Re: Article recommendation: OPACs, Google, and cataloging theory

Here
http://kentstate.academia.edu/karlfast/Papers/346311/Panizzi_Lubetzky_and_Google_How_the_Modern_Web_
Environment_is_Reinventing_the_Theory_of_Cataloguing

I got it instantly, without any fuss.

Dan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries 
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Pierfranco Minsenti
> Sent: 26 mai 2011 14:58
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Article recommendation: OPACs, Google, 
> and cataloging theory
> 
> I did google the article twice:
> 1) first time with Google Scholar which pointed me to INIST: 
> a French based electronic DD service available for a fee;
> 2) second time with Google: it pointed me to a free PDF copy 
> available from www.academica.edu provided that I registered 
> with the service, which I did without really understanding 
> what it is and why and how it happens that it distributes 
> this for free. In short I acted as an unexperienced student 
> which doesn't want to know from where things come, provided 
> that they are freely and instantly available.
> 
> Conclusion:
> 1) I ended with a free copy of an article which in theory is 
> not distributed freely (it is published in a journal 
> available through subscription, not an open access journal);
> 2) I was confirmed again that Google is very good for 
> retrieving an article when you have the title, which means 
> that it is good for a kind of "known item search";
> 3) I also concluded that this only means that Google is good 
> at the delivery part of the bibliographic search process. But 
> the discovery part is another matter.
> 
> pierfranco
> 
> 2011/5/26 Jason Etheridge <jason_at_esilibrary.com>
> 
> > > In the past Google would send me to sites acting as pay-walls for 
> > > stuff like this, so I was trying to skip all that by 
> going through 
> > > my library (PINES -> Galileo -> EBSCO).  A lot of hoops there.
> >
> > Some extra hoops involved me not finding a field for the "Accession 
> > Number" in the closest academic EBSCO database I could find, and 
> > having to search for a subset of the title rather than the 
> whole thing 
> > (which didn't work).  I really should have googled it. :-)
> >
> > -- Jason
> >
>