Google Scholar and Google Books Meg Atwater-Singer UE Emeriti Presentation October 1, 2007
GB & GS Background How search works Impact on libraries
Google Print Started Dec 2003 – unveiled Oct 2004 Snippet, Sample Pages or Full Book View Books from publishers, authors & libraries Must log in! Track page views for copyright compliance Connects you with searches, views, books
Google Books We see a world where all books are online and searchable*. * Google Book Search is a book-finding tool, not a book-reading tool. We only show the full pages of books if the copyright holders have given us permission or if the book is out of copyright. Otherwise we show bibliographic information about the book plus at most a few sentences of your search term in context.few sentences
Google Library Project December 2004 Google announced first Library Partners –Harvard –University of Michigan –New York Public Library –Oxford –Stanford
Google Library Project Partners –Cornell –Princeton –University of California –Ghent University (Belgium) –Keio University (Japan) 18 partners as of 9/28/07
GB + WorldCat 53.3 million items in WorldCat 10% actually exposed by Google Subject Headings ILL Services
Google Books Not archival quality –OK—missing content –OK—skipped pages –OK—<100% OCR
Default Results View
Cover View
Limited Preview
Book Result Default
More About This Book
Previewing Limited View Books
Find in a Library
Advanced Searching
Full View/More About…
Book from Library Project
Book from Library Project/More
GB for Fun Do a search for yourself
GB Impact on Libraries Full text books Popular finding tool Increased use of collection
Google Scholar Unveiled Nov 2004 Announced Feb 2006 integration with OpenWorldCat Info from: –Open Access Publications (BioMed Central) –Arrangements to Crawl Publisher Website –Ingenta TOC
TITLE
AUTHOR
PUBLICATION INFO
How many other documents in Scholar cite this one Cited by
A list of references to other documents published by the same author(s) Also finds similar documents Related Articles
Web Search Launches a standard Google search using keywords from title
BL Direct British Library document delivery of journal articles for at least $15
Books
Library Search Code for “Find in a Library” aka Open WorldCat
GS – What do we really have? Citations for Books, Articles, Conference Proceedings, etc. Strong on science Who knows?
Trouble with GS Scholarly – who’s definition Secrecy surrounding: –How GS searches Really all of Google –Title list
GS Impact on Libraries No definitive list of sources in GS Lazy search skills –No subject thesauri No replacement for subject specific indexes “There’s nothing on my topic!”