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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
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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
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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