I'm suprised this hasn't actually been posted here yet.

 

Google's new scholarly search engine

 

I tried it out, and was delighted; I immediately found several papers I'd been after. It's still in beta, and doesn't give full-text access to all articles (but does for a fair few), but it's still awesome!

 

Try it out!

 

Mokele

Looks pretty useful.

 

It'd be great if there were a way to select for full text articles.

yeah, you just get the website where it is mentioned, you dont actually get the full text stuff which is VERY annoying!

Brilliant. 43,800 hits for basalt. Although several returned a 'page cannot be found' there was not apparent rubbish.

Appears worthwhile, even with some tough keys was able to come up with some viable alternatives ... found couple of own papers as evidence of it .

Thanks for the tip, that website look really useful. It's a pain to find desired journals in regular google, theres way to much "noise."

And remember, it's in beta, so any problem you have or requests (like a way to search for full-text only) can be emailed to google.

Pretty ace tool there

Seems decent. I didn't think it was superior to medline however (at least for the subjects I usually search for).

 

Still needs a way to search by author and/or year of publication etc. I wonder how this particular search engine works. Usually for online journals the author selects a few keywords which will result in a "hit". I wonder if it searches by number of links or whatever the same way normal google does.

I see they nicked Newton's words as well.

The funny thing is, iirc, those words were an insult. At one point, Hooke and Newton got into it, Hooke claiming Newton had stolen his work. Newton said "If I have seen farther than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" because Hooke was apparently quite short.

 

So basically, their motto is a snide insult by Newton.

yes , thats rite except i think Hooke wasnt short but had a back problem, which made him stoop and made him appear short.

Maybe the back problem came about after Newton tried to clamber onto his shoulders?

LOL. I really enjoy using Google Scholar thanks. I've had the enjoyment of passing the word unto others. Does anyone know when the real version is going to come out?

Blah

 

All the papers I want go to Pubmed, which then takes me to ScienceDirect, which then wants me to pay!

 

I found a good site for papers though: http://carcin.oupjournals.org/

 

There's other categories too.

 

Does anyone have any other sites that have FREE online papers?

 

In particular, papers dealing with the maths and physics of radiation backscatter?

 

Thanks in advance, if you have any ...

Well you CAN get sciencedirect ones for free if you run them through a uni proxy.

 

Any body wants to know how, and you can have my password, send me a message.