The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 47, November 21, 2004, Article 3

NEW SEARCH TOOL: GOOGLE SCHOLAR

  On November 18 The Industry Standard published an article
  about a new search service that may prove useful to numismatic
  researchers:

  "Google Inc. on Thursday formally launched a new search
  service aimed at scientists and academic researchers. Google
  Scholar is a free beta service that allows users to search for
  scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, theses, books,
  preprints, abstracts and technical reports, the Mountain View,
  California, company said.

  The new service accesses information from resources such as
  academic publishers, universities, professional societies and
  preprint repositories, it said.

  Because the service automatically analyzes and extracts citations
  and presents them as separate results, users can find references
  to older works that may only exist offline in books or other
  publications."

  "Google Scholar is located at http://scholar.google.com."

  To read the full article, see: Full Story

  Based on a few trial searches the indexed papers seem to be a
  relatively random and incomplete set of materials, with many
  abstracts rather than full texts.  Many of the full papers are
  only available to paid subscribers of the individual
  publishing services.  Still, the tool could be very useful,
  particularly the feature which separately itemizes citations
  within scholarly papers.  As the article mentioned, this is
  a great way to learn about useful and perhaps obscure reference
  material that may be available offline.  After locating some
  interesting citations, a researcher would then have a want list
  for searching say, the library catalogue of the American
  Numismatic Society, or offerings of online used booksellers.

  Some papers located with a simple search on the term
  "numismatic" include:

  Shachar I, The Historical and Numismatic Significance of
  Alexander Jannaeus's Later Coinage as Found in Archaeological
  Excavations, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, April 2004

  H. Gitler, A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NUMISMATIC
  EVIDENCE FROM EXCAVATIONS IN JERUSALEM

  Orv Hetil, Numismatic souvenirs of the 100-year history of
  Hungarian radiology, 1997 [Article in Hungarian]

  Jarcho S., Medical numismatic notes, X: the Manchester
  Infirmary and Lunatic Hospital. 1973

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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