Google Scholar vs JSTOR
February 15, 2025 | Author: Maria Lin
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, papers. Allows to create personal online library
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JSTOR is a digital library containing digitized back issues of academic journals, books and primary sources, and current issues of journals. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. More than 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries have access to JSTOR; most access is by subscription, but some older public domain content is freely available to anyone, and in 2012 JSTOR launched a program providing limited no-cost access to old articles for individual scholars and researchers who register.
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2004. Google starts scientific paper search engine Scholar

Google has launched Google Scholar - academic search engine that provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature such as articles, theses, books and conference papers. It can be useful for researchers, students and academics as it allows to search for scholarly content across multiple disciplines and sources, including academic publishers, online repositories and universities. Google Scholar ranks search results based on the relevance of the content. Besides, it enables to create personal online article library with folders. It's slogan "Stand on the shoulders of giants", which was taken from an idea attributed to Bernard of Chartres, quoted by Isaac Newton, and is a nod to the scholars who have contributed to their fields over the centuries, providing the foundation for new intellectual achievements.