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missbernie

missbernie

HOPEFUL

Ypsilanti, MI

NOV 18, 2004 02:43 PM

With all of its innovations, Google has come up with yet another. It will now allow users to search scholarly research, separating it from the other fluff on the web.

Although Google already had been indexing the reams of academic research online, the company hadn't been able to separate the scholarly content from commercial Web sites.

By focusing on the citations contained in academic papers, Google also engineered its new system to provide a list of potentially helpful material available at libraries and other offline sources.


But will this include scholarly journals as well? Either way, long gone are the days of the card catalog and the encylopedia. This is a godsend to all of us college students who have 10+ page papers to whip together.

It will also allow scholars who are published to get their research out to more who are interested in a certain topic. However, it might make citation even more of a bitch than it already is.

Now I can't wait to write a paper! This would have been great last fall semester... Try it!

Erin

Erin

SUICIDEGIRL

Oregon, USA

NOV 18, 2004 03:20 PM

hooray, this will make it much easier to be a geeky hypochondriac.

freyja

freyja

I'm lost
August 2002

NOV 18, 2004 03:21 PM

also:
http:/www.google.com/unclesam will search only government sites

♥ google ♥

DarrenDragon

DarrenDragon

Owensboro, KY
December 2002

NOV 18, 2004 03:33 PM

yay, google. now if only i was still in college i might have a use for this. boo, google, for not coming up with this 5 years ago when i needed it.

story of my fucking life.



[Edited on Nov 18, 2004 by skinwalker]

llouys

llouys

Brazil
August 2003

NOV 18, 2004 03:35 PM

♥ google ♥ indeed...

citeseer is such a pain...

waldo

waldo

I'm lost
June 2004

NOV 18, 2004 03:43 PM

Nice. Would've made my life a lot easier over the last three months.

Drek77

Drek77

Harwinton, CT
March 2003

NOV 18, 2004 03:48 PM

I like my college's system that has a list of almost every scientific journal, book or paper ever written. All you have to do is type in a topic such as "The application of Theoretical Ecology to Behavoral Ecology", and it will list all the material available.

llouys

llouys

Brazil
August 2003

NOV 18, 2004 04:11 PM

Actually grr it seems to be all that behind-the-firewall ingenta and blackwell and million-dollar-a-year subscription-only journal stuff.

Boo for being a loser who is not in college.

Feh.

s5

s5

STAFF

San Francisco, CA

NOV 18, 2004 04:12 PM

love google love

chuckgelman

chuckgelman

New York, NY
July 2004

NOV 18, 2004 04:17 PM

i really do loove google love love

SignalNoise

SignalNoise

USA
February 2004

NOV 18, 2004 04:41 PM

ahhh...... i can't even describe how cool this is....

Merry

Merry

Saint John, NB
December 2002

NOV 18, 2004 04:48 PM

love love love love

*pees self with excitement*

Edited to add a bunch more love love love love after actually doing searches relevant to some papers I'm working on!

[Edited on Nov 18, 2004 8:55PM]

dickie

dickie

Providence, RI
June 2004

NOV 18, 2004 05:56 PM

This is wonderful.

troglodyte

troglodyte

Victoria, BC
May 2003

NOV 18, 2004 06:01 PM

Thank. God.

fenris23

fenris23

Vancouver, BC
February 2003

NOV 18, 2004 06:01 PM

Best Google service yet.

Attack_Macaque

Attack_Macaque

Mesquite, TX
September 2004

NOV 18, 2004 06:12 PM

Well, that just cinches it. Google, thou art god... love kiss love

JohnClement

JohnClement

Silver Spring, MD
January 2004

NOV 18, 2004 06:19 PM

Should make my job easier. smile

lamdalamdalamda

lamdalamdalamda

Chicago, IL
February 2003

NOV 18, 2004 07:35 PM

i am very excited

ctishman

ctishman

Eugene, OR
June 2003

NOV 18, 2004 11:27 PM

Oh god, forget five years ago, I needed this last week, when I was doing a quick 1000-worder on message boards, and couldn't find a citable source to save my life. I search now, and there's about 500 relevant results. Of course, my paper's already turned in.

Nonetheless, love Google love

sidewalker123

sidewalker123

Kalamazoo, MI
January 2004

NOV 18, 2004 11:56 PM

Can I assume that dumbasses like m'self are allowed to use it too?

thelost

thelost

United Kingdom
June 2004

NOV 19, 2004 12:53 PM

i for one welcome our new google overlords

ImaginaryRobot

ImaginaryRobot

Miami, FL
November 2004

NOV 19, 2004 01:09 PM

skinwalker said:
yay, google. now if only i was still in college i might have a use for this. boo, google, for not coming up with this 5 years ago when i needed it.



hahah google was barely google 5 years ago!

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

NOV 20, 2004 01:36 PM

I hope Google has armed guards because if it breaks the internet will be fuxored. At least, it will be for me.

Wren

Wren

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

NOV 20, 2004 01:38 PM

I think it makes it painfully obvious how geeky I am that I'm all excited about this, and that the first thing I looked up was "cadaver research". Hooray for Google. biggrin

faustroll

faustroll

Savannah, GA
January 2003

NOV 20, 2004 01:57 PM

This is the coolest thing ever! I'm biased, but only because i'm in Grad School, working on my MLS and am in the process of writing a paper on Library Technical services. The best prt? It ranks papers by citation! It's like an instant bibliography! Wow. i just had a Library flavored geekasm.

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