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aurumen · 12-12-2004, 07:20 PM

I read yesterday that ACS is sueing Google over the use of the word Scholar in their literature search site. The link is included below:

But I digress, I have been a user of Scifinder Scholar 2003-2004 for the past 3 years. The software has utilities for chemical structure and keyword searching which is useful in my chemical research. However, our institution only has 5 user licenses, so for a large research institution it is a pain to keep logging off to share resources and is not conducive to my research needs. This is where "web of science" (another really good, high cost, subscription literature search site) and Google Scholar come in to the equation. At our university the leased ip address information grants full text permissions to all e-journals in the schools subscription list. So, the job of finding relevant literature abstracts has been greatly simplified with the new Google site. I commend the researchers at Google for creating this outstanding product. I hope it helps to release the stranglehold imposed by the major scientific journal publishers on the advancement of an open access journal publication system.

Slashdot Reference:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...id=123&tid=146

12-12-2004, 07:20 PM	#15 (permalink)
aurumen Upright	Google Scholar being sued by ACS Scifinder Scholar I read yesterday that ACS is sueing Google over the use of the word Scholar in their literature search site. The link is included below: But I digress, I have been a user of Scifinder Scholar 2003-2004 for the past 3 years. The software has utilities for chemical structure and keyword searching which is useful in my chemical research. However, our institution only has 5 user licenses, so for a large research institution it is a pain to keep logging off to share resources and is not conducive to my research needs. This is where "web of science" (another really good, high cost, subscription literature search site) and Google Scholar come in to the equation. At our university the leased ip address information grants full text permissions to all e-journals in the schools subscription list. So, the job of finding relevant literature abstracts has been greatly simplified with the new Google site. I commend the researchers at Google for creating this outstanding product. I hope it helps to release the stranglehold imposed by the major scientific journal publishers on the advancement of an open access journal publication system. Slashdot Reference: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...id=123&tid=146 Last edited by aurumen; 12-12-2004 at 07:27 PM..