{"id":235,"date":"2014-11-12T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/11\/12\/google-scholar-turns-10\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:28:53","slug":"google-scholar-turns-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/11\/12\/google-scholar-turns-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Scholar turns 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Scholar<\/a>, Google&#8217;s search engine for scholarly material, turns 10 on Monday (Nov 18).&nbsp; It has become a major alternative to commercial library databases in those 10 years, so much so that Langsdale and many other libraries have linked their own holdings to it (<a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/uploads\/libguides\/googlescholar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">see how you can connect UB&#8217;s holdings to Google Scholar<\/a>) or even provided a Google Scholar search widget on their home pages.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-pmbQy9LrWiA\/VGNjMH-kpQI\/AAAAAAAAAIs\/DB2XbandCvo\/s1600\/googleScholar.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-pmbQy9LrWiA\/VGNjMH-kpQI\/AAAAAAAAAIs\/DB2XbandCvo\/s1600\/googleScholar.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"right\">\n<td>image courtesy of Google<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Google Scholar has leveraged Google&#8217;s robust algorithms to its advantage, making it the largest index of scholarly materials, and over the years it has added features for authors to create profiles and track their citations (<a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;authuser=1&amp;gmla=AJsN-F4_p_RLQN3rDv0ZlvrvmMSx6r-vWA7rHR7AAoIAp09eXt1yiWom3c49KtdrMGBQuoTur_KWvUnbmWY-nzsWuiBGGnYPpw&amp;user=M780mWEAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\">see example<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Here at Langsdale, we see the value of GS&#8217; size and search strength and include it in our research recommendations.&nbsp; However, too many students and faculty who don&#8217;t connect GS with our holdings are often stymied at GS because of article costs.&nbsp; Connecting with UB&#8217;s collections allows users to access those materials for free. <\/p>\n<p>The latest issue of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/google-scholar-pioneer-on-search-engine-s-future-1.16269\" target=\"_blank\">Nature<\/a><\/i> has an interesting interview with Google Scholar&#8217;s co-creator and current manager, Anurag Acharya, who describes both the history and future of the engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Scholar, Google&#8217;s search engine for scholarly material, turns 10 on Monday (Nov 18).&nbsp; It has become a major alternative to commercial library databases in those 10 years, so much so that Langsdale and many other libraries have linked their <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/11\/12\/google-scholar-turns-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Google Scholar turns 10<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}