OhioLINK librarians and Google Scholar over time: a longitudinal analysis of attitudes and uses

What is it about?

This study provides a longitudinal analysis of the opinions and uses of Google Scholar by the Ohio consortium of libraries, OhioLINK. This study utilizes survey data that was collected in 2007, 2014, and 2019 via the OhioLINK Listserv and builds off of Giglierano's (2008) study which examined the attitudes of OhioLINK librarians at it related to Google Scholar. This study focuses on how librarians use and promote Google Scholar within their library instruction sessions. This study also examines how Google Scholar and the Google Scholar discovery layer, Library Links, is promoted on library websites. This information is then analyzed across the three date ranges. The results of this research suggested that there were significant changes in use and opinions of Google Scholar between 2007 and 2014 with more normalization of uses and opinions occurring between 2014 and 2019.

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