[Web4lib] Review of Google Scholar

[Ian Winship]

> I'm looking for reviews of Google Scholar that aren't sponsored by 
> database publishers. I know there's one in LJ and one in Online-- 
> suggestions of others?

Hamaker, C & Spry, B 
Google Scholar 
Serials 18(1) March 2005, 70-72
http://www.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0953-0460&volume=18&
issue=1&spage=70 - if you have a subscription

Myhill, M 
Charleston Advisor 6(4) April 2005
http://www.charlestonco.com/review.cfm?id=225

Bewlew, Richard K.
Scientific impact quantity and quality: Analysis of two sources of
bibliographic data
arXiv:cs.IR/0504036 v1 11 Apr 2005
(on the value of GS for citations compared with WoS)

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