Gary,
I think your one-stop shop reason is not why Google scholar dominates. I
think instead it is because libraries lack the inhouse capability to build
search.
Discovery tools are almost universally built by vendors, then libraries
rent use of the tool, specifically in order to allow cross
Les/Peter,
The problem I see with the many is the problem of FRAGMENTATION of search and
discovery. If I put my academic librarian hat on for a moment and observe the
way our students (and frankly, faculty too) tend to seek for needed/relevant
information, they want one-stop convenience. They
It is easy to forget that they are a commercial company and not an official
part of the web architecture. However, they are only a commercial company, and
just one of the myriad web indexers that account for about 50% of the visits to
any OA repository.
They have contributed significant public
