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| Google Scholarly |
| Author: | Jane Macoustra |
| Date: | Friday, 19th Nov 2004 10:39 |
| Views: | 3,936 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Internet Searching, Webmaster, eCommerce | | URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b30646 |
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I’ve been reading the reviews about Google Scholarly and taken a quick look at it. It is under Beta Testing. There’s a couple of articles from Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3437471 and also the Resource Shelf http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/11/wow-its-google-scholar.html
which seem relatively pleased with the Google Scholarly product. However, my point is that some of the materials are deemed to be “not quite scholarly” (Gary Price) – so why are Information Literacy lecturers spending their time teaching higher education students how to evaluate authentic resources, when Google has come up with a product that may contain dubious “academic” information. Will the student assume that because they found some information in Google Scolarly, that it will all be top quality?
My second point is that Universities spend huge amounts of money providing database access free to the students where they can locate “pure” peer-reviewed information. Will Google’s new product now detract from students making proper use of these databases in favour of using Google Scholarly. If so, the Universities are going to be wasting a huge amount of their £££££s on resources that will be used by fewer and fewer students.
Google is the in search engine. When I teach students about Internet resources, and ask for a show of hands for Google users, it’s 97% of them and they are ignorant about what else is out on the ‘net. Also, they don't know how to evaluate the information they find.
While Google is not taking any revenues from its collusion with the academic publishers at this time, I can’t help wondering what the real issue is with creating this product. There’s something missing from the equation.
Full text is not always available, just a citation - which means that students will need to access a library (a good thing!)
But both publishers and Google must eventually get something out of creating Google Scholarly. I don't mean to be so cynical, but not many good things are free (or remain so). |
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 | Google Scholarly | | I’ve been reading the reviews about Google Scholarly and taken a quick look at it. It is under Beta Testing. ... |
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Jane Macoustra |
19/11/04 10:39 |
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I think that if you look at the item under discussion you will see that it is in fact 'Google ... |
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Helen Millar |
24/11/04 23:09 |
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| | Re: Google Scholarly | | Hi Helen,
Thanks for pointing that out. I just wonder if the name changed recently or if that was my own ... |
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Jane Macoustra |
25/11/04 20:51 |
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