Google’s influence on Chinese researchers
MAR 01, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024119
Nature News : Google’s search engine is a powerful tool for helping scientists to find academic papers and details of conferences or identify potential collaborators. And for most researchers around the world, access to Google—and all its related products, including the literature search Google Scholar—is unfettered.Despite some google results being censored by the Chinese government, the tool is widely used in China.So Google’s move to withdraw from the Chinese market after a series of hacking attempts on its servers, may have an unintended impact on access to the latest scientific research papers by Chinese scientists. Alternately, it may strengthen use of more specialized search engine products produced by scientific publishers who offer access to China at a free or discounted rate. Related Physics Today article Physics in China
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