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| العنوان: |
GOOGLIZERS vs. RESISTORS. |
| المؤلفون: |
Kenney, Brian |
| المصدر: |
Library Journal. 12/1/2004, Vol. 129 Issue 20, p44-46. 3p. 5 Color Photographs. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*Libraries, *Information resources, *Information storage & retrieval systems, *Electronic information resource searching, *Databases, *Literacy, *Database searching, *Information retrieval, *Information services, *Online information services, *Data mining, *Web search engines, *Library technical services, *Cataloging, *Keyword searching, *Abstracting, *Indexing, *Content analysis, *Documentation, *Library personnel, *Research libraries, *Information scientists, *Electronic information resources, Public institutions |
| الشركة/الكيان: |
Google Inc. |
| مستخلص: |
The article presents details regarding the debate between librarians over the usefulness of search engines such as Google. Google, Yahoo, and the other search engines raise questions about expensive, proprietary databases. While the latter deliver precise and high-quality results, users may find them too complex and not be willing to learn how to work with them. Beyond commercial databases, Google's search box and relevancy ranking are pushing new designs for accessing cataloged content. Witness the Research Library Group's RedLightGreen project. Because of the nature of scientific discovery, and that so much of it is underwritten by tax dollars, we are going to find more and more freely available on the web. The specificity of the language, especially around medical content, lends itself to keyword search. But that is not the case for disciplines such as business and social science that have a much softer terminology around them. They require the intervention of editors and controlled vocabularies in order for researchers to retrieve the information they need. When you invest in a commercial database such as ProQuest, one of the things you pay for is the indexing and abstracting so researchers can retrieve these articles precisely, quickly, and easily. If we moved into a Google world we would replace this abstracting and indexing with keyword search. Thinking beyond an academic setting, there are a lot of people out there who are not going to have the benefit of formal information literacy. If Google is the first thing they turn to for information resources, we need to make sure that they are getting pointed at least to our library catalogs and other resources. |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
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