google scholar and the academic web

Google ScholarGetting the most from search,

My Citations and Metrics

James Bisset james.bisset@durham.ac.ukAcademic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)

Session outline- Effective searching for Google- Google Scholar (Tips & Tools)- Google Scholar (My Citations,

Metrics)- Other academic sources

Part 1 Effective Searching

(Getting the most out of Google)

Intelligent Web Searching

• What are you looking for?– Breadth or precision– Single document or comprehensive

coverage

• How are you searching?– Targeted searching

• AND is assumed, stopwords are ignored - duty of care = duty AND care

• OR, for synonyms• “phrase”, -not, intitle:, site:.ac.uk,

– Evaluate your results

Getting the most out of Google

Getting the most from Google

How to search effectively:Tsunami defences assumed ‘AND’ returns results with both termsProperty –intellectual excludes all results that include ‘intellectual’Butterfly OR lepidoptera searches for either of your search terms“early warning system” returns results with exact phrase

Getting the most from Google

How to search effectively:intitle:endochronology returns results with term in document titlesite:.gov.uk only returns results from specific site/domain1562..1598 returns results within a range of dates/prices/measurements"Pay the * wage“ wildcard to pick out unknown terms in a phrase~ghosts returns related terms, eg paranormal, haunted

Part 2

Google Scholar

Google Scholar• Scholarly literature

• Articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions

• Advanced features

Citations, related articles, alerts, set up ConneXions off campus, links to Endnote downloads

Google Scholar

DemoGoogle Scholar

- settings, citations, versions & alerts

Advantages over library databases

• Broader range of resource types e.g. books, journal articles, theses

• Information from range of sources e.g. databases, publishers, OA repositories• Simple to search

Disadvantages• Too many results(?)

• Less quality control

• Coverage: Doesn’t index all publisher content

• Inconsistent level of bibliographic information

• Some non-academic document types e.g. handbooks

• Less developed search options and reduced ability to limit searches

Hands-on

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• Link to Google Scholar• Set up preferences• Search using advanced search

screen• Explore advanced options e.g.

alerts• How does it compare with library

databases you use?

Part 3 Google

Scholar – My Citations

Google Scholar• Track citations to your publications – Check who is citing your publications. Graph

your citations over time. Compute citation metrics.

• View publications by colleagues – Keep up with their work. See their citation

metrics.

• Appear in Google Scholar search results – Create a public profile that can appear in

Google Scholar when someone searches for your name.

DemoGoogle Scholar

- My citations- Metrics

http://www.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html

Hands-on

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• Look at metrics of journals in your discipline• Set up a ‘My citations’ account

if you wish (and add publications if you have any)• Continue to search Google

Scholar

Part 4 Other Academic

Sources

The Hidden Web

• Search engines can access only about 16% of the available information on the WWW.

• Many library databases are not indexed by Google Scholar and other search engines.

• If they are, they may not be very visible.

Academic Resources• Books

–Google Books, Project Gutenberg, Universal Library, (Access to full text of previews)–COPAC, WorldCat (Identify books in other

libraries)

• Journal ToCs–ZETOC, JournalTOCs, ticTOCs, My

Favourite Journals ,

Academic Resources

Open Access and repositories

• Institutional: DRO, Durham e-Theses, LSE Online

• Subject specific: ArXiv, RePeC, SSRN, Pubmed

• Format specific: OAPen

• Use OpenDOAR or Google Scholar

Make use of what others are already collecting:-

• ResearchGate – http://www.researchgate.net/ • Piirus - https://www.piirus.com/• CituLike – search at http://www.citeulike.org/• Delicious – search Google ( site:.delicious.com)• Scoop.it – search at http://www.scoop.it/• Twitter – use Tweetdeck, Hootsuite etc.

Social / Academic Resources

Hands-on

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• Explore resources mentioned• Set up a profile on

ResearchGate or Piirus if you wish• Continue to search Google

Scholar

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