Google Scholar: A Tool to Search Scholarly Information on the Web
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2006-11-09
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INFLIBNET Centre
Abstract
Google Scholar is the scholarly search tool of the world’s largest and most powerful
search engine, Google. It enables the users to search for scholarly literature including
peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from
all broad areas of research. Google Scholar gets its information directly from publishers
and by crawling the Web for scholarly content. Following a descriptive method of study,
the paper provides a detail history and development timeline of Google and Google
Scholar. Discusses in detail the features, search strategies, citation indexing values of
Google Scholar.
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Google; Google Scholar, Citation Indexing, Search strategies, Search engines