Google unveils new service for scholars
19 November 2004
The world's most-used search engine Google has formally launched a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers.
Google Scholar is a free beta service that allows users to search for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.
The company, based in Mountain View, California, revealed that the new service accesses information from resources such as academic publishers, universities, professional societies and preprint repositories.
Google Scholar, at http://scholar.google.com, searches a specific subset of Google's index and covers a range of different fields, from medicine and physics to economics and computer science.
The new tool also automatically analyses and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, meaning that search results may include citations of older works and seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline publications.
Anurag Acharya, a principal engineer at Google, said in a post on the Google blog that: "We at Google have benefited much from academic research. This is one of the ways in which we are giving back to the research community. We hope Google Scholar will help all of us stand on the shoulders of giants."
He added that the free service will not initially carry web search advertisements. Web search advertising accounts for almost all of Google's revenue.
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