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Information Today November 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content The launch of Google Scholar may lead Yahoo! to upgrade searching and presentation of results from its own collection of material from publishers, societies, libraries, and library vendors acquired through its active Content Acquisition Program. |
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product? |
Information Today May 16, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
D-Lib September 2005 Bauer & Bakkalbasi |
An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment A study comparing the citation counts from three resources for research articles taken from the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. |
Search Engine Watch November 18, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google Scholar Offers Access To Academic Information Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web. |
Information Today June 13, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Elsevier's Scirus Opens Repository Search Service Institutional repositories of digital data at universities and other research institutions may now receive deeper, more thorough indexing and full-text delivery through Elsevier's free, sci-tech search engine, Scirus. |
Information Today August 27, 2007 Barbara Quint |
Changes at Google Scholar: A Conversation With Anurag Acharya For many researchers, faculty, and students, Google Scholar is the first search tool used, challenging the popularity and utility of veteran databases licensed by academic and corporate libraries. |
Searcher October 2000 Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo |
Preprint Servers: Pushing the Envelope of Electronic Scholarly Publishing Consulting with peers has traditionally dominated the way researchers gather information. Those peers often identify proposed publications. Electronic preprints allow access to information without the time lag inherent in traditional publishing... |
Searcher December 2000 Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Offers Alternative to Google Scholar: Windows Live Academic Search The new search tool will search proprietary content from scholarly publishers, as well as the open Web. The initial beta test offers content from 10 publishers; two more are on the way. |
Information Today January 23, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Elsevier's Scopus Introduces Citation Tracker: Challenge to Thomson ISI's Web of Science? Elsevier's Scopus Citation Tracker service expands the functionality of its "cited by" feature on its search results page. |
Information Today March 13, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Adds Pay-Per-View Delivery from The British Library Google Scholar continues to enhance its ability to not only find scholarly content but also to fetch it. |
The Motley Fool November 19, 2004 Rich Duprey |
Google Graduates to Vertical Search New Scholar service allows searching of peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts, technical reports, etc. that would normally be inaccessible. |
Information Today August 13, 2015 |
ProQuest-Google Scholar Indexing Is Now Complete The full text of ProQuest's scholarly content (journals and working papers, etc.) is now indexed in Google Scholar. |
Information Today August 4, 2011 Nancy K. Herther |
Scholar Citations -- Google Moves into the Domain of Web of Science and Scopus On July 20, 2011, Google formally launched Google Scholar Citations to provide "a simple way for scholars to keep track of citations to their articles." |
Information Today April 16, 2007 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Societies Unite to Create Scitopia.org Search Portal Thirteen scholarly society publishers are working together to create a free federated, vertical search portal capable of accessing some 3 million articles spanning as far back as 150 years, as well as some patents. |
InternetNews April 13, 2006 David Miller |
Microsoft Searching in Academia Windows Live Academic Search, Microsoft's search service for scientists, scholars and other such studious folks, debuted on Tuesday with the noble aim of providing easy access to information tucked away in specialized pedagogic journals and conference notes. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2009 Nelson et al. |
FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes. |
Searcher January 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! Whatever librarians and information professionals do to help the new services, make sure they know it's our help that brought it about. Copy them with information on what you're doing and what you need. |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
ONLINE May/Jun 2005 Greg R. Notess |
Searching Books Between the Covers When and how to use Google and Amazon for full text book searches. Also, a comparison of the two resources reveals inconsistency with both. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
Information Today June 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Factiva, Ingenta, Google, and More Library and information vendors seemed to be holding back their big announcements for two events in June: the SLA and ALA annual conferences. |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
Searcher February 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world? |
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Search Engine Watch April 12, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search The targeted search service is focused on connecting students and researchers with peer-reviewed scholarly information, and addresses two needs of the academic community that have traditionally been under-served. |
