Google Scholar beta

In addition to Gmail, Google is beta-testing a new search site, Google Scholar. I’ve dinked around with it a bit, and I’m finding that it is distinctively different from Google or any other search engine I’ve used. GS gives you a large universe of scholarly articles and papers written on a given topic. Here’s what GScholar says about itself –

“Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. This means your search results may include citations of older works and seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline publications.”

Could be of great help on research for a lot of us out here.

Give it a try  <==  click there.

Good blog on GS by Robin Good <== click there.

Comments

[Kim Ayers]

I am sorry to bother you, this is the stranges letter or e mail I have ever written. I will get down to it , maybe,... Aparently there are several Chris Busch's in Norht America.I was married to Christogher Alexander Busch in 1990 and had one child in 1991 we were married in On Canada and moved to Victoria B.C. Canada,

[Kim Ayers]

Further to : moved to Victoria B.C. Canada//To make a long story short,Chris and I divorced before my son was 4 and when he was 5 and a half I moved back to my home town of Sarnia Ontario to be with my illing mother , there was some contact by phone and mail with both Chris's mother and he himself for a coulple of years.........then nothing .....my son is 15 now and in grade nine ;he is a very great kid . He just came back from a school trip with the music department with Scits high school, he had the time of his life at the Rock @ Roll Hall of Fame, a Symphony and a day screaming @ Cedar Point (Sandusky Ohio). I thought I moved on a long time ago ,but to my suprise I wonder WHo, Where , What @ Why ,my only real expression of the situation is the man must be dead? I think I am more confussed about it than he is ,Definitly on the verge of insanity , writing a story to a total stranger who happens to have the same name as my son's fahter.