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[ChinaMovieMagic]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/technology/25goog.html

A Tool for Scholars Who Like to Dig Deep

By DANIEL TERDIMAN

Published: November 25, 2004


JOHN JORDAN, a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, is a Charles Dickens specialist. On occasion, though, he turns his professional gaze away from Victorian fiction to a more obscure area: South African literature.

Mr. Jordan does a fair bit of his research using an online database known as Jstor, and when trying to find Dickens citations, the service usually meets his needs.

But the same is not true when he looks for scholarly works from South Africa. That's because, he says, Jstor does not subscribe to that country's journals.

Mr. Jordan's life may have just gotten a little easier. With a new service called Google Scholar (scholar.google.com), a one-stop shop of scholarly abstracts, books, peer-reviewed papers and technical papers intended for academics and scientists, articles he has had trouble finding may now be close at hand.

"It underlines something that I was aware of already, which is the limitations of the search engines that I was using previously," Mr. Jordan said of discovering Google Scholar. "Now that I know about it, it's probably going to be the place that I'm going to start" when looking for obscure works.

[matttheboy]

Does this forum have a problem with the name Di ckens? Let's see.. Dickens

[matttheboy]

Looks like it does...any other names you know of that Dave's finds offensive??????

[carnac]

Let's try "brussels sprouts".

Nope. Seems to be allowed.

I certainly find them offensive.