How Scholarly Is Google Scholar? A Comparison to Library Databases
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Comparison of PubMed and Google Scholar literature searches.
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عنوان ژورنال: College & Research Libraries
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2150-6701,0010-0870
DOI: 10.5860/0700227