Keith N Hampton

Google has come out with a wonderful new search tool, Google Scholar. I have always lauded the importance of the Social Science Citation Index to my students, but it is very possible that Google has out done the SSCI. According to the About Google Scholars webpage, Google includes \”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.\” On the surface it sounds far more complete than the SSCI.