Information Today September 18, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Traditional Information Industry Opens Premium Content to Google News Archive The Google News Archive integrates free with for-fee references, alerting users to priced information, often with the actual price tag amounts, before connecting them with paid content Web sites. |
Information Today August 2002 Barbara Quint |
CrossRef Search and QuestionPoint offer challenges to traditional services Publishers International Linking Association announced plans to expand CrossRef, its master database of links... OCLC and the Library of Congress announced that on June 3 they would launch a beta test of QuestionPoint, their new collaborative reference service... etc. |
Information Today May 3, 2004 Barbara Quint |
CrossRef Search Uses Google to Provide Full-Text Access Google will supply the search technologies and CrossRef the reference links to publisher Web sites for the pilot project, CrossRef Search that will enable users to search the full text of scholarly journal articles, conference proceedings, and other sources from nine leading publishers. |
Information Today January 16, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Find-for-Free Policy Returns for Infotrieve's ArticleFinder The price for finding content continues to plummet as Infotrieve offers use of ArticleFinder for free. |
BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
The Web Hits the Stacks The bulk of human knowledge represented by printed material -- especially that more than 25 years old -- does not exist in digital form. But Yahoo! and Google are are leading the way in efforts to open the world of print and proprietary material to browsing. |
Information Today January 26, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources |
D-Lib October 2002 |
Open Citation Linking: The Way Forward Free, unrestricted access to research papers is increasing the speed of scientific communication. This article describes the Open Citation project's efforts to build tools to aid in archiving papers. |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Information Today March 19, 2009 |
Project MUSE Expands Author Discovery Feature MUSE expanded the search to include links to more works by the author in Google Scholar and OCLC WorldCat. |
Information Today June 20, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Readex Announces Digital Edition of American Broadsides and Ephemera... Two More Linking Deals with Google Scholar... H.W. Wilson Data to Power Bowker's Book Analysis System... |
Information Today October 25, 2010 Nancy Herther |
Thomson Reuters Announces Book Citation Index--Scheduled for Release in 2Q 2011 Thomson Reuters announced a new product, Book Citation Index, to add to its suite of citation indexes. Vice president for editorial development and publisher relations, James Testa, talks about the story behind this announcement. |
Information Today November 2006 Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works. |
Information Today September 3, 2001 Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Launches 12 New Author-Initiated Research E-Journals In a major new publishing initiative, BioMed Central has expanded its role in pioneering alternatives for scholarly publishing on the Web... |
Information Today August 28, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Institutional Repositories on Target: ARL Survey and Scopus/Scirus Features The Association of Research Libraries has surveyed its members to collect baseline data on institutional repositories, a potentially transforming, technological realignment of scholarly communication. |
Information Today April 7, 2015 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest to Open Content Through Google Scholar ProQuest, has announced that it will be sending the full texts of scholarly journals, conference presentations, and working papers to Google for inclusion in the widely used Google Scholar. |
Information Today May 7, 2012 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest for Everyone: The Udini Service Officially Launches ProQuest has officially launched Udini, an end-user service that is open to all web users. |
Information Today December 18, 2008 Barbara Quint |
"Hundreds of Titles," "Dozens of Publishers"--Magazines Going Into Google Book Search As Google Book Search turns more and more into what might be better named "Google Library" (or even "Everyone's Library"), it has expanded to include magazines. |
Information Today June 5, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Shuts Down Two of Its Google `Wannabe's': Live Search Books and Live Search Academic The reason for the cancellation was money or the lack of it. Microsoft could not foresee a sustainable business model for the service. |
Information Today October 29, 2007 Nancy Herther |
Eugene Garfield Launches HistCite HistCite gives users easy methods for identifying core literature from Web of Science, by marking literature in the database and moving it into the software for analysis. |
Information Today August 2004 Peter Jacso |
Linking on Steroids Insights into the best and worst linking practices from an expert in the scholarly publishing world. |
Information Today November 19, 2012 Barbie E. Keiser |
Springer Gets Reference Manager Papers Papers acts as a repository for digital academic documents in one's personal library, accepting 85 different types of documents, including books, articles, web pages, patents, reports, etc. |
Information Today October 2000 Robin Peek |
Focus on Publishing: E-Prints Are Gaining Momentum While e-prints have been a well-known topic of discussion in scholarly journal circles for years now, producing them is still a bigger, and more difficult step to take than just digitizing journals. And unlike photocopier disdain, there isn't yet the universal groundswell to rally the masses... |