Google Scholar has a New Advanced Search

Hat tip to Gary "Resource Shelf" Price for the pointer to Google Scholar's new advanced search, available at http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search . Using the advanced search you can search for articles written in a particular journal, by a particular author, or within a particular time span.

Interesting; I couldn't find any stop words. That means if you were curious about what's actually in Google Scholar, you could search for no keywords and a journal keyword like "the" and see what pops up. Or the word Journal.

Date search as Gary noted is pretty broken. I searched for 2011 as my date span (no keywords again) and got 228 results. I think Google Scholar is picking up page numbers instead of dates.

Surprisingly the advanced search does not have the one feature I would have wanted. When I'm searching, I change my searches so that I'm using a level of query relevant to what I'm searching; if I'm searching a full-text engine, my queries are longer than if I'm searching a searchable subject index. Google Scholar has citations (teeny pools of data), articles (medium-sized pools of data) and books (large pools of data). It's hard to shape queries when there are so many different sizes of information being searched. How about an option that lets me narrow my search to books, articles, citations, etc.?

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