LIS-LINK Comrades!
A quick question. What are your feelings about Google Scholar? Do you, as
I do, feel that it's an irrelevance when we spend 10's of 1000's of pounds on
'proper' bibliographic databases or do you feel that it has a role to play? If
so, given that our students are largely steered away from the WWW for
academic purposes, what is GS's role. I can see that it could be very useful
for a person pursuing 'academic' interests who isn't attached to an
institution of FE/HE, but does it have a role for FE/HE students? I feel that
it hasn't but I could be persuaded otherwise.
Please reply direct to me rather than to the list.
Andy
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Andrew Barrow
Science Librarian
Frewen Library (FL0.27)
University of Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH
PO1 2ST
Tel: (023) 9284-3236
Fax: (023) 9284-3233
Web: http://www.port.ac.uk/library/barrow
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