1. THE USE OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR AS
AN ACADEMIC RESEARCH TOOL

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Larry Page & Sergey Brin
 Larry Page & Sergey Brin from
Stanford University
 In the late 90’s (1996)
 Rank webpage : content, keyword
& other webpage
 The mission of Google
 Search information easily

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Anurag Acharya
 What is Google Scholar
 G.S Founder A. Verstak and A. Acharya
 Beta started 2004, G.S. launched 2006
 Formation of GS:
 Improving indexing
 Extracting metadata
 Ranking for scholarly literature

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G.S. : What does it include
 Publishers
 Proprietary Database
 Cross-referenced Articles
 Institutional Repositories
 E-print Servers
 Self-achieved Materials
Scholarly materials; articles and book citations :

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G.S. and Open access documents
 Commercial publishers:
 20% to 40% per year subscription hikes
 Monopolies formed
 Universities paying high for same research
 Scholars no longer benefited of scholarships
 Proposal : Steven Harnad
 Publish unreferred preprints force price down
 Bypass copyright restrictions

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Open access initiative benefits
 Scholarly community: free access
 Researcher: increase citation impact
 Libraries: institutional financial savings

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Is G.S. scholarly
Scholarly, Full-text or Abstract :
 Not all information contained in GS is necessary scholar
 Not all document are abstract or full text, but links are provided
From where can it be accessed :
 On campuses
 Off campuses

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How to use
http://youtu.be/4x5fo_32FJo

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Advantages of G.S.
 User friendly interface
 Searches wide range of
scholarly sources
 Search facilities access
without subscription
 Advanced search allows
sorting and filtering
 Results returned with
most relevant first
 G.S. connects you to
library resources

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Disadvantages of G.S.
 Bias towards scientific and
technological disciplines
 No list of source
publications used
 Search mechanism not
accurate or flexible
 Results list not
bibliographically thorough
 Sorting facilities,
downloading results not
developed
 Full-text delivery very
patchy

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Is G.S. an academic research tool
 Adequate information for task at hand
 General information on any subject matters
 High school college and general public
 G.S is designed for scholarly research.
Academic research tool: YES

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Is G.S. an academic research tool
 GS not for wide-range or clinical research
 Not comprehensive or exhaustive ; general
 Insufficient resources Undergraduate, Postgraduate and PHD
 Students depend on G.S as only research tool
Academic research tool: NO

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Reference List
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8762514765927564293
• http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/
• http://www.gardner-webb.edu/library/googlescholar.html
• http://www.istl.org/06-winter/databases2.html
• http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=5735
• http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html
• http://www.uwic.ac.uk/Library/electronic/elecresources/
googlescholar.htm

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