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This blog is for posting my assignments for my Access to Information course at Kent State.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Assignment 9: Google Scholar vs. KentLINK

For this second search on the topic of Copyright and Access, I did a Google Scholar Advanced Scholar Search:

Find articles with all of the words: copyright access

Find articles with at least one of the words: library

Search articles in all subject areas

Here are the articles I retrieved with the above search:


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Open Access Overview

Peter Suber

http://www.sspnet.org/documents/130_Suber.pdf

Cited by 207

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Motivations for URL citations to open access library and information science articles

Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall

http://www.springerlink.com/content/w84q15536062tx71/

Cited by 26

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Tracking the Transition to a Flexible Access Library Program in Two Library Power Elementary Schools.

Shannon, Donna M.

http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ523263&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ523263

Cited by 14

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My Library: Copyright and the Role of Institutions in a Peer-to-Peer World

Rebecca Tushnet

http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/uclalr53&div=31&id=&page=

Cited by 23

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Designing an online public access catalogue: Okapi, a catalogue on a local area network

http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/27461/

Mitev, Nathalie N. and Venner, G. M. and Walker, S.

Cited by 64

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Types of Open Contents and Management of Their Intellectual Property [J]

Chen Chuanfu

http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-ZGTS200401001.htm

Cited by 14

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Copyright without walls?: speculations on literary property in the library of the future

Jane C. Ginsberg

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2928618

Cited by 18

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Books Are for Use. Final Report of the Subject Access Project to the Council on Library Resources.

Atherton, Pauline

http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED156131&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED156131

Cited by 34

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New Access Right and Its Impact on Libraries and Library Users, The

Laura N. Gasaway

http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/intpl10&div=18&id=&page=

Cited by 23

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Open Access Federation for Library and Information Science

Anita Coleman and Joseph Roback

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december05/coleman/12coleman.html

Cited by 18

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Google's Technicolor Dreamcoat: A Copyright Analysis of the Google Book Search Library Project

Proskine, Emily Anne

http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/berktech21&div=25&id=&page=

Cited by 26

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Technology and Copyright Law: A Guidebook for the Library, Research, and Teaching Professions.

Bielefield, Arlene; Cheeseman, Lawrence

http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED403919&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED403919

Cited by 16

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Non-visual access to the digital library (NoVA) The use of the digital library interfaces by blind and visually impaired people

Craven, Jenny; Brophy, Peter

http://opensigle.inist.fr/handle/10068/445292

Cited by 31

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The Impact of School Library Media Centers on Academic Achievement.

Lance, Keith Curry; And Others

http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED353989&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED353989

Cited by 190

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The school library media manager

Blanche Wools

http://www.lnb.lv/lv/bibliotekariem/Bibliotekzinatnes_un_informacijas_zinatnes_literaturas_lasitava/apskati/2009-1/woolls0001.pdf

Cited by 40

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Library 2.0: Service for the Next-Generation Library.

Casey, Michael E.; Savastinuk, Laura C.

http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ755270&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ755270

Cited by 133

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How to build a digital library

By Ian H. Witten, David I. Bainbridge

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=bkfI7vcSfDwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR13&dq=copyright+access+library&ots=XviheYpSSN&sig=T4Uys4wgpe8WZ5ygFeOvvYaj03Q#v=onepage&q=copyright%20access%20library&f=false

Cited by 226

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Critical Analysis of Comparison of Google Scholar Search vs. KentLINK search conducted in previous blog entry:

Advantages of Google Scholar:

The process to access and use Google Scholar was quick, easy and free for all users. When I used KentLINK, it was accessible only to those affiliated with Kent and the process to input search terms and figure out how to organize results was much more confusing and time-consuming. Another benefit of using Google Scholar was that most of the works my search returned have been cited many, many times by other sources and there were many more results to look at. In KentLINK, I did not return as many results with my search and they had far fewer citations.

Disadvantages of Google Scholar:

When I searched in KentLINK, I was able to limit my results to those relevant to Library and Information Science. Google Scholar did not include Library and Information Science as a category to search through and even when I put in the additional piece of information, ‘library’ into my search field, I still returned many unrelated results. Another downfall was the inability to sort results in the same ways that KentLINK allowed, such as by number of citations. It did allow for sorting by date, though. Another disadvantage of Google Scholar was that not all of the articles retrieved were available in full text. In KentLINK, there was an option to search for only full text articles.

Conclusion:

Overall, I preferred the results from KentLINK over Google Scholar. Though the search process was a little lengthier and hard to figure out, I felt more sure of the accuracy and relevance of results.

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