[WEB4LIB] Re: Fw: Joseph Henry Press -- free online books

[D.H. Mattison]

I think the National Academies Press is one of the great little known
treasures of online publications out there. A tremendous resource. What was
the Joseph Henry Press title that caused the scandal? Was it withdrawn or
revised?

I haven't read all the responses to the Google Scholar/Schoogle thread, but
did want to point out the existence of one interesting scholarly resource
that regular old Google already crawls: getCITED.org. Google doesn't crawl
the mirror, read-only site myLITsearch.org. I don't know how reliable the
data is on getCITED, but I know my own references are valid because most of
them were put there by me. :-) I hadn't tried this before, but mattison
site:www.getcited.org gives a half-decent presentation. getCITED works on
the Wiki principle, where members police the content and changes. You can
also, as in many wiki sites, view an audit trail of changes to individual
getCITED publications, identities and institutions by clicking on the Pub ID
timestamp hyperlink.

David Mattison
Victoria, BC, Canada
dmattison at shaw.ca
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[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Patricia F Anderson
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Fw: Joseph Henry Press -- free online books


I link to some of them, but at the same time there is at least one John
Henry title that generated a great deal of scandal due to methodlogic
inaccuracies and questionable reporting practices. So ... be selective.
RE, Google Scholar, I tested it with some college kids homework questions,
and it failed utterly to retrieve helpful resources. Perhaps *too*
scholarly for the typical student? I'll be watching it closely as it
evolves, but am not yet persuaded that G-Scholar is as useful as G-News,
for example.

Patricia Anderson, pfa at umich.edu