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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. Apple by nicklott · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I think the real question here is has Apple done this much better since December 1892 in some obscure app who's name is prefixed with i-?

    Cos if not, I (and I think I speak for the majority here), don't want to know.

  2. Nice Double Standards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    from the is-the-first-version-of-anything-ready dept.>{? So when it's Google or anybody else's first version, slashdot editors and readers gives them the kid gloves treatment.

    When Microsoft's first offerings are out, relentless bashing begins, and continues even years after the later revisions completely surpress them and their competitor's latest.

    Yet more hypocrisy from the peanut gallery here.