Integrating Discovery and Access for Scholarly Articles: Successes and Failures

Discovery has often been tied to access. People learn from the things they have access to, therefore allowing them to discover knowledge. The engineers at Google Scholar have worked hard to integrate and increase discovery and accessibility for people around the world by collaborating with the library and publishing communities to create a successful tool in scholarly research. This presentation provides the steps these engineers have taken to create one place that people can visit to find all scholarly literature, no matter the subject or the language. The wide range of literature can be accessed from a major university in the United States, or a much smaller college in a foreign country. Acharya outlines the goals of Google Scholar and discusses its successes and failures.