UBC Library’s Communications & Marketing Officer Glenn Drexhage has done a nice journalistic piece on how Google is having an impact in academic work.
Written for the UBC Reports, it is now available online here.
Some choice quotes by various UBC librarians:
Eugene:
“In my workshops, I usually start by asking how many people are using Google for their research. Almost always I get at least 70 per cent,” says Eugene Barsky, a reference librarian with UBC Library’s Science and Engineering division.
Joanne:
“Google offers the most well-known one-stop shopping venue that most people are accustomed to using,” says Jo Anne Newyear-Ramirez, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication at UBC Library.
“Even the best search engines can access only about 25 per cent of the available information on the Internet,” adds Newyear-Ramirez. “Therefore 75 per cent of the information is excluded. That ‘invisible Web’ includes licensed, subject-specific resources the Library subscribes to.
Yvonne Chan
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