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Direct linkGeorgas, Helen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2013
Federated searching was once touted as the library world's answer to Google, but ten years since federated searching technology's inception, how does it actually compare? This study focuses on undergraduate student preferences and perceptions when doing research using both Google and a federated search tool. Students were asked about their…
Descriptors: Internet, Undergraduate Students, Online Searching, Research Tools
Dougan, Kirstin – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
The Internet has changed how scholars perform their research. With more and more content available online that is fully searchable (often even for free), it is not surprising that students and others may turn there first before coming to the library. This study aims to identify the utility of three of the largest free access points to print…
Descriptors: Music, Internet, Library Materials, Music Education
Walters, William H. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2009
This paper presents a comparative evaluation of Google Scholar and 11 other bibliographic databases (Academic Search Elite, AgeLine, ArticleFirst, EconLit, GEOBASE, MEDLINE, PAIS International, POPLINE, Social Sciences Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, and SocINDEX), focusing on search performance within the multidisciplinary field of…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Online Searching
East, John W. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
This paper examines the problems involved in subject retrieval from full-text databases of secondary materials in the humanities. Ten such databases were studied and their search functionality evaluated, focusing on factors such as Boolean operators, document surrogates, limiting by subject area, proximity operators, phrase searching, wildcards,…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Search Strategies, Humanities, Bibliographic Databases
Cox, Christopher – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006
Federated search products are becoming more and more prevalent in academic libraries. What are the implications of this phenomenon for instruction librarians? An analysis of federated search products using the "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education" and a thorough review of the literature offer insight concerning whether…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Search Strategies
Brunvand, Amy; Pashkova-Balkenhol, Tatiana – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2008
Among librarians, government information has a reputation for being a valuable but underused resource. A literature review of undergraduate citation studies, however, reveals that the use of government information has apparently increased so much for some subject areas that, after books and journals, it has become one of the most frequently used…
Descriptors: Government Publications, Information Literacy, User Needs (Information), Librarians
