Archive for the ‘google scholar’ Category


Our hidden digital libraries

Two of my very talented colleagues, Kat Hagedorn and Josh Santelli, just published a nice piece in D-Lib entitled “Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs.” Kat and Josh and I have discussed this problem off and on, stimulated in part by our frustrations in getting the OAI data collected by OAIster into search services [...]


Metasearch vs. Google Scholar

What the world needs now is not another metasearch engine. Mind you, having more and better and even free metasearch engines is a good thing, but there are already many metasearch engines, each with different strengths and weaknesses, and even some that are free and open source (e.g., see Oregon State’s LibraryFind). Metasearch [...]