Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus
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Author(s): Greg Notess
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Sources(s): Community
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Abstract
"Google introduced a brand-new concept with Google Scholar [http://scholar.google.com]—specialized search aimed at finding scholarly information on the Web. With an initial focus on research articles from publishers participating in the CrossRef project and several collections of online preprints and other major scholarly sites, Google established a new approach to a broad range of scholarly literature (although its original coverage was stronger in science and technology than in the social sciences). In true Google fashion, the new search tool not only displayed links to individual documents, it also included citation references extracted from other documents using special algorithms developed at Google."