#google-scholar — Public Fediverse posts
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So Google Scholar now bars you from accessing search term results or papers from your Scholar alerts if youre on a VPN server. In every browser, with or without blocked trackers etc. I have to use a Brave Tor window to access Google Scholar. I am not turning off the VPN just to please Google.
Extractive tech practices are now at epidemic level.
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@cxli For context: the #acmdl frictions make systematic reviews painful. It feels borderline unusable as a research tool and is incomplete.
#googlescholar is more complete, but the accuracy of the metadata drops off. I've found that historic searches (e.g., <1950) are mostly incorrectly dated.
I was curious whether this is corroborated by research and came across: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7079055/
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"A new environment for license negotiations: 40% of recent articles in the top publishers' subscription/hybrid journals are freely available online" @ The Journal of Academic Librarianship:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2026.103241
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Buenos días!
Hoy me despierto descrubriendo que google scholar ha vetado las VPNs. ¿sabéis de alguna alternativa? Al google scholar digo, tengo pendiendte la desgooglezación :).
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So, there we go... #GoogleScholar has started blocking my beloved #ProtonVPN 😡
To be honest, I did need one more reason to stop using even this Google service. I am sorry that it came this far... 🤯
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2/ #KI kann für so viele Zwecke eingesetzt werden. Die ist so extrem hilfreich und kann viele Abläufe vereinfachen.
Ich wünsche mir ein KI-Tool, dass mir automatisch Ampeln, Fußgängerüberwege, Hydranten und Hydrantinnen und Fahrräder auf Bildern von #googlescholar anzeigt.
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Das nervt so! Jetzt will #googlescholar auch noch Fahrräder oder Ampeln markiert kriegen.
Erst haben die SPAMer Email kaputt gemacht, jetzt machen die KI-Fuzzis den Rest vom Internet unzugänglich.
Ich muss jetzt vielleicht zehnmal am Tag beweisen, dass ich ein Mensch bin. Und nein, ich mache keine Cookies für Google an.
#googleisevil außer Google Scholar natürlich. =:-)
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Browser-Addon "Google Scholar OA Status" by Lukas Wallrich
https://github.com/LukasWallrich/gs_oa_status
"A Chrome extension [also working in Edge] that displays open access (OA) status badges on Google Scholar search results, helping researchers quickly identify articles that are legally available to everyone (e.g. for inclusion in reading lists, or use as examples in research software)."
#GoogleScholar #OpenAccess #tools
[via @aufdroeseler via https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukas-wallrich_forrt-openaccess-researchtools-activity-7422977894047612928-QZRC/] -
@hfalcke I’m glad we/you keep paying Google (Scholar) with our data for this “service”…
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Som forsker irriterer det mig, at jeg hele tiden sidder og laver søgninger i Google Scholar. Uden i øvrigt at være fanatisk ville jeg gerne have et brugbart alternativ. Forslag?
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What Do We Actually Mean by “AI-Powered Search”? – Substack- Aaron Tay
What Do We Actually Mean by “AI-Powered Search”?
When we say “AI-powered search engine,” we’re conflating at least four different things—and your concerns about one may not apply to another.
By Aaron Tay, Dec 27, 2025
I’ve been watching the reactions to Google Scholar Labs with considerable interest. The responses range from enthusiastic embrace to outright rejection. One response particularly intrigued me—someone mentioned they were initially reluctant to try because they’d heard it was “AI-powered” but became more interested when they read my review and realized what that actually meant (they expected it to generate answers to questions when all it did was do better ranking).
Another interesting puzzle was when I noticed some library guides listing Semantic Scholar as “Semantic/Neural Search” when a technical look at their main retrieval method reveals the main search is still largely lexical search.
While one can understand and agree with the listing of Semantic Scholar as “AI powered” due to clear AI features like TLDR, doing the same for Lens.org and OpenAlex is a much harder sell, because they not only just do keyword search but they lack the obvious AI features of Semantic Scholar.
It’s made me realise we might all be talking past each other because we haven’t actually defined what we mean.
“AI-powered search engine” is a handy catch-all term used by vendors, but it actually hides a diverse set of systems and functionality. In this post, I’ll dissect the different ways academic search can be “AI-powered” so you can decide which types actually cross the line for you.
