Companies always claim to be leading in this or pioneering in that. Google Scholar is less boastful, but still says it “provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.” And so Marilyn Christianson, a librarian at Auburn University, put that assertion to the test.
Publishing power Reed Elsevier will have its scholarly journals crawled and indexed by Google, under the terms of the Google Scholar program.
Google posted an interview with its Google Scholar lead engineer, Anurag Acharya.
Google Scholar recently added a "Recent articles" feature that lets you sort papers by ranking them both by a combination of date and citations.
There are geeks and there are nerds, so the Eighties told us (dorks and dweebs, too, but these have yet reach to any type of social prominence). You may have guessed by now that I'm a nerd - I like to study. Google Scholar's new addition, then, will just increase the hours I spend in ancient civilizations -- for another, their time in quarks.