Checking under the hood: Evaluating Google scholar for reference use

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 135-148

  Adlington, Janice ^a,c   Benda, Chris ^b,c  

^a Central Library   (United States)

^b Peabody Library   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

College and university libraries; Evaluation; Google; Google Scholar; Reference tools; Research databases

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746604769     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J136v10n03_12     Document Type: Article

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