Advanced Searching

IS530

Fall 2009

Dr. Dania Bilal

Google Scholar

• Scholarly literature• Many disciplines and sources:

– peer-reviewed publications• Journal and conference proceedings

– Theses– Books

• Sources of literature: academic publishers, professional societies, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Google ScholarRanking

• Sorting results – Weighs the full text of each article, the author,

the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature.

– The most relevant results will always appear on the first page.

• Source: Google Scholar

Google Scholar

• Google’s team works with publishers and index publications from all research disciplines.

• Libraries that have holdings listed in OCLC's Open WorldCat can participate in Google’s Library Links program.– Connects users to nearby libraries holding

certain book(s).– Viewing holding libraries is achieved through

clicking on the link “Library Search”

Searching Google Scholar

• Basic interface– Looks exactly like Google’s basic interface– An author’s name is best way to search

• Searched in different ways. Examples:– bilal dania– “bilal dania”– “dania bilal”– dania bilal

• Results show the most cited publication first.

Sample Search Results

Google Scholar

• Result has citation and summary

• Bilal’s first citation summary followed by:

• Cited by 198 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 6 versions

• Cited by (no. of times a publication has been cited).

• BL Direct= British Library Direct

Google Scholar Advanced Search

Google Scholar Preferences(partial screen shot)

Browsing Google: The Directory

More Google Options

• Google directory is found at

http://www.google.com/dirhp?hl=en

• More Google options and products found at

http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

Search Refinement in Databases

• Selected Dialog databases – Demo using various search logic and

refinement techniques

• Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) databases– Gale Databases– Gale Virtual Reference Library