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Google Launches Scholar Beta

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the google-this-google-that dept.

Jaidev writes "'Stand on the shoulders of giants' is what Google claims its new service allows you to do. Google Scholar 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."

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  1. Research edge by fugginsuds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does it not bother anyone but me that this will give Google a monstrous research edge, as they will be able to determine trend data, as well as searches that have no results, meaning items that have not yet been researched or published. I find this extremely disturbing that a company can do that.

  2. Re:Neat. by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Many wiki articles cite the sources they use. Why not refer to the original instead of wiki? Often those sources will give you much more information than the wiki.

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  3. Proper citations by roffe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And when is scholar.google.com going to support exporting to BibTeX-style citations?

    Huh? Huh? Huh!?

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