Re: scholar.google vs Scirus

[Anna Ercoli Schnitzer <schnitzr@umich.edu>]

Try this test comparing Google Scholar and Scirus:
http://www.extranet.elsevier.com/listman/scirus/nov04/google%20online.htm

Anna Ercoli Schnitzer
Information Services
Taubman Medical Library
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48109
schnitzr@umich.edu

"Sloan, Bernie" wrote:

> Here's an overview of "Google Scholar" from some librarians (Shirl Kennedy
> and Gary Price):
>
> http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/11/wow-its-google-scholar.html
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Hamaker, Chuck
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 6:16 PM
> Subject: scholar.google.como
>
> 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
>
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