[WEB4LIB] RE: Google Scholar

[Kathleen Shearer]

Hi Greg, 

As a non-subscriber, the link took me to the citation and abstract of the article. 
Of course, it is impossible from this view to tell where the search terms are located in the article (except through the brief context provided by Google in their search results).

When the same search is done through Google scholar, the results are slightly more helpful for a non-subscriber. 
The results show a very brief citation (with no link), presumably taken from the citation of the 'Contact Dermatitis' citation.

Kathleen



Kathleen Shearer
Research Associate
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
(514) 847-9068
mkshearer at videotron.ca
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Greg Fleming 
  To: Multiple recipients of list 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 10:18 AM
  Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Google Scholar


  Here's an example that I came across searching Google and not Scholar while 
  trying to verify a citation for ILL:

  "Making sense of sensitive skin"

  The second hit will get you a reference in Contact Dermatitis. We subscribe 
  to this title so I got directly to the article and discovered my hit in a 
  footnote. (A poster session at a conference, good luck ILL!) I'm curious 
  what a non-subscriber would see. Presumably they would just be bewildered 
  by this result, when in fact this gave a very good answer to the question 
  that I was trying to answer.

  Greg

  At 08:48 PM 11/22/2004, Eric Hellman wrote:
  >they are making private arrangement with publishers, for example the
  >crossref search program:
  >http://www.crossref.org/01company/pr/press20040428.html
  >
  >My understanding is that the publisher has to make publicly available
  >at least an abstract, but Google will index the entire document.
  >
  >Eric
  >
  >At 3:47 PM -0800 11/22/04, Chan, Ian wrote:
  > >How is Google indexing the content within databases that require user
  > >authentication to access?
  > >Does the user still have to pay to view the full-text?





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