This past week I have been in researchdom. My favorite part of research is discovering new cool things from the cool things I already discovered. I was thinking as I was looking up various books and articles at just how awesome Google Scholar is! I can search a journal article across many different databases and in most cases it saves me the step of looking up the journal title in our catalog (which I can't deny is also useful), accessing the database this way and then searching for the article. Google Scholar is so simple! To make my life even easier Wayne State provides a link to Google Scholar that automatically authenticates each journal article I click on through their search (linked on the library's front page even...how wonderful!).
Google Book Search is also pretty cool. Find in a library links will open to Open WorldCat, but just typing the same search in Open WorldCat, MelCat, or one of my other library plugins for Firefox is also pretty easy. Although I was very surprised to find that one of the books I was looking for in Google Book Search is available almost completely in digital form on there. It was a new book too, ironically about copyright law. I knew we had it in my library so Iopted to request it from there but it's good to know it's there.
