I thought there might be some interest in the new
Google search engine which is currently in Beta-test.
Access at http://www.scholar.google.com/
It describes its objectives as:
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.
Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders
your search results by how relevant they are to your
query, so the most useful references should appear at
the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into
account the full text of each article as well as the
article's author, the publication in which the article
appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly
literature. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes
and extracts citations and presents them as separate
results, even if the documents they refer to are not
online. This means your search results may include
citations of older works and seminal articles that
appear only in books or other offline publications.
Please let us know if you have suggestions, questions
or comments about Google Scholar. We recognize the
debt we owe to all those in academia whose work has
made Google itself a reality and we hope to make
Google Scholar as useful to this community as
possible. We believe everyone should have a chance to
stand on the shoulders of giants.
I have already found one interesting article on RK and
Warfare, and there are many more citations, articles,
etc on RK that don't come up during a normal Google
search.
With best regards
David Page
Harrow, UK
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