Tech Talk: Google Scholar Wednesday, September 25, 2013 MIGUEL 307 Bernadette López-Fitzsimmons Information Services Librarian

AGENDA  WELCOME!  NEW LIBRARY WEB SITE  What is Google Scholar?  What are the different aspects of Google Scholar?  Google Scholar from the NEW LIBRARY WEB SITE  Google Scholar from the OLD LIBRARY WEB SITE  Q&A

NEW LIBRARY WEB SITE  lib.manhattan.edu lib.manhattan.edu

GOOGLE SCHOLAR  Scope  Access  Content  Authorship  Editorial control (content reviewed by professionals)  Indexing (organization & management of controlled vocabulary & other limits by information services specialists)  Reliability & viability

SCOPE: Google Scholar  Subset of the Internet including academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, university web sites  BUT  Cannot decipher which web sites are being searched  Cannot determine how comprehensive the search results are

ACCESS: Google Scholar  Searching is FREE!  BUT  Results contain FREE and FOR Purchase materials  MOST full-text ARE NOT FREE  To find out which journal articles are full test, visit The Library Periodical List  Or, USE Interlibrary LoanInterlibrary Loan

CONTENT: Google Scholar  Articles  Books  Book Chapters  Conference Papers  Court Opinions  BUT  MOST FULL-TEXT IS NOT FREE

AUTHORSHIP: Google Scholar  Journalists  Scholars  Professionals  Other  So….  May or may not have been reviewed by scholars and/or other professionals

EDITORIAL CONTROL: Google Scholar  NO EDITORIAL CONTROL  So…..  SEARCHES ARE CONTROLLED BY a SEARCH ALGORITHM

Indexing: Organization & Management Googe Scholar  No Library Indexing  And…..  DOES NOT USE PUBLISHER OR LIBRARY DATA  Google generates data automatically so it might not be accurate  Limiting done by a search algorithm  Advanced search allows filtering and limiting search results (good!)

Reliability & Viability: Google Scholar  Relatively trustworthy  More reliable than Google  BUT  STILL MUST VERIFY SOURCES  NOT ALL SOURCES ARE SCHOLARLY  NOT ALL CITATIONS ARE ACCURATE  MUST VERIFY Publisher’s, University’s, Individuals’s, web sites, etc.

Google Scholar  NEW WEB SITE:  Lib.manhattan.edu Lib.manhattan.edu  OLD WEB SITE:   Research Databases Research Databases

Contact Information  Bernadette López-Fitzsimmons  Information Services Librarian  (718)  GOOD LUCK! VISIT US IN THE LIBRARY!