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Google Scholar: Not Ready for Prime Time?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the is-the-first-version-of-anything-ready dept.

reptilicus writes "The Thomson Gale publishing group has put together a comprehensive review of Google Scholar, and they find it highly lacking compared with similar offerings from Highwire Press, Scopus, and The Web of Science. Will Google's overhyped offerings drive these superior services out of the market?"

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  1. JESUS CHRIST OF COURSE by hoborocks · · Score: 5, Informative

    CLICK the links on the side, the "related links". You'll see that "The Web of Science" and "Scopus" are PART of thomson gale.

    Can we really be that surprised they said that google isn't that good?!

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  2. Of course they trash their competition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    As the article mentions, there are only two other multidisciplinary academic databases, web of science and scopus. Both are expensive. Google is free. I have access to (and use) web of science, and google blows it out of the water in terms of speed and user interface. Its database is generally pretty good too.

    Not bad for free.