Google Scholar Library

You can now save Google Scholar results into a personal library:

You can save articles right from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar's full-text search & ranking to quickly find just the one you want - at any time and from anywhere. You decide what goes into your library and we’ll provide all the goodies that come with Scholar search results - up to date article links, citing articles, related articles, formatted citations, links to your university’s subscriptions, and more. And if you have a public Scholar profile, it’s easy to quickly set up your library with the articles you want - with a single click, you can import all the articles in your profile as well as all the articles they cite.

Learn more on the Google Scholar Blog.

Build your own Google Custom Search

Kif Leswing over at Wired has a great article covering the basics of creating a Google Custom Search.

 

Read the full article @ Wired.com.

Google Books Scanning Project Declared Fair Use

Here's the full ruling. It's only 30 pages and is well worth reading.

Google Books ruling on fair use.pdf by jeff_roberts881

Google "translates" beatbox

Head on over to Google Translate, enter the following into the translate box, and then click the speaker icon to hear Google beatbox.

pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch 

 

This tip courtsey of Geekosystem.com.

Google Finds Hotels

This week Google released Google Hotel Finder a dedicate search for finding hotels in cities all over the world. Start by entering your destination city and then your check-in and check-out dates. Your results will be presented along with reviews, maps, and rates. Sort your results by price, class, brand, rating, amenity, and location. Select a particular hotel for even more details and booking options.

Google Search Secrets is in print and shipping now!

For Immediate Release
Tue, 10/29/2013

Contact:

Rob Christopher

Marketing Coordinator

ALA Publishing

312-280-5052

rchristopher@ala.org

American Library Association

CHICAGO — Google can be an incredibly powerful tool for research, but the top-of-the-page results are seldom the most beneficial to library users and students, and many of the search engine’s most useful features are hidden behind its famously simple interface. In “Google Search Secrets,” published by ALA Neal-Schuman, Christa Burns and Michael P. Sauers reveal tricks and tips for effective Google searches, showing how to get the most out of the service, with:

• an overview of all the tool’s search services, including Images, Maps, News, Blogs, Discussions, Scholar, Patents and Books;
• ready-to-use instructions on how to go beyond the simple search box and top results to get library users the answers they need, fast;
• straightforward guidance on using filters to refine search results, with examples of common searches like images with Creative Commons licenses, news searches set for a date range or into an archive and videos with closed captioning;
• an explanation of the bibliography manager feature of Google Scholar, which allows students and researchers to build bibliographies with ease;
• tips for configuring Safe Search on workstations in children’s departments and schools;
• copious screenshots that walk readers through each topic step by step.

Burns is the special projects librarian, technology and access services, at the Nebraska Library Commission. She provides organization, training and consultation for special projects, such as the Gates Foundation grants for libraries, E-rate, Learning 2.0 and group purchases of library products and services. She also coordinates, produces, and hosts the Commission’s weekly webinar series, NCompass Live. She previously spent more than eight years at Pace University in Westchester County, N.Y., starting as a reference librarian and working her way up to become head of research and information services.

Sauers is currently the technology innovation librarian for the Nebraska Library Commission in Lincoln, Neb., and has been training librarians in technology for almost 20 years. He has been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library Friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant and bookseller. He earned his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. He blogs at The Travelin' Librarian, and runs websites for authors and historical societies. He has authored or co-authored many books, including “Semantic Web Technologies and Social Searching for Librarians (THE TECH SET® #20).”

ALA Store purchases fund advocacy, awareness and accreditation programs for library professionals worldwide. Founded in 1976 by Patricia Glass Schuman and John Vincent Neal, ALA Neal-Schuman, now an imprint of ALA Publishing, publishes professional books for librarians, archivists, and knowledge managers. Contact us at (800) 545-2433 ext. 5052 oreditionsmarketing@ala.org.

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Mega SERP: A Visual Guide to Google

The folks over at The Moz Blog have created an amazing version of a Google search engine results page (SERP) containing every currently conceivable type of search result. No, you'll never actually see a real-life results page like this, and it is designed for the SEO crowd, but it's an amazing graphic none the less. Click on the image for the original blog post containing the explanation of each area shown.