The excitement of Google Scholar, the worry of Google Print

In late 2004 Google announced two major projects, the unveiling of Google Scholar and a major expansion of the Google Print digitization program. Both projects have generated discussion within the library and research communities, and Google Print has received significant media attention.This commentary describes exciting educational possibilities stimulated by Google Scholar, and argues for caution regarding the Google Print project.

• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Biomedical Digital Libraries

• Publication date

  2005-03-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Education

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/1742-5581-2-2PMID 15784147PMCID 1079792
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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