Google Scholar

Ashley Brown, May 2008

Google Scholar Background Information

Google Scholar was released in November of 2004

Google Scholar Slogan: “Stand on the Shoulders of Giants” (borrowed from Isaac Newton): it is a thanks to all the scholars that have added to their area of study and have paved the path for new contributions

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Google Scholar Team Alex Verstak: One of the first to

work on Google Scholar, designed Library Links Program

Robert Tansley: Studies and creates systems to catalog digital articles

Christian DiCarlo: Acquires partnerships to get more literature for Google Scholar

Google Scholar Features Search many sources (including

professional societies, universities, academic publishers, and preprint repositories) through just one website

Read key papers in any field of research

Locate articles and abstracts, theses, peer-reviewed papers, and citations

Find a full paper on the worldwide web or through your own library

Google Scholar Page Rank System

Pages are ranked according to: author weight of complete text in the

article publication information the amount of times the text has

been cited in other literature of other scholars

Google Scholar Tools Advanced Search (Includes searching articles in only

certain fields of study Choice between all articles or just recent articles in

your search results Preferences

Lets you choose what language you want your search results to be in

Lets you add your university or local library if available for library links (up to three libraries)

How many links per page Bibliography Manager: choose to have citations

listed, available in five forms (RefMan, EndNote, BibTex, RefWorks, and WenXIianWang)

Google’s Library Links Program

If your school is signed up with Library Links Program, when you search on Google Scholar there is extra links that give you access to your school’s library server, which will then point you in the direction of the complete article

For libraries that list their holdings in OCLC Open WorldCat, there is a “Library Search” link in the Google Scholar search results that will point you in the direction of where you can find the book you need at your local library

Google Scholar Add-to-your-site Feature

You can add Google Scholar to your website so that people can link to scholarly articles from itUseful to teacher, advisor, or newspaper websites

Gets more people to use Google Scholar

Google Scholar Blog A website with a massively large

amount of information on Google Scholar

Started by Dean Giustini Slogan: “To advocate for librarians,

better search tools and web reorganization”

Updated Daily Links to Articles from Peter Jasco, who

has studied Google Scholar in-depth and written articles on his findings

Work Cited• http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar• http://www.google.com/librariancenter/newsletter/0612.html#

2• https://services.google.com/inquiry/scholar_email?hl=en• http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html• http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/libraries.html• http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/scholarsearch.html• http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html• http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search?hl=en&lr• http://scholar.google.com/scholar_preferences?

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