The article appears in the June 7 (current) issue of CMAJ, written by former BC librarian, Jim Henderson, now director at the McGill University Medical Library. He suggests that GS’s value is limited for practising physicians. I agree with and understand some of his conclusions, but Google Scholar is still in beta and will likely grow in importance in the next while due to possible linkage with Google’s other projects. Gs is easier to use than PubMed (though still not as current) and “openly accessible” (not always the case with other tools mentioned) – which is a real bonus for a majority of health care providers in Canada.
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Henderson J. Google Scholar: A source for clinicians? CMAJ 2005; 172(12):1549-1550.
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