Search Engines for Tomorrow's Scholars, Part Two

摘要

This two-part column considers how well some of today's search tools support scholars' work. The first part of the column, in JWL 5.4, reviewed Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search (Fagan 2011) using a modified version of Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau, and Carrier M. Pirmann's framework (2009). Microsoft Academic Search is a strong contender when considering the interface needs of scholars, but unlike Google Scholar, it is not yet linked in to library resources. Google Scholar recently expanded its Scholar Citations service (Cordell 2011) but contains little support for the activities of browsing, assessing, and translating. Neither tool supports gathering or organizing results.