Download or read book Google Scholar and its Competitors written by Ingrid Hsieh-Yee and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Google Scholar and its Competitors introduces information seekers to web search tools that provide access to scholarly resources. It begins with a discussion of scholarly communication trends and their effects on access to scholarly resources in the digital environment. In this context the book examines Google Scholar and its competitors in terms of their databases, features, functionality, and strengths and weaknesses. Web search tools analyzed include major engines such as Google Scholar, Microsoft Live Academic, Yahoo Search, Ask, and specialized search engines, subject databases, aggregators, online catalogs, digital repositories, and subject portals. Because Google Scholar is a highly popular search engine for scholarly resources that has caused much concern in the library community, the book assesses studies of Google Scholar and the library community’s reactions to this tool. It also explores the implications of Google Scholar and its competitors for information seekers and libraries. The book concludes with a discussion of the role of user-generated content in scholarly communication and how such content can be used to facilitate access to scholarly resources. Presents trends in scholarly communication and examines how Web search tools facilitate access to scholarly resources Offers an in-depth analysis of Google Scholar Provides helpful comparisons of Google Scholar and its competitors to help information seekers make effective use of these tools Explores the implications of search tools for scholarly resources for libraries

Download or read book Teaching Google Scholar written by Paige Alfonzo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Google Scholar in your library instructional sessions can increase students’ information and digital literacy skills. Students’ familiarity with Google Scholar’s interface works to the instructor’s advantage and allows more time to address students’ information needs and teach foundational information literacy skills and less time teaching a new database with a less-intuitive database interface. Teaching Google Scholar: A Practical Guide for Librarians will illustrate instructional methods and incorporate step-by-step guides and examples for teaching Google Scholar. It begins with providing you with essential background: What Google Scholar is How to set up Google Scholar using OpenURL How to design Google Scholar instructional sessions How to incorporate active learning activities using Google Scholar After reading it, you will be ready to teach students critical skills including how to: Use specific Google Scholar search operators Incorporate search logic Extract citation data, generate citations, and save citations to Google's My Library and/or a citation management program Use Google Scholar tools- including “cited by,” “alerts,” “library links,” and “library search” Google Scholar is a powerful research tool and will only become more popular in the coming years. Learning how to properly teach students how to utilize this search engine in their research will greatly benefit them in their college career and help promote life-long learning. Google Scholar instruction is a must in today’s modern information literacy classroom.

Download or read book Academic Search Engines written by Jose Luis Ortega and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Search Engines intends to run through the current panorama of the academic search engines through a quantitative approach that analyses the reliability and consistence of these services. The objective is to describe the main characteristics of these engines, to highlight their advantages and drawbacks, and to discuss the implications of these new products in the future of scientific communication and their impact on the research measurement and evaluation. In short, Academic Search Engines presents a summary view of the new challenges that the Web set to the scientific activity through the most novel and innovative searching services available on the Web. - This is the first approach to analyze search engines exclusively addressed to the research community in an integrative handbook. The novelty, expectation and usefulness of many of these services justify their analysis - This book is not merely a description of the web functionalities of these services; it is a scientific review of the most outstanding characteristics of each platform, discussing their significance to the scholarly communication and research evaluation - This book introduces an original methodology based on a quantitative analysis of the covered data through the extensive use of crawlers and harvesters which allow going in depth into how these engines are working. Beside of this, a detailed descriptive review of their functionalities and a critical discussion about their use for scientific community is displayed

Download or read book Google Scholar and More written by William Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In only a few years, Google has become an authoritative provider of multiple products which have changed the digital information landscape. This book discusses how libraries can go beyond Google’s basic search and Scholar functions to expand services for their patrons. Respected authorities reveal the expanding variety of new Google applications developed in the past few years, many of which have not received wide attention and are as yet not often used in libraries. Applications explored include Google Co-op, Google News, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. This book also discusses different important aspects of the company’s expansion of functions, such as the failure of the Google Answers experiment, the broad variety of free Google applications that librarians can use to collaborate, and the success of Google’s Blogger, among others. A helpful chronology of Google’s growth is provided, as well as comparative analyses between various Google functions and other functions that are currently available. The book is extensively referenced. This book is an invaluable resource for academic librarians, public librarians, school librarians, library science faculty, and special librarians. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Library Administration.

Download or read book Federated Search written by Christopher N. Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand federated searching implementation better—and what works best in your library Federated Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services is a comprehensive guide to choosing, implementing, testing, teaching, and marketing federated search products in libraries. Experts in the field and librarians across the United States provide firsthand information on using federated search engines in different types of libraries (small, academic, and consortia), integrating search engines into library Web sites, homegrown upgrades, bidding on a product, other uses for software, and the future of federated searching. Federated Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services explains what factors come into play when choosing which federated search engine is appropriate for a library. This helpful resource discusses how to go out to bid for a product and provides a variety of case examples that illustrate implementation in libraries of different sizes. The book also includes information of what happened once federated search was implemented on various campuses, such as usability studies, teaching issues, getting buy-on from librarians, and marketing to students. Topics discussed in Federated Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services include: implementing federated search in different types of libraries why some libraries choose NOT to implement federated searching usability testing of federated search product implementations teaching issues with federated search products marketing to library users integrating federated searching into library web sites and existing services homegrown federated search upgrades the future of federated searching in libraries Federated Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services is an essential source on federated searching in libraries for librarians from any size or type of library.

