Google Scholar and the UML.ppt

Google Scholar and the UML UML Reference Forum – April 2006 Outline History What Is Google Scholar? Google Scholar and Searching Pros Cons Satisficing Quoting Lorcan Dempsey Other Libraries and Google Scholar Discussion History October 2004: Google launches Google Scholar February 6, 2005: Google Scholar approaches UML with invitation to take part in pilot project: Hi Norma,I am a developer with Google Scholar. We provide search over scholarly content - journal articles, technical reports, books, etc. Your son Paul gave me your address. Collections committee investigating Google Scholar for metasearch. Google Scholar invitation dovetailed nicely. Task Force on UML Google Scholar: Allison Erhardt; Lisa O’Hara; Elizabeth Serhal; Jared Whiklo What is Google Scholar? What is Google Scholar? “Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.” “Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature. The most relevant results will always appear on the first page.” /scholar/about.html Quotes from Google Scholar’s Principal Engineer Dr. Anurag Acharya Index has grown significantly since November 2004, but actual index size cannot be disclosed “We cannot share update information, but our long-term goal is to update every day.” Dec., 2005 “over 500 libraries are participating in the program from all over the world; more are joining every week.” “click through rate for libraries participating in the Library Links pr