On Google Scholar

Wherein 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.

12.07.2005

Guess who's hiring?

Strategic Partner Manager, Google Scholar - Mountain View Jobs in Mountain View, CA Google's rapidly growing content partnerships organi...

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 multination...

10.20.2005

Who knew?

Libraries search for better search engines A lot of things are not relevant, current or unbiased when you just search online,' said Mart...

10.10.2005

Gaga over Google? Scholar in the Social Sciences

Susan writes in to note that she's co-published an article in Library Hi Tech that discusses some findings re: Scholar v. Fee-based data...

10.05.2005

Scholar Ads

This ad appeared in at least one university newspaper. Was it in yours? UPDATE: Gary weighs in with some thoughtful commentary.

10.04.2005

Google Scholar adds scholarly dimension to Internet searches

From the Wilkes University student paper Google--an Internet destination so huge it has become a common verb in the English language (as in ...

9.26.2005

Making Google Scholar Work for You: MIT Libraries

MIT is doing a great job in presenting all of the issues that go along with Scholar from a students perspective.

9.14.2005

College life, powered by Google

Noted without comment .

9.13.2005

Search by Scope

Brad writes in with news that under the Advanced Search page you can now limit to particular subject areas. The categories highlight one of...

8.16.2005

UC Library Staff Use of Google Scholar

The CDL put together this fine report (pdf) based on a survey of University of California Libraries. On June 22, 2005, the CDL requested in...

8.02.2005

Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus

Greg Notess puts them head to head... Despite all the limitations and problems, both offer some unique reasons to use them beyond just watch...

7.27.2005

Librarians Point to Google Scholar

From The Chronicle: Google's search tool that focuses on academic material, called Google Scholar, is winning a prominent place in the h...

7.25.2005

Making Scholar more prominent?

Peter has noticed some interesting results in regular Google searches.

6.24.2005

Good bye Britney Spears, hello academic journals

One of the best stories about Scholar from a college paper I've seen yet. Google Scholar is a different and more accurate way to find a...

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