Google Scholar

Abstract

Google Scholar (GS) is a digital library that provides an access to enormous amount of scholary literature including journal and conference papers, dissertations, academic books, abstracts, technical reports, patents and more. It tries to cover the widest research area possible by collecting documents using search robots crawling the web sites and indexing documents according to the relevance and ranking of a search term. This paper tries to cover the basic description, current state and searching and indexing mechanism of Google Scholar.