Google scholar: Potentially good for users of academic information

Journal of Electronic Publishing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Friend, Frederick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33847686346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10802711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0009.105     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Information about Google is available on the Google international Web site http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html.
2. Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown, "Open access self-archiving: an author study," May 2005. http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/2005_Open_Access_Report.pdf
3. http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html
4. http://www.oclc.org/questionpoint/about/default.htm
5. http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal/
6. See reference 2 above
7. The Scirus service makes a virtue of limited content by challenging science users to find content more relevant to their needs through Scirus than through a wider Google search. The invitation to users can be taken up at http://www.extranet.elsevier.com/listman/BMN/none.htm.
8. ISI's products and services are described at www.isinet.com
9. Research is still under way into the use and citation-levels of open access content, but a good description of the "effect of open access upon citation impact" is contained in the slide at http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/OATAnew.pdf#search='Open%20access%20citation.
10. http://scholar.google.com/scholar/publishers.html
11. http://scholar.google.com/scholar/libraries.html
12. http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/about/default.htm
13. http://www.google.com/univ/utexas
14. The semantic grid "vision," combining the semantic web with the Grid, is described at http://www.semanticgrid.org/vision.html.