[WEB4LIB] RE: Google Scholar

[Brian Harrington]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Greg Fleming wrote:

> 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.

They're supposed to get a an abstract, or excerpt if no abstract is 
available.  I tried this from a shell account with no access, and 
interestingly the link returned by a regular Google search takes you to a 
"login or buy" page with just the citation, while the link returned by 
Scholar takes you to the abstract page.

                   -- Brian



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Brian Harrington
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