Download or read book Scholarly Communications Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Googlization of Libraries written by William Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes a variety of articles which look critically and judiciously at Google and its products, with a focus on Google Scholar and Google Book Search. It also examines their usefulness in a public service context. Its ultimate aim is to assess the use of Google as a major information resource. Its subject matter deals with online megasearch engines and their influence on reference librarianship, the impact of Google on information seeking, librarianship and the development of book digitization projects in which Google Book Search plays its part. This book will be of interest to librarians across all educational sectors, library science scholars and publishers. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Library Administration.

Download or read book The Grammar of Status Competition written by Paul David Beaumont and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States do not only strive for wealth and security, but international status too. A burgeoning body of research has documented that states of all sizes spend considerable time, energy, and even blood and treasure when seeking status on the world stage. Yet, for all scholars' success in identifying instances of status seeking, they lack agreement on the nature of the international hierarchies that states are said to compete within. Making sense of this status ambiguity remains the key methodological and theoretical challenge facing status research in international relations scholarship. In The Grammar of Status Competition, Paul David Beaumont tackles this puzzle head on by making a strength out of status' widely acknowledged slipperiness. Given that states, statesmen, and citizens care about and pursue status despite its difficulty to assess, Beaumont argues that we can study international status hierarchies through these actors' attempts to grapple with this same status ambiguity. The book thus redirects inquiry toward the theories of international status (TIS) that governments and citizens themselves produce and use to make sense of their state's position in the world. Advancing a new framework for studying such TIS, the book illuminates how specific theories of international status emerge, solidify, and become contested, and how these processes influence domestic and foreign policy. Showcasing the value of a TIS approach via multiple historical case studies--from nuclear arms control to Norwegian education policy--Beaumont thereby addresses three major puzzles in IR status research: why states compete for status when the international rewards seem ephemeral; how states can escape the zero-sum game associated with quests for positional status; and how status scholars can overcome the methodological problem of disentangling status from other motivations.

Download or read book Competition Law Regulation and SMEs in the Asia Pacific written by Michael T Schaper and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for more than 90 per cent of all businesses in the Asia-Pacific region - an area which is rapidly updating its competition laws and regulations to encourage greater entrepreneurship and open, dynamic economies. Yet SMEs are almost invisible when those competition policies and laws are developed and enforced. SMEs are often quite different businesses than large, multinational corporations, but their nature, significance and characteristics are often overlooked. This book seeks to rectify the relative neglect in research and policy discussions on the role of the SME sector in competition policy and law. Drawing on contributions from a wide range of competition regulators, lawyers, academics, consultants and advisers to the SME sector, it addresses such important issues as: perceptions and views of small businesses about competition law; regulator engagement and education of the SME sector; the link between competition law and economic growth; franchising, SMEs and competition law; issues in enforcing competition law against SMEs; the role of Chinese family firms; trade, professional and industry associations; country case studies from Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, South Korea, Hong Kong SAR, Japan and the Pacific Islands.

Download or read book Marketing the 21st Century Library written by Debra Lucas-Alfieri and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the 21st century library is competing with numerous web-based resources, its clients can benefit from using its research assistance, physical and online holdings, and physical space, so they need to understand what the library offers. Marketing the 21st Century Library systematically and concisely teaches students and practitioners how to and why they should market and promote academic libraries. Librarians need to use marketing not only to advertise and promote resources, but also to boost the profession and the role we play. The book introduces key marketing concepts, followed by the history of library marketing. Subsequent chapters guide readers through a series of tools and resources so they can create their own marketing plans, concluding with an exploration of resources, services and further readings. - Includes web extras, tables, problem and solution exercises - Contains extensive references to real-world examples of good practice - Details practical examples and case summaries from leading libraries - Explores the importance of marketing and promoting academic libraries - Provides resources for readers to help create marketing plans

Download or read book Coverage of Business Administration Literature in Google Scholar written by Marcel Clermont and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Google Scholar is used for literature research as well as for evaluations of research performance. To establish Google Scholar's functional compliance we generate a heuristic method and apply it to business relevant journals, namely those ascertained and rated in VHB-JOURQUAL2 by Schrader/Hennig-Thurau (2009). This is done separately both for single rating categories and for special business research fields. It is shown that Google Scholar primarily indexes international, i.e. English-language journals with a high JOURQUAL rating; German-language literature is hardly covered systematically. In addition, we compare these results with the business journal content of EconBiz, Scopus and Web of Science. While Google Scholar is definitely competitive with Web of Science and Scopus for English-language literature, German-language literature is systematically covered by EconBiz, only. With regard to the journal coverage of some research areas, it becomes evident that EconBiz even dominates the databases Scopus and Web of Science. A shortened version of this paper with other figures is published in Bibliometrie - Praxis und Theorie.

