Google Scholar

There's been a flurry of blogging activity today about the new Google Scholar service which went live yesterday. I read a little bit about GS before it went into production but haven't really had a change to take a look today so I'll reserve judgment. But I think it does have implications for academic libraries and as Dennis Jerz notes in a very good review on his blog today, we will definitely need to knowledgeable about what it can and can't do.

Excerpt from About Google Scholar: "Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."

Sample comments from LISNews, librarian.net, Resource Shelf, and It's All Good. I'm sure there will be a lot more news and discussions on blogs and in "traditional" library lit to come.

On a humorous note, the Blogger spell check utility suggests that I replace "blogging" with "flogging" for some reason. Interesting.