UPDATED Post: All About the New Google Scholar Email Alerts; Google's Anurag Acharya Lends a Hand
The other day we posted an in-depth look at a new Google Scholar feature that allows searchers to, for the first time, use Google itself to create simple and/or complex alerts of the Scholar database and have Google automatically send updates (via e-mail) with links to learn more about new materials that meet the search query criteria.
Since our original post, we had the opportunity to chat via email with Dr. Anurag Acharya, the founding engineer of Google Scholar. He corrected a few facts and answered several additional questions about the Google Scholar service. We would like to thank him very much for taking the time to do this.
So, if you revisit our post from Monday, you'll be able to learn more. If you have other questions or run into major issues, send them along (make sure to put "Google Scholar Issues") on the subject line. Then, will package them together and attempt to contact Dr. Acharya again and share with him what your issues. No promises, but we'll try our best.
Btw, when asking him what might be termed a "common question" (we personally know several others who have asked it) about the possibility of providing a Google Scholar directory of, at the least, major publications included in Scholar, he referred us to an article from the Google Librarian Central Newsletter from a few years ago. It got us wondering whatever happened to Librarian Central? The latest newsletter is from over a year ago. Hmm. What makes it even more interesting is that on July 11, 2008, via the Librarian Central blog, it was announced that the blog was closing, "to focus on the newsletter." Time for another email to Google. (-:
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