A heads-up for those academics on my friends list

[strange_complex]

Particularly scientific academics at the moment, but it could develop further:

Google Scholar

It searches specifically for articles and books, linking you to the text of the article if publically available online, or allowing you to do a library search for it or search for references to it on the web if not. It also provides links to all web sites which have cited the work.

Could become a viable replacement for lots and lots of individual bibliographic databases if it develops successfully. I guess it all depends on how much demand for it there seems to be.

Oh, and can I be the only person who just wants the two 'o's in Google to be little eyes, with a mortar board balancing above them? Perhaps they considered it and decided it was too twee?

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I just tried searching for you by name, but got 64 results (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22E.+Duerr%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Search) for "E. Duerr". Can you post up the link so we can see it?