[WEB4LIB] New articles on Google Scholar

[Karen Coyle]

I find interesting that there's little distinction made between books
and other monographs (OCLC Worldcat) and journal articles, and between
searching in metadata and searching in full text. So although some
Worldcat records are searchable in Yahoo and Google, what you are
searching is the bibliographic record. For journal articles, sometimes
the Google search is based on the full text of the article, but
sometimes it is based on the metadata + abstract. This has got to make a
tremendous difference in the kinds of results you get, yet the article
toss them all together as if they are the same thing.

kc

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 13:02, Sloan, Bernie wrote:
> A couple of recent interesting pieces on Google Scholar:
> 
> >From The Scientist:
> 
> Payne, Doug. Google Scholar welcomed: New academic search service is
> applauded but librarians, academics have some reservations.
> http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20041123/01/  
> 
> >From Information Today:
> 
> Quint, Barbara. Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content.
> http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041122-1.shtml
> 
> Bernie Sloan
> Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
> University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
> 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
> Champaign, IL  61820
> 
> Phone: (217) 333-4895
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> E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu
> 
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