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The excitement of Google Scholar, the worry of Google Print
Abstract
In late 2004 Google announced two major projects, the unveiling of Google Scholar and a major expansion of the Google Print digitization program. Both projects have generated discussion within the library and research communities, and Google Print has received significant media attention. This commentary describes exciting educational possibilities stimulated by Google Scholar, and argues for caution regarding the Google Print project.
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“Our results show that Google Scholar is indeed a useful platform for searching for environmental science grey literature that would benefit researchers such as systematic reviewers, agreeing with previous research in medicine [32,33].”
From The role of google scholar in evidence reviews and its applicability to grey literature searching (2015) · cites this paper as [32]
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- Google Scholar Beta. [http://Scholar.google.com/]
- Gorman M, Marcum DB, McGlamery S, Wolpert AJ: Google at the Gate. American Libraries. 36 (3): 40-43.
- Google Scholar. [http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html]
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The role of google scholar in evidence reviews and its applicability to grey literature searching
Haddaway, N. R., Collins, A. M., Coughlin, D., & Kirk, S. (2015) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0138237 · Cited by 2,387
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Metadata
- Authors
- Banks, M. A.
- Venue
- Biomedical Digital Libraries
- Published
- 2005-03-22
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1742-5581
- PMC
- PMC1079792
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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