From: "David P. Dillard" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 23:17:07 -0400
Subject: Re: Question about search engines

The best shot you have that I know of for finding library holdings is
the Summon version for that library which can only be done for
libraries that subscribe to Summon.   It seems that other discovery
services may tend to require a login to use the service, which can
only be done by members of that institution.

There are serious implications to the ability of Google searches to
find quality sources and research articles.  The examples of "Google
Domain Limited Web  Searches" are illustrated in a number of search
results links if you go to this URL that provides search results for
this phrase.

Included are searches for blog content in a post-Google Blog search
world and government documents in a post-Google Uncle Sam world as
well as content from or mentionind databases such and PUBMED,
ScienceDirect, JSTOR, NCJRS, GOV, ERIC/EDU all preceded by the SITE:
search command in Google Web searches.  Like any other type of
searching, this type of searching is very useful some of the time and
in other search examples, not so much, but it is another method to try
and add to ones search arsenal.

http://tinyurl.com/z6jxmzg

This link provides a search of a journal article in Summon

"Differences between caregivers and noncaregivers in psychological
health and physical health: a meta-analysis."

244 results

Source Type

Book / eBook (58)
Book Chapter (7)
Book Review (1)
Journal Article (177)
Reference (3)

http://tinyurl.com/j2dne3p

Another point to be made about Summon is that one can do subject
specific searches from Summon versions at different libraries and
compare collection numbers and sample and compare sources found. The
catch is that there is a limit to the number of results one can see
per search, but one can expand this by sampling different date ranges.

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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