Google Scholar and Academic Libraries

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Google Scholar and Academic Libraries is a web-based scholarly search engine, a citation analysis tool and a gateway to materials on the web that are open access. As well as this it connects to library journal subscriptions and book collections. It has been described as a "blended" resource for academic libraries as it cannot be categorised as one type of resource. It has also been described as .."an ad-supported search engine with interesting added capabilities. Neither replaces libraries or intends to." However, Google Scholar does not currently display any advertising.