Today we're launching a feature of Google Scholar which will make it easier for researchers to keep up with recent research. From quantum computing to copper binding in prion protein. It's not just a plain sort by date, but rather we try to rank recent papers the way researchers do, by looking at the prominence of the author's and journal's previous papers, how many citations it already has, when it was written, and so on. Look for the new link on the upper right for "Recent articles" -- or switch to "All articles" for the full list. Scholarly endeavors are about learning what has already been done and building on it. We hope this feature will help researchers worldwide learn from and build on the latest advances.
Update. For a few other new features at Google Scholar, see Anurag Acharya's posting to SOAF this morning. Excerpt:
Google Scholar now has an additional mode to search for "recent articles". This is not a sort-by-date. Rather it tries to approximate how researchers select new papers to read by taking into account prominence of the authors' and the journals' previous papers, how long the paper has been published, the number of citations and so on. This mode can be selected by clicking on the "Recent Articles" link that appears on the top right of search result pages. You can read more about it and see some examples in Dejan's blog post.
In addition to this, we now link to thirteen national/regional union catalogs for the Library Search functionality. This allows users to find libraries that are holding books that they are looking for. If we are working with a union catalog in your region, links will appear automatically in search results. You can also select links to specific union catalogs using the "Library Links" search box on the Scholar Preferences page. Finally, we now facilitate citation import to EndNote, RefWorks, Refman and Bibtex. This can be enabled by an option on the Scholar Preferences page.
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Peter Suber at 4/21/2006 07:58:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
