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Googling For Academic Medical Research
Google has announced and is online (beta version) with an academic search engine called "Google Scholar" - which "enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."
http://scholar.google.com
About Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html
Google Scholar FAQs
http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html#faq
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Pubmed Pet Peeves
Suggestions for the Pubmed developers: 1) Assign a unique author ID so that you can pull up all publications for a given individual as opposed to all individuals who happen to have the same name. 2) Ability to export references to Bibtex format. (Google...
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Google Scholar & You
Here are answers to some Frequently Asked Questions about Google Scholar. I often get asked what I think about Google Scholar, so I wrote a post on my library's blog in response -- and have referred several students to it. I figured it was worth sharing...
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Two Interesting Blog Posts
Two great posts yesterday: Dutch librarian Wouter Gerritsma posted about a Swedish usability research project comparing students' search behaviour for information with Google Scholar and Metalib on his blog (http://wowter.net/2007/11/14/students-expectation-of-databases/)....
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Citation Tracking
Roy Tennant's excellent library literature abstracting service Current Cites points to an interesting short article about citation tracking: Bakkalbasi, Nisa, Kathleen Bauer, and Janis Glover, et. al. "Three Options for Citation Tracking: Google...
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Response To O'reilly
My favorite dj, Vin Scelsa, has a letter to the editor in the Oct 1, 2005 New York Times in response to Tim O'Reilly's Sept 28 op-ed piece about authors & Google Scholar. Vin compares his work of playing digital music (which he does for WFUV...
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