scholar.google.como

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/technology/18google.html
Google Plans New Service for Scientists and Scholars By JOHN MARKOFF

Published: November 18, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 - Google Inc. plans to announce on Thursday that it
is adding a new search service aimed at scientists and academic
researchers.

Google Scholar, which was scheduled to go online Wednesday evening at
scholar.google.com, is a result of the company's collaboration with a
number of scientific and academic publishers and is intended as a first
stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed
papers, books, abstracts and technical reports.  Google executives
declined to say how many additional documents and books had been indexed
and made searchable through the service. While the great majority of
recent scholarly papers and periodicals are indexed on the Web, many have
not been easily accessible to the public.

The engineer who led the project, Anurag Acharya, said the company had
received broad cooperation from academic, scientific and technical
publishers like the Association of Computing Machinery, Nature, the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Online Computer
Library Center.

NB: Its live and pretty amazing. See the "about" section at
google.scholar.com for some suggestions as to how to use it.


Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825