Google Scholar

Google Scholar Google’s latest offering, this time to search academic sources: ” 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.” ( Source: http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html)

Like many of Google’s other technologies, it’s currently in Beta, but if it works as promised, could be a useful tool when it comes to academic research.