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Where Google Scholar stands on art: an evaluation of content coverage in online databases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Hannah Noll Rozear
Hannah Noll Rozear*
Affiliation:
Duke University, 104 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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Email: hannah.rozear@duke.edu
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Abstract

This study evaluates the content coverage of Google Scholar, as it compares to three bibliographic databases – Arts & humanities citation index, Bibliography of the history of art and Art full text/Art index retrospective – on the subject of art history. The comparison reveals that it indexes roughly one-third of the 470 tested articles, dwarfed by the Arts & humanities citation index’s 73% coverage. Additionally, 64% of the 157 articles retrieved in Google Scholar are ‘citation-only’ records that contain incomplete bibliographic data and lack direct links to the abstracts or full text of the articles.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , 2009 , pp. 21 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2009

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