Reviews of Google Scholar & recent developments

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P=E9ter Jacs=F3 reviews Google Scholar
<http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/reference/peter/dec.htm#googleschol
ar>  in the December issue of P=E9ter's Reference Shelf
<http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/reference/peter/dec.htm> .

Excerpt:
'Google Scholar has enormous gaps in its coverage of publishers' archives,
and implicitly in the direct links to the full-text documents therein. The
citedness scores of documents displayed in the results lists have great
potential for choosing the most promising articles and books on a subject,
but they often are inflated. The prominent display of the citedness scores
could help the scholars and practitioners whose libraries don't have access
to the best citation-based systems, such as Web of Science
<http://www.galegroup.com/servlet/HTMLFileServlet?imprint=3D9999&region=3D7&=
file
Name=3Dreference/archive/200408/webscience.html>  and Scopus
<http://www.galegroup.com/servlet/HTMLFileServlet?imprint=3D9999&region=3D7&=
file
Name=3Dreference/archive/200409/scopus.html> , or to the smartest
implementations of citation-enhanced abstracting indexing databases, like
some on CSA and EBSCO. Google should take a page from the best open-access
services and repositories, such as CiteBase, Research Index and RePEc/LogEc
<http://logec.hhs.se/about.htm> , which handle citing and cited references
and citedness scores <http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/Jacso-citedness.pdf>
much better than Google Scholar. Google's crawlers, which many scholarly
publishers and preprint servers let in to their archives for this project,
picked up information for many redundant and irrelevant pages and ignored a
few million full-text scholarly papers and/or their citation/abstract
records. With the exception of the authors' name field, Google treated the
items in the huge archives as any of the zillions of unstructured pages on
the Web. Google Scholar needs much refinement in collecting, filtering,
processing and presenting this valuable data....I promise that I will write
a hagiographic review about Google Scholar when it is done, and done well.'
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Posted by Peter Suber to Open Access News
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_05_fosblogarchive.html#110243497
986886616>  at 12/7/2004

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Google to Scan Famous Libraries
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/3238>

This is a collage of the news coverage stories about this major
development that provides excerpts of and links to these news reports.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/3238>


Google to Digitize Books
 From the New York Times: http://tinyurl.com/4tg2b

 From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/free/2004/12/2004121401n.htm


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