Google Scholar

Address: http://scholar.google.com or through your local university library

Description: A search engine of scholarly journals provided by the world’s leading search engine. Through your university library full texts are available for many articles that are not available through the regular Google Scholar. Search results are ordered according to how many times the article has been cited in other works. This gives an incredibly powerful tool in deciding how relevant and trustworthy an article is.

Authorship: Google – the most respected search engine in the world (moto: Don’t Be Evil).

Publishing Body: Google.

Point of View or Bias: None – purely mathematical formulas for search results.

Referral to Other Sources: All results show how many other sources cite this source.

Verifiability: All results have links to other sources which cite this source.

Currency: Date of publishing shown on every result.

Accessibility: A WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) analysis reveals that the main page is accessible, although there are some javascript elements present which may confuse a screen reader. However, the search results page contains many accessibility problems. A typical search result yielded twenty major problems.

- cc 2009 Jonan Donaldson

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