2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008): GeoRef, ISI Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar - What Is the Future for Abstracting and Indexing Services in the Geosciences?
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328-14 GeoRef, ISI Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar - What Is the Future for Abstracting and Indexing Services in the Geosciences?



Wednesday, 8 October 2008: 5:15 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 351BE
Mary W. Scott, Geology Library, The Ohio State Univ, 180 Orton Hall, 155 S. Oval Dr, Columbus, OH 43210
Access to previous results of research is basic to all research. Recent articles on information resources in high-energy physics and engineering have raised questions about the relevance of commercial abstracting and indexing services in those fields. Do the same questions apply to the geosciences? What is the first choice for students and researchers for searching today? Preliminary results from a survey of faculty and students suggest that GeoRef is not the first place they look.
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