How do you define 'best'?
Malcolm Dobson
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> From: Osborne, Ann [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 22 November 2004 13:18
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> Subject: Re: Google Scholar - one to watch
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> 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
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> 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
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> The British Library
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dobson, Malcolm [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 19 November 2004 10:41
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> 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
>
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> > From: Alan Fricker [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 18 November 2004 09:19
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> > 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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