BIBLIOTHEKE

Library Journal has a short Google Scholar review that makes a couple of quick points to note including:

Karen Blakeman, director, RBA Information Services, “would like to see a list of sources” included. Her experiences with Google Scholar have been disappointing because of missing power search features: a consistent, controlled vocabulary (or even access to vocabularies that exist in NLM-PubMed records); the ability to search on fields like ISBN; and sorting by publisher, author, or dates.

Certainly the advanced search controls need to be closer to what we are accustomed to. See? Google has stuff to learn from libraries.

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