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Google last week released “Google Scholar,” a search engine that allows users to search millions of papers, theses and other academic resources, with the same relevance ranking technology that made the original search engine so popular...
...famous words, “Stand on the shoulder of giants,” a slogan aimed to reflect the search engine’s reliance on previously published material to generate search results, according to the press release. Instead of searching webpages all over the internet, Scholar analyzes papers, theses, technical reports and abstracts, ranking them according to author, publication, and frequency of citation...
Cheryl M. LaGuardia, head of instructional services for Harvard College libraries and an avid Google user, said that Scholar has the potential for success, but she sees some limitations...
...also said that in her testing of Scholar so far, she has found the interface more cluttered and not as straightforward as the regular Google search. She also noted that she has found science searches more productive than searches for humanities topics...
...friends-—they ask ‘What’s your research about?’ and I say I get fish drunk,” Williamson says. “It’s half true.”Meet Williamson—the scholar-athlete of the NCAA’s dreams and Harvard football’s starting strong safety for the 2004 season...