FYI
Google has introduced yet another search called "Google Scholar" to
search scientific research articles/papers, etc.
http://scholar.google.com
-- mks --
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Scholarly pursuits
Much of scholarly research is learning what others have discovered and
building on it. As the famous Isaac Newton quote goes, "If I have seen
further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Today we are
launching the beta version of a service which we hope will help this
process. Google Scholar is a free service that helps users search
scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books,
preprints, abstracts and technical reports.
Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search
results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful
references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking
takes into account the full text of each article as well as the
article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how
often it has been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar also
automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as
separate results, even if the documents they refer to aren't online.
This means your search results may include citations of older works and
seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline publications.
We at Google have benefited much from academic research. This is one of
the ways in which we are giving back to the research community. We hope
Google Scholar will help all of us stand on the shoulders of giants.
Anurag Acharya
Principal engineer