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Google Scholarand the Academic Web
James Bisset ([email protected])Academic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)
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Session outline- Intelligent web searching- Google Scholar (Tips & Tools)- Google Scholar (My Citations)- Academic web- Wider web- Hidden web
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Part 1 Intelligent Web Searching(Getting the most out of
Google)
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Intelligent Web Searching
• What are you looking for?– Breadth or precision– Single document or comprehensive
coverage
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Intelligent Web Searching
• What are you looking for?– Breadth or precision– Single document or comprehensive
coverage
• How are you searching?– Targeted searching• Combining terms = narrow search; AND is
assumed• OR, “phrase”, -not, ˜synonym, intitle:,
site:.ac.uk, date:months
– Evaluating results
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Getting the most out of Google
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... and then 5 minutes later...
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Getting the most from Google
How to search effectively:Tsunami defences assumed ‘AND’ returns results with both termsProperty –intellectual excludes all results that include ‘intellectual’Butterfly OR lepidoptera searches for either of your search terms
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Getting the most from Google
How to search effectively:
“early warning system”
returns results with exact phrase
intitle:endochronology
returns results with term in document title
site:.gov.uk
only returns results from specific site/domain
~ghosts
returns related terms, eg paranormal, haunted
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Part 2
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar• Scholarly literature
• Articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions
• Advanced features
Citations, grouped articles, related articles, alerts, set up ConneXions off campus, links to Endnote downloads
Google Scholar
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DemoGoogle Scholar
- settings, citations, versions & alerts
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Advantages over library databases
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Advantages over library databases
More results
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Advantages over library databases
• Broader range of resource types e.g. books, journal articles, theses
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Advantages over library databases
• Broader range of resource types e.g. books, journal articles, theses
• Information from range of sources e.g. databases, publishers, OA repositories
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Advantages over library databases
• Broader range of resource types e.g. books, journal articles, theses
• Information from range of sources e.g. databases, publishers, OA repositories• Simple to search
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Disadvantages• Too many results(?)
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Disadvantages• Too many results(?)
• Less quality control
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Disadvantages• Too many results(?)
• Less quality control
• Coverage: Doesn’t index all publisher content
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Disadvantages• Too many results(?)
• Less quality control
• Coverage: Doesn’t index all publisher content
• Inconsistent level of bibliographic information
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Disadvantages• Too many results(?)
• Less quality control
• Coverage: Doesn’t index all publisher content
• Inconsistent level of bibliographic information
• Some non-academic document types e.g. Handbooks
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Disadvantages• Too many results(?)
• Less quality control
• Coverage: Doesn’t index all publisher content
• Inconsistent level of bibliographic information
• Some non-academic document types e.g. handbooks
• Less developed search options and reduced ability to limit searches
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Hands-on
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• Link to Google Scholar• Set up preferences• Search using advanced search
screen• Explore advanced options e.g.
alerts• How does it compare with library
databases you use?
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Part 3 Google
Scholar – My Citations
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Google Scholar• Track citations to your publications – Check who is citing your publications. Graph
your citations over time. Compute citation metrics.
• View publications by colleagues – Keep up with their work. See their citation
metrics.
• Appear in Google Scholar search results – Create a public profile that can appear in
Google Scholar when someone searches for your name.
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DemoGoogle Scholar
- My citations- Metrics
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http://www.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html
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Hands-on
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• Look at metrics of journals in your discipline• Set up a ‘My citations’ account
if you wish (and add publications if you have any)• Continue to search Google
Scholar
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Part 3
Academic Web
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Academic Resources• Books
–Google Books, Project Gutenberg, Universal Library, (Access to full text of previews)–COPAC, WorldCat (Identify books in other
libraries)
• Journal ToCs–ZETOC, JournalTOCs, ticTOCs, My
Favourite Journals ,
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Academic Resources
Open Access and repositories
• Institutional: DRO, Durham e-Theses, LSE Online
• Subject specific: ArXiv, RePeC, SSRN, Pubmed
• Use OpenDOAR or Google Scholar
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Make use of what others are already collecting:-
• CituLike – search at http://www.citeulike.org/• Delicious – search Google ( site:.delicious.com)• Scoop.it – search at http://www.scoop.it/• Twitter
Social / Academic Resources
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Hands-on
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Part 4 Wider Web
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Types of Search Engine
• Search engines vs. meta-search engines
Ask, Bing, Google, Yahoo
Vs.
Mamma, Dogpile, Metacrawler
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Part 5 Hidden Web
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The Hidden Web• Search engines can access only
about 16% of the available information on the WWW.
• Many library databases are not indexed by Google Scholar and other search engines.
• If they are, they may not be very visible.
Library web pages
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Image Credits[Slide 53] ‘Vitae®, © 2010 Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) Limited‘ Available at www.vitae.ac.uk/rdf
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