Year: 2006
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The paper discusses the new scientific search service Google Scholar. This search engine, which is intended for searching exclusively scholarly documents, will be described with its most important functionality and then tested empirically. The study is based on queries against different journal lists: international journals from Thomson Scientific, Open Access journals from the DOAJ list and journals of the German social sciences literature database SOLIS as well as the analysis of result data from Google Scholar. The study shows deficiencies in the coverage and up-to-dateness of the Google Scholar index. Furthermore, the study points up which web servers are the most important data providers for this search service and which information sources are represented. We conclude that Google Scholar has some interesting potentials (e.g. citation analysis, free materials) but can not be seen as a substitute for the use of special literature databases due to a couple of weaknesses (e.g. transparency).
Authors: Philipp Mayr, Anne‐Kathrin Walter
Language: German
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1510965466