Have been following this discussion with great interest - one simple
point occurs to me (and apologies if I have missed it being said
before).
Surely it is not the ability to find material which is the main
objective - surely it should be to find the BEST material. In other
words - to complete a search knowing (or at least hoping!) that you have
not missed anything!
Or am I being over-simplistic.
Ann
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee, Rupert [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 19 November 2004 12:07
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Google Scholar - one to watch
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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