{"id":365,"date":"2005-09-16T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=365"},"modified":"2005-09-16T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T19:14:07","slug":"google-scholar-swot-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2005\/09\/google-scholar-swot-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Scholar &#8211; SWOT analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A really interesting conclusion to the talk from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medewerker.uva.nl\/gor\/object.cfm\/objectID=4450B6C5-F9A1-4766-94CCD2776E40E7BD\">Marco Streefkerk<\/a> &#8211; his SWOT analysis of Google Scholar, and some questions for the SFX\/MetaLib and wider library communities:<\/p>\n<p>Finally Marco is summing up his feelings about Google Scholar:<\/p>\n<h2>Strengths<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Googles reputation and familarity<\/li>\n<li>Googles speed and user friendliness<\/li>\n<li>Relevance ranking based on citations<\/li>\n<li>Extra services<\/li>\n<li>Multi-disciplinarity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Weaknesses<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Heterogeneousness of the material<\/li>\n<li>Content is arbitrary<\/li>\n<li>Risk of dead-ends (users find the citation, but can&#8217;t access the full text)<\/li>\n<li>No expert search<\/li>\n<li>Anglo-Saxon (English language) focus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Opportunities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Offer an easy starting point<\/li>\n<li>Reach new user groups<\/li>\n<li>Reach new content<\/li>\n<li>Easy and exper search fully integrated using OpenURL<\/li>\n<li>Higher usage of valuable (expensive) content<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Threats<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lost sight (control) of indexing policy<\/li>\n<li>Possibility of censorship<\/li>\n<li>Users get lost\/confused<\/li>\n<li>User ends up at wrong copy (i.e. doesn&#8217;t get to the institutional subscription)<\/li>\n<li>Print collection becom less visible<\/li>\n<li>Information skills will disappear<\/li>\n<li>Library services become less visible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Questions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Do we want to give full-text prominence<\/li>\n<li>Can we consider GS as a normal resource<\/li>\n<li>Is GS a better service than Google when looking for a public domain copies<\/li>\n<li>Is GS better than citation linker or catalogue for tracking known items<\/li>\n<li>Is GS better than MetaLib&#8217;s QuickSearch<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the P R of GS compared to MetaSearch and native searches<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the commercial drive for GS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really interesting conclusion to the talk from Marco Streefkerk &#8211; his SWOT analysis of Google Scholar, and some questions for the SFX\/MetaLib and wider library communities: Finally Marco is summing up his feelings about Google Scholar: Strengths Googles reputation and familarity Googles speed and user friendliness Relevance ranking based on citations Extra services Multi-disciplinarity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-icau-and-smug-2005"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}