Replicating Top Users’ Searches in Summon and Google Scholar

David Earl Noe (Rollins College, USA)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1821-3.ch013

Source title: Planning and Implementing Resource Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries

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Noe, David Earl. "Replicating Top Users’ Searches in Summon and Google Scholar." Planning and Implementing Resource Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries. IGI Global, 2012. 225-249. Web. 22 May. 2013. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-1821-3.ch013

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Noe, D. E. (2012). Replicating Top Users’ Searches in Summon and Google Scholar. In M. Popp, & D. Dallis (Eds.), Planning and Implementing Resource Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries (pp. 225-249). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-1821-3.ch013

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Noe, David Earl. "Replicating Top Users’ Searches in Summon and Google Scholar." In Planning and Implementing Resource Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries, ed. Mary Pagliero Popp and Diane Dallis, 225-249 (2012), accessed May 22, 2013. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-1821-3.ch013

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This chapter discusses the results of a review of the first 25 results for some of the most common searches in one college’s instance of Summon™1 and the results for the same searches in Google Scholar™2. The results of the searches were provided to a panel of three librarians who did not know from which discovery service the results came. The chapter treats each search and its results as case studies and discusses both quantitative and qualitative evaluations. The study finds that neither search tool can provide reliable results for a simple search without further refinement of the search.

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