THE USE OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR AS AN ACADEMIC RESEARCH TOOL

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Larry Page & Sergey Brin

Larry Page & Sergey Brin from Stanford University

In the late 90’s (1996) Rank webpage : content, keyword

& other webpage The mission of Google Search information easily

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Anurag Acharya

What is Google Scholar G.S Founder A. Verstak and A. Acharya Beta started 2004, G.S. launched 2006 Formation of GS:

Improving indexing Extracting metadata Ranking for scholarly literature

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G.S. : What does it include

Publishers

Proprietary Database

Cross-referenced Articles

Institutional Repositories

E-print Servers

Self-achieved Materials

Scholarly materials; articles and book citations :

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G.S. and Open access documents

Commercial publishers: 20% to 40% per year subscription hikes

Monopolies formed

Universities paying high for same research

Scholars no longer benefited of scholarships

Proposal : Steven Harnad Publish unreferred preprints force price down

Bypass copyright restrictions

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Open access initiative benefits

Scholarly community: free access

Researcher: increase citation impact

Libraries: institutional financial savings

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Is G.S. scholarly

Scholarly, Full-text or Abstract :

Not all information contained in GS is necessary scholar

Not all document are abstract or full text, but links are provided

From where can it be accessed :

On campuses

Off campuses

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How to use

http://youtu.be/4x5fo_32FJo

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Advantages of G.S.

User friendly interface

Searches wide range of scholarly sources

Search facilities access without subscription

Advanced search allows sorting and filtering

Results returned with most relevant first

G.S. connects you to library resources

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Disadvantages of G.S.

Bias towards scientific and technological disciplines

No list of source publications used

Search mechanism not accurate or flexible

Results list not bibliographically thorough

Sorting facilities, downloading results not developed

Full-text delivery very patchy

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Is G.S. an academic research tool

Adequate information for task at hand

General information on any subject matters

High school college and general public

G.S is designed for scholarly research.

Academic research tool: YES

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Is G.S. an academic research tool

GS not for wide-range or clinical research

Not comprehensive or exhaustive ; general

Insufficient resources Undergraduate, Postgraduate and PHD

Students depend on G.S as only research tool

Academic research tool: NO

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Reference List

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8762514765927564293

• http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/

• http://www.gardner-webb.edu/library/googlescholar.html

• http://www.istl.org/06-winter/databases2.html

• http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=5735

• http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html

• http://www.uwic.ac.uk/Library/electronic/elecresources/ googlescholar.htm

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