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Google Tools and your Library - the Possibilities are Exponential. Google CSE Google Scholar Google Books @ My Library Google Alerts Google Gadgets & iGoogle. Google Custom Search engine. Custom Search Engines – a Good Fit for your Library
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Google Tools and your Library - the Possibilities are Exponential • Google CSE • Google Scholar • Google Books @ My Library • Google Alerts • Google Gadgets & iGoogle
Google Custom Search engine Custom Search Engines – a Good Fit for your Library • Vertical search – focus your users on what matters most • Choose exactly which Web sites or pages your CSE searches across • CSE tool makes it easy to create your own search engine • Embed your CSE in Web pages or simply link to them. http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
Google Scholar Is your library standing on the shoulders of Google Scholar? • Simple, familiar interface; fast results • Basic Search screen – Boolean supported, stemming • Advanced search • Search limits (author, publication, date range) • Broad search topics • Simple sorting feature – most recent articles first • Disadvantages • No authority control • Search results ranking (not transparent) • Poor coverage of social science journals • Library Linking Program – provide link from G.S. search results to your libraries licensed full-text resources • OpenURL Resolver – 360 Link • Get to full-text by selecting Full text @ CARL when displayed in search result Note: You can export your citations you find in Google Scholar directly into Refworks.
Google Books - MyLibrary The Google BookThing • Set-up your own virtual library within Google Books • Log-in in to your free Google account • Then when search Google Books you’ll see the link to “Add to my Library” next to each result. • MyLibrary • Can search within just your own bookshelf • Brose your bookshelf in list view or book cover view. • Add ratings and reviews to your books • Organize your bookshelves b y subject categories • My Library label feature lets you tag your books with keywords • Each virtual collection/subject has its own unique url you can link to. • CARL Google Bookshelves
CARL Google Bookshelves Google Books
Google Alerts You’ve got mail: Stay up-to-date with Google Alerts • Keep yourself or institution current on a developing news story or professional trends. • Google Alerts are email updates containing the latest relevant Google search results from news sites, blogs or Web sites. • Creating your alerts • Can be as simple as entering some keywords • Best practice : build your query from the Google Advanced search page. Then copy and paste your advanced search query into the search box on the Google Alerts homepage. • Search all the web or just pieces of it (ie news sites, or blogs or web sites) • Get results either daily, weekly, monthly
iGoogle Make yourself at home on the Google Homepage • Online virtual workspace/info portal • Create by selecting and adding gadgets to your iGoogle page • Gadgets are mini-web applications • More than 25K to chose from • Tools like email, Google Docs, news feeds, blog and podcast feeds, instant messaging, travel, weather, finance gadgets & more… • Advantages • Brings into one place web tools and resources you’d otherwise have to surf to • Accessible to you anywhere you have an Internet connection • Updated automatically with latest info, weather, traffic, finance, headlines • Create gadgets for your library • Because its where the users are • Marketing tool CARL Gadgets
Google Tools and your Library • View this presentation online at: http://www.slideshare.net/edmetz1/mlw-188193/ • Questions? Contact Info: Ed Metz Systems Librarian, USACGSC edward.metz@conus.army.mil 913-758-3027