Google’s interface to scholarly literature
Google now has a search interface for finding journal articles and
books. Evidently they’ve indexed content from a number of
contributing publishers. For some, only citations are available,
but Google tells how many other references have cited a particular
work. It will increasingly expose open access publications, but
proprietary content will still be only partially accessible. (Source:
SPARC Open Access Forum)
Update: The New York Times has an article about the service.
Update (11/19/04): ResourceShelf and Traffick.com critique Google Scholar. (Source: Library Juice)