Google Scholarand the Academic Web

James Bisset (james.bisset@durham.ac.uk)Academic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)

Session outline- Intelligent web searching- Google Scholar (Tips & Tools)- Google Scholar (My Citations)- Academic web- Wider web- Hidden web

Part 1 Intelligent Web Searching(Getting the most out of

Google)

Intelligent Web Searching

• What are you looking for?– Breadth or precision– Single document or comprehensive

coverage

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

Getting the most out of Google

... and then 5 minutes later...

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

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

Part 2

Google Scholar

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

DemoGoogle Scholar

- settings, citations, versions & alerts

Advantages over library databases

Advantages over library databases

More results

Advantages over library databases

• Broader range of resource types e.g. books, journal articles, theses

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

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

Disadvantages• Too many results(?)

Disadvantages• Too many results(?)

• Less quality control

Disadvantages• Too many results(?)

• Less quality control

• Coverage: Doesn’t index all publisher content

Disadvantages• Too many results(?)

• Less quality control

• Coverage: Doesn’t index all publisher content

• Inconsistent level of bibliographic information

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

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

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?

Part 3 Google

Scholar – My Citations

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.

DemoGoogle Scholar

- My citations- Metrics

http://www.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html

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

Part 3

Academic Web

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 ,

Academic Resources

Open Access and repositories

• Institutional: DRO, Durham e-Theses, LSE Online

• Subject specific: ArXiv, RePeC, SSRN, Pubmed

• Use OpenDOAR or Google Scholar

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

Hands-on

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Part 4 Wider Web

Types of Search Engine

• Search engines vs. meta-search engines

Ask, Bing, Google, Yahoo

Vs.

Mamma, Dogpile, Metacrawler

Part 5 Hidden Web

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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