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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. Anything else? by QMO · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Has Google driven anyone out of the market?

    (I really don't know)

    If yes, did they actually have a truly better product/service?

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  2. Re:It's one thing to have all the information by Mac+Degger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You're right. They should have scholar.google.com locked up in a testlab, accessible only to google employees. until they iron out ALL the bugs. That's far better than to let all acedemia use it right now for the benefit they could recieve using it.

    As should be obvious, I think you're nuts. I've used google scholar for projects at uni for a while now, and it has been quite usefull. It could be better (direct display of homonyms...you never know what jargon scientists will use for the same bloody phenomenon), but it's usefull in it's current state. I'm far happier being able to use it now. If they want to call it beta, fine for them.

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