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Harnessing the Power of Google 2019 Colorado Interlibrary Loan Conference

Join Christopher C. Brown, Reference Librarian, at the 2019 Colorado Interlibrary Loan Conference as he provides an overview of Google Web, Google Scholar, and Google Books. Learn how to leverage these platforms for academic purposes and discover primary source materials, academic articles, and book content. Gain insights into site-specific searching and top-level domain strategies to enhance your research capabilities. Don't miss this opportunity to harness the power of Google!

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Harnessing the Power of Google 2019 Colorado Interlibrary Loan Conference

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  1. Harnessing the Power of Google2019 Colorado Interlibrary Loan Conference Christopher C. Brown Reference Librarian

  2. Overview of the Three GooglesOverlapping at Times GS GW GB Note: this chart does not represent the actual Google architecture. It shows that different features are foregrounded in different environments.

  3. Google Web

  4. Google Web: How to leverage it for academic purposes • Primary source materials (government documents, international materials, technical reports, company policies, etc.) • Locating these with site-specific searching (domain searching; TLD searching) Examples: site:gov.ng domestic staffing site:state.gov country reports human rights site:undp.org development indicators climate change site:state.co.us marijuana regulation filetype:pdf site:gob.mx water statistics filetype:pdf

  5. Primary Source Materials • Federal Government • site:gov • State Governments • site:state.co.us • site:colorado.gov • Local Governments • site:denvergov.org • site:ci.denver.co.us • Foreign Governments • Need Top-Level Domain (TLD) strategies

  6. TLDs: Top-Level Domains • Google Web is most effectively searched when you can restrict searching to a top-level domain (like .edu, .gov, .jp) • To discover all the TLDs for countries, type TLD in a Google search box.

  7. TLD Examples • site:jp bullet trains  site:go.jp bullet trains • Refine search to PDF format:site:go.jp bullet trains filetype:pdf • site:mx "transportation policy" • Limit to government sites:site:gob.mx "transportation policy" • site:mx "transportation policy" filetype:pdf

  8. Google Scolar

  9. Google Scholar Content GS Publisher-supplied indexing and full text content Library-supplied journal holdings. Every online journal subscription from every publisher and aggregator

  10. Features of Google Scholar

  11. What’s in Google Scholar? • Google isn’t saying – so they leave it up to us to figure it out. http://libguides.du.edu/content.php?pid=86031&sid=639860

  12. Google Scholar Settings http://libguides.du.edu/Scholar

  13. Google Books

  14. Google Books: Background • Google Scholar is a metadata and full text search project • Where do books come from? • Partner Program – publishers and authors make their works more discoverable • Library Project

  15. Google Books Views • Full View – if in public domain may be able to download PDF • Limited Preview – publisher has given permission for preview of up to 20% or work • Snippet View – shows a few snippets that match search terms • No Preview – only basic information; sometimes not able to search full text From:http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/library/

  16. Google Books and the Library Catalog • Our online library catalogs used to be the most powerful tools in are toolbox • Now they are less discovery tools and more inventory tools • Google Books is a better way to discover what’s in our local collections. It is awkward, but useful at the same time.

  17. Google Books and HathiTrust • http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/about/history.html • http://www.hathitrust.org/partnership GB HT There are materials that are in GB that are not in HT, and vice versa

  18. Sometimes Easier to use HT than GB • Annual Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer Into Alaska

  19. Feature Differences

  20. The Three Googles: Summary Academic, scholarly journal articles GS GW Primary source materials Discovery + Fulfillment Discovery + Fulfillment GB Full text of books Discovery Only

  21. The Information Access Anomaly 1http://www.writersservices.com/wps/p_word_count.htm  • This explains why users feel that your library doesn’t have the books they need. The library discovery tools are not deep enough to provide rich discovery of book content.

  22. Recommended Reading Available online as an ebook to DU people. See the library catalog. Brown, Christopher C. Harnessing the power of Google: What every researcher should know. Libraries Unlimited, 2017. Available on Amazon.

  23. Questions? • Contact Chris Brown: • Christopher.Brown@du.edu

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