November 23, 2004

Where's my stuff?

Have y'all happened to see Google Scholar yet?

The tool is targeted squarely at scientists and academic researchers wanting to find scholarly literature across broad areas of research. It searches a subset of the main Google index, open repositories, and the Web sites of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, and universities.

There is a drawback: many of the indexed journal articles that appear are still only available to subscribers. Some of the journals make their contents publicly available after a year has elapsed, but that does mean that the articles may not contain current data. However, it gives the researcher a starting point.

Most every scientist or academic I'm acquainted with has already checked it out to determine whether his or her work has been included. Alas, my best work has gone unpublished, so it doesn't appear.

Posted by Linkmeister at November 23, 2004 11:26 AM
Comments

My most recent publication doesn't show up. :(

Posted by: Scott at November 25, 2004 08:39 AM