Hi Colleagues,

I agree with Mr. Dash. Scholars are looking for a "Search Place", where they
can search for all information. Google Scholar is negotiating with Journal
Publishers for getting into their server, and harvest their ToC, Abstract and
reference parts of each article. When GS comes out with its full version, any
one can search for Scholarly literature, from the vast array of Free and Paid
journals, at the same time and at single place. The beauty of its Citation
search adds GS's expected acceptance among Academia. Still it in its Beta.
Remember that, we do not have a free service sofar, to do so.

After retrieving the bibliographic Results, next step is to look for fulltext.
If it is an Open Access journal, we can freely download them. What will happen
to Paid articles. Here again, Google Scholar is started Document Delivery, and
they already made arrangements with british library. See the press release at
http://www.bl.uk/news/2006/pressrelease20060302.html. They will be collaborating
with other Doc Delivery systems in near future.

What will be its effect on Libraries? We will be getting a new free service,
to which we used to pay huge amounts to Online Database providers. In near
future these people will be forced to collaborate with GS, and Libraries will be
benefited in great deal.

We should understand that, the world wide resistance to Google from librarians
are coming down, after their major projects like Google Scholar. As long as it
is FREE, we will be benfitted. As librarians, our job is to support it, and
lobby for its "FREE" status for ever. GS will be more than, what we have today.

Vijayakumar J. K


"Sh. Jitendra N. Dash" <jn_dash@...> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,

I found the following write-up by Mr. Singh is intersting but he avoided the
strong point of Google Scholar(GS), free citation retrieval search engine.
Presently there is no search engine which provides citation(s) to scholarly
papers freely. I found our scientists group is interested with GS,also I found
citations are reliable.GS provides link to PubMed, free/open access journal,
pay-based journals, books etc. Its features are discussed in peer reviewed
journals like Nature.So,if GS will provide link only to free/open access
journals papers then how users will come to know there citations in the journals
which are subscribed in our libraries. Proper search technique retrieves
relevant results.
But one of the nagative points is GS was updated first time after six month of
its initial launch (Nov, 2004) which is discussed. We may hope its present beta
version may be evolved to a relevant search engine for scholars, specially in
the areas where scholars are struggling for resources.
Regards,
JN Dash
NII, New Delhi

Sukhdev Singh wrote:
This morning was frustating with Google Scholar.

I just wanted to get hold of some scholary literature on "Methods for
Benchmarking Organisations". So, opened up Google Scholar
and fired the first term - "benchmarking".
Good - 149,000 hits to good quality looking literature. So, started
clicking by one by one to see the hits. But, what is this?!! Almost
every click was asking me to pay somewhere 20 to 40 Dollars to have
the access to full text. Obiously - this is the locked up knowledge
for me. What is the use of these wonderful hits to high quality
literature when I can not view them.

Next I opened up Open J-Gate and fired
the same term "benchmarking". Had to wait for the results. Ultimately
got the result - 216 hits. This served my purpose. Not that these
pointed to high quality papers. But I got what I wanted in return for
what I could afford to pay for. No wasting of time in clicking and
waiting to learn that I can't afford to buy the stuff.

Later found that OAIster
gave 1674 hits for the same term. But then, all Open/Free Access
literature may not be OAI compliant.

Why can't Google creates a service for just Open/Free Access Scholary
Literature and name it as OpenScholar?. Its better technology can help
small mortals like me.

Sukhdev Singh, NIC.
http://openmed.nic.in


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