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2005

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Duplication Is Ubiquitous, Carol Tenopir Apr 2005

Duplication Is Ubiquitous, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article discusses how Phil Davis, Life Sciences Bibliographer at Cornell University, found duplicate articles in Emerald/MCB University Press journals. According to Davis, he has found hundreds of examples of the same article published in more than one journal in at least 73 Emerald/MCB journals over 30 years. This article gives the details of his discovery and what he chose to do about it.


Google In The Academic Library, Carol Tenopir Feb 2005

Google In The Academic Library, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Whatever it does, Google Scholar will be wildly popular with students. Already students turn to search engines (and Google most often) as a first choice. Google Scholar seemingly answers their teachers' and librarians' main objections to the web-that the material isn't of high enough academic quality...