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Google Scholar and free or open access scholarly content: Impact on academic libraries
(2013)
Abstract
This study examines the bibliographic references that users of a social computing web application collect in order to measure the probability of the use of non-library electronic discovery services and open access content. The purpose is to understand the strategic future of academic libraries.
Keywords
- library and information science,
- academic libraries,
- google scholar,
- open access,
- disintermediation,
- Communication in learning and scholarship
Disciplines
Publication Date
January, 2013
Citation Information
C. Sean Burns. "Google Scholar and free or open access scholarly content: Impact on academic libraries" (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/cseanburns/27/
Doctoral student research poster session presented at the 2013 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference (Seattle, Washington, USA: January, 2013).
An updated version of this poster can be found here. A bibliography can be found here.