. The Cited By links at Google Scholar can be a useful adjunct to the more comprehensive citation tracking from citation indexes via ISI's Web of Science (or can function as a partial replacement for those without access).</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1122473237956977852005-07-27T09:07:00.000-05:002005-07-27T09:07:17.960-05:00Librarians Point to Google Scholar<a href="http://wiredcampus.chronicle.com/2005/07/googles_search_.html">From The Chronicle:</a><blockquote>Google's search tool that focuses on academic material, called Google Scholar, is winning a prominent place in the hearts, minds, and Web sites of some librarians.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1122305328523167632005-07-25T10:28:00.000-05:002005-07-25T10:28:48.543-05:00Making Scholar more prominent?Peter has <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_07_17_fosblogarchive.html">noticed some interesting results in regular Google searches.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1119620103221685362005-06-24T08:35:00.000-05:002005-06-24T09:08:29.530-05:00Good bye Britney Spears, hello academic journalsOne of the <a href="http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/story.html?listing_id=18864">best stories about Scholar</a> from a college paper I've seen yet.<blockquote>Google Scholar is a different and more accurate way to find academically appropriate and peer-reviewed journal articles without getting all the rock star bios, sports results and blogs.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1118332096069563062005-06-09T10:48:00.000-05:002005-06-10T10:06:44.733-05:00Scholar on the Home PageBrad writes in to note that Scholar now appears as a link on the <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google homepage</a>. He's not seeing it on his screen at home, so there's a possibility that Google is singling out users coming from known .edu's. (<a href="http://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/2005/06/scholar_on_the_.html">Or maybe not.</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1118247132059376692005-06-08T11:12:00.000-05:002005-06-08T11:12:12.076-05:00Physicians and google Scholar<a href="http://www.workingfaster.com/sitelines/archives/2005_06.html">Rita</a> points everyone towards an article in the <a href="http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/172/12/1549">Canadian Medical Association Journal</a> titled "Google Scholar: A source for clinicians?" The general conclusion is:<blockquote>Google's launch of Scholar indicates the growing sophistication of Internet searchers. It addresses concerns about the quality of information found on the Internet and integrates previously inaccessible, high-quality commercial sites with more reliable sites available on the public Internet. Google Scholar may develop into a free, sophisticated tool, but, at least in the beta version, it is not a useful choice for clinicians.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1118085057294219222005-06-06T14:10:00.000-05:002005-06-06T14:10:57.323-05:00Interesting<a href="http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=30313">MSU library partners with Google</a><blockquote>Google recently approached Innovative Interfaces Inc., the longtime vendor of MSU's MAGIC catalog, in regard to setting up a pilot project to combine Innovative Interfaces software with the Google Scholar search engine, said Nancy Fleck, assistant director of technical services at the MSU library. Google Scholar is an academic search engine for scholarly literature.</blockquote>
<br />
<br />I'm not sure if this is something truly innovative (natch) or just a retelling of things we already know, and that something has been lost in the translation.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1117718184264561052005-06-02T08:16:00.000-05:002005-06-02T08:16:24.286-05:00Jasco on Google Scholar (Redux)I thought I'd posted <a href="http://www.gale.com/free_resources/reference/peter/current.htm#google">this latest review of Scholar</a>, but several of you have written in to share it with me (thanks) and as it turns out, I was thinking of something else. Peter again, puts Scholar through its' paces as no one else can, and finds several interesting deficiencies. His verdict essentially is that Scholar is not yet near the point where libraries should be dropping databases because of it.
<br />
<br />I tend to agree, though I'm not as dismissive. I've talked to enough faculty who've said that they no longer use our databases in favor of Scholar (a practice that will likely trickle down to students) to know that they aren't really all that concerned with the bulk of the complaints raised by the detractors of Scholar. Scholar works. And it works in a way that presents very little in the way of the hoops that we make them jump through to use our library databases. As a result, I believe that (most) researchers will be very happy with tools that are "just good enough." As a librarian, I bristle at the thought. As a realist, I completely understand where they're coming from...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1117114876328166172005-05-26T08:41:00.000-05:002005-06-02T08:26:26.120-05:00Scholarly journals' premier status diluted by WebMainly about open access, <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05143/509681.stm">but talks a bit about Scholar.</a><blockquote>The debate comes at a time when it's easier than ever to find scholarly articles by using simple Internet tools such as Google. In late 2004, Google Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., launched Google Scholar, a free service that can search for peer-reviewed articles as well as theses, abstracts and other scholarly material, much of it in scientific fields.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1116524587870307052005-05-19T12:43:00.000-05:002005-05-19T12:43:07.876-05:00Word on the street...is that <a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=G&q=%22muse.jhu.%2Bedu%22">Project Muse titles</a> are now (officially?) in Scholar. (And apparently <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=G&q=site:muse.jhu.edu">regular Google</a> as well.) Sweet.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1116341422128344892005-05-17T09:50:00.000-05:002005-05-17T09:50:22.136-05:00Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for FreeBarbara Quint <a href="http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050516-1.shtml">weighs in on</a> Scholar and OpenURLs. Long, but a comprehensive, worthwhile read.
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1115736208445935242005-05-10T09:43:00.000-05:002005-05-10T12:09:06.236-05:00Google Scholar Support for LibrariesThat pilot project I posted awhile back? Seems that they've rolled out <a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar/libraries.html">Google Scholar Support for Libraries</a> in a big way. <a href="http://www.resourceshelf.com/2005/05/be-it-resolved-that-google-scholar-is.html">ResourceShelf</a> has a ton of details.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1115320130513701952005-05-05T14:08:00.000-05:002005-05-05T14:08:50.583-05:00WEB4LIB Discussion on "stupid users"There's a really interesting <a href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0505/">discussion on WEB4LIB</a> re: complex library systems vs. googlized interfaces. Scroll down till you get to "[WEB4LIB] In defense of stupid users".Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1115229141220808322005-05-04T12:52:00.000-05:002005-05-04T12:52:21.310-05:00Review of Google Scholar<a href="http://www.charlestonco.com/review.cfm?id=225">From the Charleston Advisor</a><blockquote>While Google Scholar has made valiant attempts to include a range of resources in this category, it is apparent that coverage leans heavily on the sciences, rarely includes all the offerings even from partner publishers and misses many of the quality resources which are more usually accessible to scholars through institutional subscriptions.</blockquote>(Link boosted from <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html">Open Access News</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263028.post-1114442968366951082005-04-25T10:29:00.000-05:002005-04-25T10:29:49.073-05:00Yup.<a href="http://data-obsessed.renji.org/?p=142">Data Obsessed - Confession time</a><blockquote>I have a confession to make, one that should make me horribly ashamed as a librarian if some others in the field are to be believed...<br /><br />...My favorite source for scholarly articles is Google Scholar....<br /><br />...But mostly I love it because I can almost always find what I’m looking for.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4