Google Scholar and Google Books Meg Atwater-Singer UE Emeriti Presentation October 1, 2007.

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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!”