[e-drug] new professional search tool scholar.google.com

["E-Drug" <e-drug@healthnet.org>]

E-DRUG: new professional search tool scholar.google.com
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[Tired of finding company sponsored websites or irrelevant hits in normal searches? Try the new scholar.google.com Beta website.
It provides 137,000 hits on "essential drugs". The message below from HIT-net, an email discussion list of WHO aiming to improve access to reliable information for healthcare providers in developing and transitional countries. WB]

Dear colleagues,

For those of us lucky and wealthy enough to have reasonable internet 
access, the dominant search engine, Google, has made a great new research 
tool available at no cost:

http://scholar.google.com/

"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly 
literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, 
abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use 
Google Scholar to find
articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional 
societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly 
articles available across the web."

A few test 'vanity' searches on names of people I know (including of course 
on my own name and that of our illustrious HIF-net at WHO moderator ;) 
impressed me. I recommend it.

Kind regards,
Christine

[HIF-net at WHO profile: Christine Porter is interested in how new ICTs 
are, can and should be used by
and for health and development professionals in the field. Having worked 
for a decade in and around this arena, she will soon begin a PhD program in 
adult education at Cornell University to further her MA research in this field.
<http://myprofile.cos.com/c_porter> <cporter2@twcny.rr.com>]

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