Replicating Top Users' Searches in Summon and Google Scholar

Author:

Noe, David Earl

Place:

Hershey, PA

Publisher:

IGI Global

Date published:

2012

Editor:

Popp, Mary Pagliero

Source:

Planning and Implementing Resource Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries

Abstract:

This chapter discusses the results of a review of the first 25 results for some of the most common searches in one college?s instance of Summon?1 and the results for the same searches in Google Scholar?2. The results of the searches were provided to a panel of three librarians who did not know from which discovery service the results came. The chapter treats each search and its results as case studies and discusses both quantitative and qualitative evaluations. The study finds that neither search tool can provide reliable results for a simple search without further refinement of the search.

Series:

Advances in Library and Information Science

Catagory URL:

http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-4666-18…

DOI:

https://library.au.int/10.4018/978-1-4666-1821-3.ch013

CITATION: Noe, David Earl. Replicating Top Users' Searches in Summon and Google Scholar edited by Popp, Mary Pagliero . Hershey, PA : IGI Global , 2012. Planning and Implementing Resource Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries - Available at: https://library.au.int/replicating-top-users-searches-summon-and-google-scholar