Google Offers Scholarly Literature

Google is that kind of company that wants to become an important part of our lives, by developing new solutions which are meant to change our life. Probably the best example is offered by Google University, a solution that helps graduates to choose their university with ease, just with a simple search engine.

The latest service provided by Google was developed to sustain this idea, being represented by Google Scholar, a simple search engine that allows you to search for scholarly literature by typing the name of the author, article or even publication.

Google Scholar uses the same technology as Google Search and organizes your results by the relevance to the keyword you entered and allows you to find literature in multiple areas: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Anurag Acharya, Principal engineer, posted a message on the official blog to announce the new service and present more details about the search engine.

"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," he said.

The Google Scholar search engine is available here and it can be used just like Google Search, offering you an advanced search options that will improve the relevancy of your search engine results.