[WEB4LIB] Welcome to the Schoogle Era

[Thomas Dowling]

Eric Hellman wrote:

>Google Scholar. Wow!
>  
>

Yeah but...

This goes a long way toward undoing the last three or four years of work 
on the appropriate copy problem.  Google knows an article exists: good.  
Google points you to (and only to) some publisher's web site: maybe 
good, maybe bad.  You may have access there, in which case it's good.  
You may have access to the same article online through a different 
aggregator, in which case it's remarkably bad.  There may be a print 
copy available to you, etc etc etc.  It's a sufficiently chronic problem 
that lots of us have thrown serious resources into services that answer 
the "Where is it available FOR ME?" question (namely, local citation 
resolvers) and Google Scholar does a swift end run around those resources.

-- 
Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu