Google Scholar Usage: An Academic Library's Experience

Autor/inn/en	Wang, Ya; Howard, Pamela
Titel	Google Scholar Usage: An Academic Library's Experience
Quelle	In: Journal of Web Librarianship, 6 (2012) 2, S.94-108 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1932-2909
DOI	10.1080/19322909.2012.672067
Schlagwörter	Academic Libraries; Library Services; Library Instruction; Internet; Corporations; Institutional Mission; Information Management; Access to Information; Search Engines; Higher Education; Web Sites; Information Retrieval; Search Strategies; Online Searching; Information Seeking; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College; Colleges; University; Universities; Libary; Libraries; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Universität; Bibliothek; Hochschulbibliothek; Bibliotheksarbeit; Bibliotheksverzeichnis; Unternehmen; Procurement of information; Informationsbeschaffung; Suchmaschine; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Web-Design; Suchstrategie; Online-Recherche; Informationserschließung; Kalifornien
Abstract	Google Scholar is a free service that provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly works and to connect patrons with the resources libraries provide. The researchers in this study analyzed Google Scholar usage data from 2006 for three library tools at San Francisco State University: SFX link resolver, Web Access Management proxy server, and ILLiad interlibrary loan server. Overall, the data suggested that Google Scholar had become a very useful resource in the library and was a significant addition to the library's collection of research databases. SFX data revealed requests from Google Scholar grew ten-fold from 2006 to 2011, and that Google Scholar became the top-ranked SFX source for requests in 2011. Library patrons favored Google Scholar over San Francisco State University's federated search tool, MetaLib, and it has become an important source for interlibrary loan requests. Analysis of San Francisco State University usage data will assist other libraries in their decisions about the implementation of Google Scholar. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10