LIB 1015–Fall 2011–Prof. Francoeur

Sources

Chillingworth, Mark. “Google Unveils Beta Scholar.” Information World Review 208 (2004): 1. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

“Google Launches Google Scholar.” Advanced Technology Libraries 33.12 (2004): 1, 11. Library Lit & Inf Full Text. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Miller, William, and Rita M. Pellen. Libraries and Google. Binghamton, NY, USA: Haworth Information Press, 2005. Print.

Malcolm, Shannon L. The Next Big Thing?: Google Scholar and Legal Scholarship. , 2005. Print. WorldCat.

• ‎”Google Introduces New Tool for Scholarly Research.” Associated Press [Mountain View] 18 Nov. 2004. . Web. 9 Nov. 2011.
• Golderman, Gail M., and Bruce Connolly. “Between the Book Covers: Going Beyond OPAC Keyword Searching with the Deep Linking Capabilities of Google Scholar and Google Book Search.” EBSCOhost – World’s Foremost Premium Research Database Service. MasterFILE Premier, 2004. Web. 09 Nov. 2011.
• “Google Launches Google Scholar.” Advanced Technology Libraries 33.12 (2004): 1, 11. Library Lit & Inf Full Text. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.
• Networking Y Comunidades En La Web Social. Tres Proyectos Para Mejorar La Comunicación. Universidad del País Vasco, 2009. Internet resource.
  

UCLA Library. “Flow of Information.”

In-class activity

Write a blog post in which you cite the earliest example you can find of a book and of different kinds of articles that talk primarily about Google Scholar. The items you will want to find will be those that focus on Google Scholar, not just mention it in passing. You’ll need to find one of each of these:

• Newspaper article. Use Factiva to search.
• Magazine article. Use MasterFILE Premier to search.
• Journal article. Use Library Literature and Information Science Full Text to search.
• Book. Use WorldCat to search.

Make sure that you use MLA citation style when you cite your sources in your blog post. Here are some guides to MLA citation that I find useful:

• Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide
• Research and Documentation Online

Tips

• You may want to figure out early on when Google Scholar was launched as a service by Google. That will give you some perspective as you search.
• When you run your searches in these tools, look for ways to sort your search results by date of publication (oldest articles first).