Academic search engines: librarian's friend, researcher's delight

Chakravarty, Rupak and Randhawa, Sukhwinder Academic search engines: librarian's friend, researcher's delight., 2006 . In Planner 2006 : Digital Preservation, Management and Access to Information in the Twenty First Century, Aizawl (India), 9-10 November 2006. [Conference paper]

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Search engines are about excitement, optimism, hope and enrichment. Search engines are also about despair and disappointment. A researcher while using search engines for resource discovery might have experienced one or the other sentiments. One may say that user satisfaction depends much upon the search strategies deployed by the user. But at the same time its also depends upon the quality of search engine used for information retrieval. Today, there are many search engines used for resource discovery. They display the results of the searches made in readily-comprehensible manner with lots of customization possibilities including refining and sorting. This paper is an attempt to analyze qualitatively and quantitatively the three most used and popular search engines for academic resource discovery: Google Scholar, Scirus and Windows Live Academic.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	Google Scholar, Scirus, Windows Live Academic, invisible web, search engine
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BD. Information society.
Depositing user:	Sukhwinder Randhawa
Date deposited:	12 Jan 2009
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:13
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/12721

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