arethinn: glowing green spiral (Default)
Surely you all know about Google Scholar by now, right? I'm always the last to hear of these things.

Date: Nov. 18th, 2004 01:54 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] lindsaybits
lindsaybits: (underwater chihiro)
mrr...? never heard of it. what's it do? O.o

Date: Nov. 18th, 2004 01:58 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] lindsaybits
lindsaybits: (monkeyface)
*kaff*

uh, neb'mine. i just found the about page. you know. the one that was like, right out in the open. *blink*

Date: Nov. 18th, 2004 08:02 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] kudzu.livejournal.com
No... I still don't get it.

Date: Nov. 18th, 2004 08:07 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] starlightforest.livejournal.com
Search is restricted to scholarly texts and the like... Would be useful for the research they're always telling us we can do on the internet, hehe. Like for example, if I put in "witchcraft" on the normal Google, these are the first three hits:

Wicca, the religion
... "I don't think witchcraft is a religion. ... Misc. items: Witchcraft in Africa. "Witchcraft" in the Canadian criminal code. About Halloween -- facts and fables. ...
www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm - 48k - Cached - Similar pages

The Salem Witchcraft Trials
Famous American Trials Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692. ...
www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/ projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM - 12k - Cached - Similar pages

Children of Artemis - Witchcraft & Wicca
Children of Artemis - Witchcraft & Wicca in the UK. ... Witchcraft and Wicca Magazine New Issue in the Shops Soon! The new issue of the ...
www.witchcraft.org/ - 38k - Nov 17, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Whereas plugging it into scholar.google, I get this:

[BOOK] Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande - Library Search - Web Search
EE Evans-Pritchard, E Gillies - Cited by 113
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937

[BOOK] The modernity of witchcraft: politics and the occult in postcolonial Africa= Sorcellerie et … - Library Search - Web Search
P Geschiere - Cited by 37
Charlottesville [Va.]: University Press of Virginia, 1997

[CITATION] Magic among the Azande - Web Search
O Witchcraft - Cited by 10
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937

Do you see the difference in theme?

Date: Nov. 18th, 2004 08:49 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] kudzu.livejournal.com
I see, indeed. Good to know!

Date: Nov. 18th, 2004 08:27 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] zaecus.livejournal.com
You definitely weren't last this time.

What a nifty little thing!

Date: Nov. 19th, 2004 03:52 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shalora.livejournal.com
I didn't know either, but given that I have three papers to complete soon for this semester, that's a very good site to know about! Thanks hon! :)

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