Google Plans New Service for Scientists and Scholars

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22association+of+internet+researchers%22&btnG=Search

Hi all, Google Scholar is actually up and running already. It is http://scholar.google.com/

November 18, 2004
By JOHN MARKOFF

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/technology/18google.html?oref=login&th

The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 - Google Inc. plans to announce on Thursday that it is adding a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers.

Google Scholar, which was scheduled to go online Wednesday evening at scholar.google.com, is a result of the company's collaboration with a number of scientific and academic publishers and is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports.

The new Google service, which includes a listing of scientific citations as well as ways to find materials at libraries that are not online, will not initially include the text advertisements that are shown on standard pages for Google search results.

It's supremely cool. Since the bulk of the web has long been the unindexed so-called "dark web", this hugely augments the amount of information available for deep research on a topic.

development. The first instinct of students these days is to "google" a topic. Now they can get "hits" from the serious scientific literature. :bounce:

On edit: Of course I could not resist putting my own name in first to see who was citing my work. ;-)

Is there a research thread that this could link to?

Hopefully it will be just as helpful as pubmed in finding journal articles...lord knows I use pubmed enough!

better than most of my university databases (which doesn't speak as highly of google as it does the massive cutbacks at my university and the exorbitant license fees that professional journals feel that MUST charge everyone these days).

Still, a worthy research tool and there's usually some relevant and quality free material beyond the usual abstracts available.