Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: If you ask a typical casual information user to name her first or favorite reference source, the answer is likely to be Google, and with good reason: Google' s ease of use and ubiquity have opened up a world of information that formerly was trapped within book covers in libraries.However, when it comes to serious scholarship, can Google provide adequate access to research articles?Or do librarians still need to select specialized abstracting and indexing products and teach researchers how use them?In this installment of "Taking Issues," an academic librarian and a public librarian debate the strengths, weaknesses, and idiosyncrasies of Google Scholar.-Editors
Institutions: Bradley University, University of Oklahoma
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2013214115