How Scholarly is Google Scholar? A Comparison to Library Databases Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4498205, abstract = {Google Scholar was released as a beta product in November of 2004. Since then, Google Scholar has been scrutinized and questioned by many in academia and the library field. Our objectives in undertaking this study were to determine how scholarly Google Scholar is in comparison with traditional library resources and to determine if the scholarliness of materials found in Google Scholar varies across disciplines. We found that Google Scholar is, on average, 17.6\% more scholarly than materials found only in library databases and that there is no statistically significant difference between the scholarliness of materials found in Google Scholar across disciplines.}, author = {Howland, Jared L. and Wright, Thomas C. and Boughan, Rebecca A. and Roberts, Brian C.}, citeulike-article-id = {4498205}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crljournal/preprints/Howland.pdf}, editor = {Association's, American L.}, howpublished = {Presented June 30, 2008 at the American Library Association's Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA}, keywords = {library, web20}, organization = {American Library Association's}, posted-at = {2009-05-09 08:07:07}, priority = {2}, title = {How Scholarly is Google Scholar? A Comparison to Library Databases}, url = {http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crljournal/preprints/Howland.pdf}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4498205 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4498205 N2 - Google Scholar was released as a beta product in November of 2004. Since then, Google Scholar has been scrutinized and questioned by many in academia and the library field. Our objectives in undertaking this study were to determine how scholarly Google Scholar is in comparison with traditional library resources and to determine if the scholarliness of materials found in Google Scholar varies across disciplines. We found that Google Scholar is, on average, 17.6% more scholarly than materials found only in library databases and that there is no statistically significant difference between the scholarliness of materials found in Google Scholar across disciplines. OR - American Library Association’s TI - How Scholarly is Google Scholar? A Comparison to Library Databases KW - library KW - web20 AU - Howland, Jared AU - Wright, Thomas AU - Boughan, Rebecca AU - Roberts, Brian A2 - Association’s, American PY - 2008/// UR - http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crljournal/preprints/Howland.pdf ER -