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

2 GB & GS Background How search works Impact on libraries

3 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

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5 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 http://books.google.com/googlebooks/vision.html

6 Google Library Project December 2004 Google announced first Library Partners –Harvard –University of Michigan –New York Public Library –Oxford –Stanford

7 Google Library Project Partners –Cornell –Princeton –University of California –Ghent University (Belgium) –Keio University (Japan) 18 partners as of 9/28/07

8 GB + WorldCat 53.3 million items in WorldCat 10% actually exposed by Google Subject Headings ILL Services

9 Google Books Not archival quality –OK—missing content –OK—skipped pages –OK—<100% OCR http://www.librarian.net/stax/1652/google-book-search-info-from-the-source/

10 Default Results View

11 Cover View

12 Limited Preview

13 Book Result Default

14 More About This Book

15 Previewing Limited View Books

16 Find in a Library

17 Advanced Searching

18 Full View/More About…

19 Book from Library Project

20 Book from Library Project/More

21 GB for Fun Do a search for yourself

22 GB Impact on Libraries Full text books Popular finding tool Increased use of collection

23 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

24 TITLE

25 AUTHOR

26 PUBLICATION INFO

27 How many other documents in Scholar cite this one Cited by

28 A list of references to other documents published by the same author(s) Also finds similar documents Related Articles

29 Web Search Launches a standard Google search using keywords from title

30 BL Direct British Library document delivery of journal articles for at least $15

31 Books

32 Library Search Code for “Find in a Library” aka Open WorldCat

33 GS – What do we really have? Citations for Books, Articles, Conference Proceedings, etc. Strong on science Who knows?

34 Trouble with GS Scholarly – who’s definition Secrecy surrounding: –How GS searches Really all of Google –Title list

35 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!”


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