Friday, April 09, 2004

Google Teams Up with 17 Colleges to Test Searches of Scholarly Materials This article by Jeffrey Young from the Chronicle of Higher Education describes a development that may eventually have relevance for digital libraries and for online instructional repositories. JH _____ "Google, the popular search-engine company, has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 other universities around the world to provide a way to search the institutions' collections of scholarly papers, according to university officials....A pilot test of the project is just getting under way. If all goes as planned, the search feature could appear on Google in a few months, said MacKenzie Smith, associate director of technology for MIT's libraries. She said the search would probably be an option on Google's advanced-search page.... 'A lot of times the richest scholarly literature is buried" in search-engine results, said Ms. Smith. 'As more and more content is on the Web, it's harder and harder to find the high-quality stuff that you need.'" 12:54:27 PM    COMMENT []