GoogleScholar

GoogleCom has released

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

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ebyblog » Blog Archive » Google Scholar and The Furry Unleashed (via MM from CDL):

So what about the problems people are talking about. From what I can gather some fear for the viability of federated search. As a user of a library (I am not a Librarian) I can say, I hope federated search happens soon and it is built well. I personally hate using the online indexes that my library provides. As a user I think they are a pain to use, look terrible, and don’t give the relevant results I want. I plan on using Google Scholar to find the article I need and then moving to the indexes and library catalog to find a copy of it. Before I would do web searches and try to find sites that sourced some information or the similar.

Openly's OpenURL Referrer:

Perhaps your local library subscribes to an electronic database that carries the article you are interested in. OpenURL Referrer, a new extension for the Firefox web browser, adds a link to GoogleScholar's results page that points to your library's full-text copy of the article.

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