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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
 Was started by Anurag Acharya
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8762514765927564293 (18.40-25.00)
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
Google Scholar Add-toyour-site Feature
 You can add Google Scholar to
your website so that people can
link to scholarly articles from it
 Useful 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
Work Cited
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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?hl=en&lr=&output
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• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8762514765927564293 (18.40-25.00)
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