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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar is a search engine based tool that allows users to search the Internet for ‘scholarly literature’. Common searches here include:
- Books
- Papers
- Theses
- Articles and abstracts
- Journals
The literature that a search may find here will come from a variety of online sources. It may, for example, come from university sites, publishers, research organisations and libraries. The slogan that set up this tool was ‘Stand on the Shoulders of Giants’.
As a market-leading search engine specialist Google has applied special ranking techniques to its Scholar area. Here, literature is ranked in various ways to ensure the accuracy of search results and factors like authorship, publication method and citations will play a part in where a paper or a book appears in the search engine results on a Scholar search.
The Google Scholar toolbar can also be added to a user’s website if it would be useful for them to allow their website visitors access to this search tool. Google also have a specific Library Links program to encourage libraries to participate in the Scholar initiative. The company will also work with scholastic and educational publishers to get permission to crawl their databases and to use their literature within Scholar.
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