I am going to argue that we often mean at least 4 different things when we call something “AI-powered search”
- Level 1: Post-Retrieval AI Features
- Level 2: Going beyond Lexical Search with Semantic Search
- Level 3: LLMs for Retrieval and/or Relevance Ranking
- Level 4: Synthesis and Generation Across Papers
- Level 0??: Use of AI to extract, cluster, or organise metadata used for retrieval
Levels here may not be the right framing, as the four different categories are largely orthogonal (except maybe Level 3 is a subset of level 2), but they map to most common academic search products (e.g. Level 4 is usually Deep Research) and higher levels generally reflect higher risk and greater amount of pushback from librarians.
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The Spectrum of AI in Search
Level 1: Post-Retrieval AI Features
Does “AI-powered search engine” mean “AI” that impacts the search process only? Not necessarily. There’s a whole category of AI features that don’t affect the search results you get at all. Things like optional summarisation of individual items (e.g., AI Insights on Ebscohost databases), translation tools, or text-to-speech features.
These are post-retrieval conveniences. You search, you get your results list (however that list was generated), and then you have the option to use AI to help you process what you found. The search itself? Unchanged.
In theory, if you don’t like these features, you can ignore them.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: What Do We Actually Mean by “AI-Powered Search”?
Tags: Aaron Tay, AI, AI-Powered, AI-Powered Search, artificial intelligence, Google Scholar, Google Scholar Labs, Google Search, Levels, Lexical Search, Semantic Scholar, Substack, Technology, Various Systems
#AaronTay #AI #AIPowered #AIPoweredSearch #artificialIntelligence #GoogleScholar #GoogleScholarLabs #GoogleSearch #Levels #LexicalSearch #SemanticScholar #Substack #Technology #VariousSystems -
#GoogleScholar bietet zur #Literaturrecherche jetzt auch #KI an ...
Ein Test:
https://www.profi-wissen.de/literaturrecherche-mit-ki-scholar-labs/ -
Fascinating! Not even #Google's own product #GoogleScholar is setup correctly to show up properly in the search results.
#SEO #AcademicChatter #PhDLife -
Labs Google Scholar - #AI powered research tool, outil de recherche alimenté par l' #IA développé par #googlescholar - vient d'être déployé pour le grand public
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Oh, boy. #GoogleScholar is experimenting with blending AI with your favorite literature search engine. I worry that the results you get are not an improvement over standard search, and the process makes it harder to teach students how to do good searches.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_labs/search -
Scholar Labs Early Review: Google Scholar Finally Enters the AI Era - Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-labs… #AI #GoogleScholar
Scholar Labs Early Review: Goo... -
Larry Ferlazzo: Google Unveils “Scholar Labs” For Academic Research – Seems “Meh”. “Google has unveiled ‘Scholar Labs,’ an AI tool designed to assist academic research. It’s part of what appears to be an unending search for ways to make their AI useful. They haven’t been that successful in the past, and I’m less-than-impressed with this new tool.”
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Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/schola… #AI #GoogleScholar
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AI + Google Scholar: Say Hello to Google Scholar Labs! https://www.infodocket.com/2025/11/18/ai-google-scholar-say-hello-to-google-scholar-labs/m #scholcomm #libraries #LLMs #GoogleScholar
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google scholar blog: "Mark it up! Highlight and comment in Scholar PDF Reader "
https://scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/mark-it-up-highlight-and-comment-in.html
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#googlescholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors | Nature
A browser extension called GScholarLens provides a weighted #metric , called the Scholar h-index (Sh-index), which accounts for a researcher’s position in author lists, giving corresponding (or last) authors the highest weighting
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4 -
#SteadySupporter #Artikelupdate
Immer häufiger tauchen KI-generierte Arbeiten in wissenschaftlichen Archiven auf – oft mit manipulativem Potenzial.
Besonders heikel wird es, wenn politische Themen oder Gesundheit im Fokus stehen. Die Einschleusung unseriöser Veröffentlichungen in den Wissenschaftsbetrieb stellt ein großes Risiko für die wissenschaftliche Integrität dar.
#Wissenschaft #KI #Desinformation #GoogleScholar #Studienqualität #Wissenschaftskommunikation
