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duration: short «<br />

without a keyword.<br />

4 min.), medium (4-20 min.), or long (> 20 min.) with or<br />

is:free or is:forsale determines whe<strong>the</strong>r or not <strong>the</strong> search finds free or for<br />

purchase videos.<br />

language: limits <strong>the</strong> search to videos in a specific language using <strong>the</strong> same<br />

digraphs as main Google search.<br />

Google Video<br />

http://video.google.com/<br />

Google Scholar<br />

In November 2004, Google introduced a new tool called Google Scholar. Here's how<br />

<strong>the</strong> Google site describes it "Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for<br />

scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, <strong>the</strong>ses, books, preprints,<br />

abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google<br />

Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional<br />

societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available<br />

across <strong>the</strong> <strong>web</strong>." Moreover, "Google Scholar. ..automatically analyzes and extracts<br />

citations and presents <strong>the</strong>m as separate results, even if <strong>the</strong> documents <strong>the</strong>y refer to<br />

are not online. This means your search results may include citations of older works<br />

and seminal articles that appear only in books or o<strong>the</strong>r offline publications." Google<br />

Scholar not only indexes journal articles, dissertations, and technical reports, it also<br />

indexes books, which means you can use Google's new Library Search (OCLC's<br />

WorldCat search) to locate <strong>the</strong> book in a local library or find a place to purchase <strong>the</strong><br />

book online.<br />

Although a number of scholarly search sites and tools already exist-e.g., CiteSeer,<br />

DOAJ, ArXiv, and even Google's own partnership with IEEE-<strong>the</strong> fact that <strong>the</strong><br />

premier search engine has branched off into scholarly search is obviously<br />

significant. Google Scholar searches across a far wider range of sources than any<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r publicly available scholarly search tool currently available. Users should be<br />

able to read at least an abstract of articles that require registration and access <strong>the</strong><br />

full text if <strong>the</strong>y or <strong>the</strong>ir institution have a subscription for <strong>the</strong> content. The best thing<br />

about Google Scholar is that it gives users <strong>the</strong> range, power, and flexibility of<br />

Google. As far as I can tell, all <strong>the</strong> types of Google syntax-site:, inur/:, filetype:,<br />

etc.-work with Google Scholar. You can limit your search to file type using ei<strong>the</strong>r<br />

<strong>the</strong> fi/etype: or ext: syntax, e.g., [extpdf] (fi/etype: and ext: work interchangeably).<br />

The most useful addition to Google Scholar is probably <strong>the</strong> new author: syntax<br />

(which, by <strong>the</strong> way, already existed in Google Groups search).<br />

As you can see from this query, Google Scholar searches and retrieves scholarly<br />

references from many types of sources and also provides a handy "Cited by" link<br />

that shows all <strong>the</strong> pages referring to <strong>the</strong> original work.<br />

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