I tried out Google Scholar, by searching for publications by a friend of
mine who does research in the field of public health. It got everything of
his that was in PubMed, plus much else besides. Then (since I am not just a
medical information scientist), I tried using it to find some (very obscure)
papers in zoology that I published about 20 years ago in one of my previous
incarnations. I found that it was about 50% as successful as Web of Science
- not bad for a free service, but not really professional-level. So my
impression is: Google Scholar is better than PubMed for medicine, but still
has a way to go in other subject areas.
I assume that by the time it is officially launched, Google Scholar will
have acquired an "advanced search" option.
- Rupert Le
Research Service
The British Library
-----Original Message-----
From: Dobson, Malcolm [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 19 November 2004 10:41
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Google Scholar - one to watch
All the discussion so far has assumed that our users are looking for medical
material. For those of us working with the social rather than the medical
model of health, and health policy, the standard medical databases are not
terribly useful. I've just been asked for a paper on devolution & health
policy. Searches on medline, ASSIA & Emerald managemnt for the author & his
institution - the information the requester had - failed to bring up any
results. A search on Google Scholar gave me two papers by the author which
were useful (both available as full text), & one of which gave me a lead to
the one asked for. One up for Google scholar, I would say.
Malcolm Dobson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Fricker [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 18 November 2004 09:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Google Scholar - one to watch
>
> Dear all,
>
> Now in beta - Google Scholar
>
> http://scholar.google.com
>
> From the about page:
> Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly
> literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints,
> abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use
> Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic
> publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and
> universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
>
> Write up by Gary Price at Resource Shelf
> http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/11/wow-its-google-scholar.html
>
> An interesting development!
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan
>
>
>
> Alan Fricker
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