More Schoogle
It certianly didn't take long for Google Scholar-ing to get a funny name! More interesting discussion from Metafilter,Web4Lib Archives and Digital Librarian. Also a free online article from the Chronicle. There's really too much out there to link to anymore!
One interesting thing in some of the non-librarian discussions is the less than thinly veiled contempt many folks have for the non-user-friendliness of our databases and catalogs. And I can definitely see their point: it is pretty cumbersome to search across DBs and retrieving articles takes lots on often non-intuitive clicking. I don't think we need to start posting out resumes or considering a career change but GS will probably push some of these technology issues to the forefront.
I also think GS can be an important tool for Open Access retrieval (Open Access News has lots of GS related posts) and in helping to possibly break some of the stanglehold that journal publishers have over information, especially in the sciences.
One interesting thing in some of the non-librarian discussions is the less than thinly veiled contempt many folks have for the non-user-friendliness of our databases and catalogs. And I can definitely see their point: it is pretty cumbersome to search across DBs and retrieving articles takes lots on often non-intuitive clicking. I don't think we need to start posting out resumes or considering a career change but GS will probably push some of these technology issues to the forefront.
I also think GS can be an important tool for Open Access retrieval (Open Access News has lots of GS related posts) and in helping to possibly break some of the stanglehold that journal publishers have over information, especially in the sciences.
posted by David at 1:29 PM
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