36 month ago
Rod Begbie : Internet encyclopaedias go head to head : Nature - Nature magazine performed a blind peer-review of several science topics in Wikipedia and Encyclopædia Britannica. Perhaps surprisingly, the number and type of errors in both were very similar, although the experts found the writing in Wikipedia to be [via] #
Linkorama : Internet encyclopaedias go head to head - Peer review proof point
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41 month ago
Linkorama : Wiki Products: A comparison - For educational use, gets the Socialtext price wrong ($5, not $30)
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Google Scholar - a new way of navigating through scholarly materials - This is pretty awesome - using keyword searches and citations to help you find academic materials from across the web. When it can, it links through to PDFs of the articles concerned. Many hours of fun to be had here...
Anne van Kesteren : Google Scholar - Cool stuff [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : google scholar - google scholar: beta, of course
cobra libre : google scholar - i've already found some lit crit articles that i wouldn't have otherwise found #
cameron : Google Scholar - citeseer destroyer
Simon Willison : Google Scholar - Search academic papers. Invaluable for degree course final year projects.
Kayode Okeyode : Google Scholar: Stand on the shoulders of giants
Philippe Janvier : Google Scholar - Mémoires de fin d'année :) "We at Google have benefited much from academic research. This is one of the ways in which we are giving back to the research community." [via] #
Linkorama : Google Scholar - Stand on the shoulders of giants
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