Comments on: Scratch one up for Google Scholar http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/scratch-one-up-for-google-scholar/ Teaching and Learning in a Net-Centric World Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:20:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: steve bingham's blog · books 2: itch & scratch http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/scratch-one-up-for-google-scholar/comment-page-1/#comment-1379 steve bingham's blog · books 2: itch & scratch Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:38:22 +0000 http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/scratch-one-up-for-google-scholar/#comment-1379 [...] recent University of Toronto study compared Google Scholar with a number of established university library systems; they measured [...] [...] recent University of Toronto study compared Google Scholar with a number of established university library systems; they measured [...]

]]> By: Stephen http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/scratch-one-up-for-google-scholar/comment-page-1/#comment-1356 Stephen Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:48:36 +0000 http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/scratch-one-up-for-google-scholar/#comment-1356 I see my search strategy (above) no longer works--strangely the article seems now to be invisible to Google's bots--despite it still existing online. Here's the full URL: http://gateway.uvic.ca/blogs/refdesk/archives/google_scholar.pdf I see my search strategy (above) no longer works–strangely the article seems now to be invisible to Google’s bots–despite it still existing online. Here’s the full URL: http://gateway.uvic.ca/blogs/refdesk/archives/google_scholar.pdf

]]> By: Stephen http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/scratch-one-up-for-google-scholar/comment-page-1/#comment-1354 Stephen Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:32:35 +0000 http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/scratch-one-up-for-google-scholar/#comment-1354 Often a Scholar search ends at a publisher's website with an invitation to remove your credit card from your wallet, but sometimes you get lucky... A Scholar search for "A preliminary assessment of Google Scholar as a source of EAP students’ research materials" will find the article citation, but instead of clicking on the title, choose "Web Search". In the resulting search box refine your search by adding "filetype:pdf" click search and choose the second result. Voilà! Not quite open access, but the next best thing--at least until the publisher requests its removal. Often a Scholar search ends at a publisher’s website with an invitation to remove your credit card from your wallet, but sometimes you get lucky…

A Scholar search for “A preliminary assessment of Google Scholar as a source of EAP students’ research materials” will find the article citation, but instead of clicking on the title, choose “Web Search”.

In the resulting search box refine your search by adding “filetype:pdf” click search and choose the second result. Voilà! Not quite open access, but the next best thing–at least until the publisher requests its removal.

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