Medscape

Google Scholar Versus PubMed in Locating Primary Literature to Answer Drug-Related Questions

BACKGROUND: Google Scholar linked more visitors to biomedical journal Web sites than did PubMed after the database's initial release; however, its usefulness in locating primary literature articles is ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Google Unveils a Search Engine Focused on Scholarly Materials

Google Scholar searches the full text of most of the documents it indexes, but in some cases the results point to articles or texts that can be seen only for a fee or with a subscription. In most such ...
ZDNet

5 ways to use Google Scholar to supercharge your research efforts

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Google Scholar, a search tool for scholarly works developed in 2004. The passion project started with just two researchers at the helm and transformed into a web ...
Medscape

Google Scholar Versus PubMed in Locating Primary Literature to Answer Drug-Related Questions

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2009;43(3):478-484. The primary literature articles referenced in each Drug Information Rounds article were identified, targeted, and searched in Google Scholar and ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Google Unveils a Search Engine Focused on Scholarly Materials

In a move that some scholars see as a boon for research and others say could help make libraries obsolete, Google on Thursday unveiled a search engine that focuses on academic materials. The new tool, ...