[LIS-Forum] Google service for Scholars

[Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna at i2.com]

Dear Professionals,



        The leading Search Engine - Google is doing a bit of service to the
scholar community. Pls read the article appeared on NY Times.Kudos to the
Indian who led the team

            http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/technology/18google.html


SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 - Google Inc. plans to announce on Thursday that it


is adding a new search service aimed at scientists and academic


researchers.


Google Scholar, which was scheduled to go on-line Wednesday evening at


scholar.google.com, is a result of the company's collaboration with a


number of scientific and academic publishers and is intended as a first


stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed


papers, books, abstracts and technical reports.  Google executives


declined to say how many additional documents and books had been indexed


and made searchable through the service. While the great majority of


recent scholarly papers and periodicals are indexed on the Web, many have


not been easily accessible to the public.


The engineer who led the project, Anurag Acharya, said the company had


received broad cooperation from academic, scientific and technical


publishers like the Association of Computing Machinery, Nature, the


Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the On-line Computer


Library Center.


PS: Its live and pretty amazing. See the "about" section at
http://www.scholar.google.com/ for some suggestions as to how to use it

Thanks
Sreeharsha BG
Knowledge Management Group
i2 Technologies software Pvt. Ltd.
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