Google Scholar - it's warped their tiny minds!
"José van Dijck of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands argues that search engines in general, and Google Scholar in particular, have become significant co-producers of academic knowledge, rather than neutral tools. Google Scholar is a service [which] claims to search diverse sources from one convenient place, to find information in a range of formats (articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions) and help to locate these through a library or online.
To date, little empirical or ethnographic research is available on how students actually go about open searches. But surveys do prove that students performing topic searches for scholarly papers overwhelmingly choose search engines, rather than library-based research discovery networks, as their preferred starting-point. Many students view library services as an 'add-on' to Google Scholar, rather than the other way around." - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-11/spu-g-a111910.php
Any librarians reading this have my permission to start booing and hissing.
Enjoy the weekend, and keep a lookout for Agnostic Clown®.
To date, little empirical or ethnographic research is available on how students actually go about open searches. But surveys do prove that students performing topic searches for scholarly papers overwhelmingly choose search engines, rather than library-based research discovery networks, as their preferred starting-point. Many students view library services as an 'add-on' to Google Scholar, rather than the other way around." - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-11/spu-g-a111910.php
Any librarians reading this have my permission to start booing and hissing.
Enjoy the weekend, and keep a lookout for Agnostic Clown®.