[WEB4LIB] Re: Welcome to the Schoogle Era

[Tiffini Travis]

I meant to send this to the listserv:

ERIC wrote: I think a significant number of library-world 
databases

have just become marginal niche products.



I am hoping this email is spam trying to push yet another 
pathetic attempt to trick students into not using their 
library resources..uhm how about the library world 
databases with ACCESS to articles..great just what my 
students need another internet product that will give them 
1/50 of the information available on their topic and offer 
them the option to PAY for the articles once they get to 
them...can anyone say QUESTIA? lol
my dos centavos
Tiffini


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:13:45 -0800 (PST)
  Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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
>