Re: DATABASES: Google Scholar

[Thomas Krichel <krichel@openlib.org>]

David Goodman writes

> I used the term _good_ web services. I suspect that what we now see is
> just the embryonic stages.

Examples for more than embronic services are given by the RePEc services.
See Peter Jasco's review, in Online, 1 May 2004, Volume 28; Issue 3. Here
is what Peter writes in his introduction

| All three reviews in this issue focus on economic literature
| databases. Economics has been the turf of the EconLit database for
| decades. In the past few years, however, there have been many projects
| to make at least the abstracts of substantial economic research papers
| freely available through the Web. One of the most successful of the
| international collaborative efforts is the RePEc (Research Papers in
| Economics) archive, which is being implemented with different features
| by talented economists and programmers in many countries as varied as
| Sweden, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S.
| 
| My first pick is IDEAS, one of the many excellent implementations of
| the RePEc collection of free abstracts for more than 200,000 journal
| articles, working papers, books, book chapters, and software. Over
| half of the abstracts have links to the full-text digital version. The
| other pick is a spectacularly well-implemented bibliometric service
| that delivers very informative statistics about the papers, journals,
| series, and authors in RePEc. The pan is the American Economic
| Association's EconLit database, which is widely licensed by many
| college libraries and research centers, but is becoming increasingly
| less and less state of the art.

Disclosure: I am the founder of RePEc. 

Cheers,

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