This is an incomplete listing of a few academic search tools.
See also:
- my paper w/ Jake Goldenfein (Google Scholar – Platforming the scholarly economy (goldenfein2022platforming))
- my scholar profiles (page).
Note:
This is a new service. Metadata is being improved and features have not been finalized.
Example query: Internet Archive Scholar [ “Daniel Griffin” “Deirdre Mulligan” ]
Note:
Alpha version: buggy, incomplete, and changing daily.
Example query: Open Alex [ (manual filter: Author name:Richmond Y. Wong) ]
See my initial notes:
I recently learned of Elicit: “a GPT-3 powered research assistant. Elicit helps you classify datasets, brainstorm research questions, and search through publications.”[1]
initial question: how does this change “the configuration of values”[2] in scholarly search and discovery?Example query: Elicit [ what is search automation bias ]
See my engagement here:
Speculative classroom exercises: A recent marketing email from http://Consensus.app demonstrated a use case by asking: do gas stoves cause asthma?[1] Exercise 1a: Write a brief comment on how the activities of science and policy making are presented in the email.
Example query: Consensus [ what is search automation bias ]
I do not use Google Scholar. I will not comment on it further here. See my discussion of #refusal re my paper with Jake Goldenfein.