Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource, Third Edition

CHAPTER 12 Searching for Scholarly Information

In This Chapter

• How Google Scholar Works

• Understanding Google Scholar Search Results

• Searching Google Scholar

• Linking to Information at Your Library

• Expanding Google Scholar

• The Bottom Line

As great as Google is for the average Internet user, it can also be a librarian’s worst nightmare. Many students and researchers are abandoning bricks-and-mortar libraries (as well as proprietary online research services) in favor of Google’s free online searches. Almost any piece of information, it seems, can be found with a standard Google web search.

Or can it?

Google’s web search engine indexes only that part of the Internet that is accessible to the general public. It doesn’t access the ...