Google Scholar

I've added Google Scholar to my sidebar as a handy lookup for anyone searching for fast information on scholarly topics (see below). hope you will enjoy this feature. For example, I entered the name "Keshavjee" (Director of the Lung Transplant Program at University Health Network, Toronto) and got an immediate listing of 813 papers that Dr. Keshavjee's name was cited in as an investigater. Try it for yourself!

What is Google Scholar?
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

How does Google Scholar work?
Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. This means your search results may include citations of older works and seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline publications.