Wednesday 25 February 2009

Google Scholar and Wikipedia as pre-search

Found out about this post via Twitter! Dean Giustini, the health librarian from UBC, Vancouver, posted in his blog The Search Principle :

"Use pre-search tools to orient yourself, to browse, ask questions and get acquainted with topics. Who are the leading authors in a given field? What articles are seminal? Pre-search as a concept is also applicable to Wikipedia. Think of mother Google this way (i.e. presearch) as well."

Dean is an expert on Google Scholar so I think this short post is worth a glance.

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