Download or read book The Economic Characteristics of Developing Jurisdictions written by Michal S. Gal and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is ongoing debate as to what competition law and policy is most suitable for developing jurisdictions. This book argues that the unique characteristics of developing jurisdictions matter when crafting and enforcing competition law and these shoul

Download or read book Competition Law and Big Data written by Beata Mäihäniemi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely book, Beata Mäihäniemi analyses and evaluates how the characteristics of information as a good, as well as the characteristics of digital platforms, affect the application of competition law in both theory and practice.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Space Security written by Saadia M. Pekkanen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Space Security focuses on the interaction between space technology and international and national security processes. Saadia M. Pekkanen and P.J. Blount have gathered a group of key scholars who bring a range of analytical and theoretical perspectives to take an analytically-eclectic approach to assessing space security from an international relations (IR) theory perspective. Bringing together scholarship from a group of leading experts, this volume explains how these contemporary changes will affect future security in, from, and through space.

Download or read book The Designer s Guide to Doing Research written by Sally Augustin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Designer’s Guide to Doing Research An essential introduction to applying research for busy architects and designers The competitive design market and the need to create enduring value place high demands on architects and designers to expand their knowledge base to be able to digest and utilize multiple sources of information. Expected by their clients to be well versed on all aspects of a project, time-constrained architects and designers need quick responses in the face of daily challenges. As a result, these professionals must—more than ever—rely on, and apply, readily accessible information culled from sound research to gain a competitive advantage. The Designer’s Guide to Doing Research serves as an introductory guide on the general concepts and processes that define “good” research. Organized logically with the practical tools necessary to obtain research for all facets of the designer’s workflow, this book offers: Material written in an accessible format specifically for practitioners Reliable content by experienced authors—a noted environmental psychologist and an interior design educator who is also a practitioner and writer Tools for planning, executing, and utilizing research presented in an easy-to-follow format along with case studies, sources, and applications Written for all practices and people concerned with the built environment, from architects and interior designers to facility managers, landscape architects, and urban planners, this book serves as an invaluable starting point for gathering and implementing research effectively.

Download or read book Libraries and Google written by William Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the benefits—and drawbacks—of Google® Google® has become a nearly omnipresent tool of the Internet, with its potential only now beginning to be realized. How can librarians effectively integrate this powerful search engine to provide service to their patrons? Libraries and Google® presents leading authorities discussing the many possibilities of using Google® products as effective, user-friendly tools in libraries. Google Scholar and Print are extensively explored with an eye toward offering an expanded view of what is and may be possible for the future, with practical insights on how to make the most of the product’s capabilities. It seems certain that Google® is here to stay. Libraries and Google® comprehensively examines this “disruptive technology” that is seen as both a threat and an opportunity by both librarians and publishers. Both perspectives are explored in depth, along with practical applications of this and other Google® technology that may be new to librarians. Google® products and other more familiar research tools are compared for effectiveness and ease of use. The various unique needs of users and scholars are detailed and considered as a springboard for insightful discussion of the future role of librarians in today’s world. Potential problems are closely examined, such as copyright issues of digitization, and privacy concerns sparked by its collection of personal information about its users. The book comprehensively explores the path libraries need to travel to benefit from the search tool, rather than being overwhelmed and destroyed by it. Topics in Libraries and Google® include: the viewpoint that Google® may make libraries obsolete new opportunities for libraries through using Google® products technical aspects of purchasing and implementing Google® search products with proprietary vendor databases testing the performance of Google Scholar and Print practical use of Google®’s products personal privacy issues making digitized library resources more accessible digitization of copyrighted materials much, much more! Libraries and Google® is horizon-expanding reading for all librarians, library science educators and students, library administrators, publishers, and university presses. Volume 2 of Libraries and Google® is in preparation. Google® is a Registered Service Mark of Google, Inc., Mountain View, California. Libraries and Google® is an independent publication offered by The Haworth Press, Inc., Binghamton, New York, and is not affiliated with, nor has it been authorized, sponsored, endorsed, licensed, or otherwise approved by, Google, Inc.

Download or read book Competitive Intelligence written by Rob Duncan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-05-21 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is your competition doing right now? What tools can you use to predict what your competition will do next? How can you getand keepa competitive advantage? If you cant answer these questions, you need this book. Whether youre an innovator, entrepreneur or manager, Competitive Intelligence: Fast, Cheap & Ethical will help you make smart decisions that lead to profit and success. To make smart decisions about your business, you need intelligence. Not the kind of intelligence measured with IQ tests, but the kind that involves your ability to find, interpret and respond to the information around you. It is vital for entrepreneurs, innovators and managers to be able to understand what their competitors are doing, how they think and what they are likely to do in the future. Intelligence is everywhere, but do you know how to find and make use of it? Competitive Intelligence: Fast, Cheap & Ethical shows you how to use all your senses and mental powers to develop an in-depth picture of the competition and the broader business environment. This book gives you a wealth of easy to understand tools to help you keep tabs on your competitors and predict how they will behave in the future. You can use all of the techniques presented in this book at virtually no cost and in a legal and ethical manner. Let Rob Duncan show you how to create a vibrant CI process, one that is constantly being challenged, updated and refocused and one that is sure to lead you toward competitive success.