Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Introducing ... Google Scholar!

Roxana said on her blog,
"Maybe (I don't know if they already do) but they should have a way to go and search and only get information that is acredited. Instead of getting a huge long list and half the stuff is junk"

I responded that just last week a new search engine was released that may do just what Roxana wants it to do -- or at least somewhat. It's called Google Scholar, and it allows students for free to search for research articles and scholarly publications available on the internet. I love it, but my only concern is that there are a lot of good, reliable sources of information on the internet that are not research journal-based. So those probably won't show up in Google Scholar. But it's at least another useful resource.

Check it out at scholar.google.com