Calling the scholars home: Google scholar as a tool for rediscovering the academic library

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 117-133

  York, Maurice C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Google Scholar; Information discovery and retrieval; Library instruction; Link resolvers; On line databases; Scholarly research; Search behavior; Search engines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746631298     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J136v10n03_11     Document Type: Article

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