HARVESTING CAPABILITY OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THREE MAJOR JOURNAL LISTS-DOAJ, HIGH WIRE AND BIOMED CENTRAL

Google scholar a subset of the larger Google search engine, an incredible tool allowing researchers to search a wide array of scholarly literature across the Web, including scholarly journals, abstracts, peer reviewed articles, theses, dissertations, books, preprints, Power Point presentations and technical reports from universities. The paper seeks to examine the awareness and usage of Harvesting Capability of Google Scholar: A Comparative Study of Three Major Journal Lists-DOAJ, High wire and Biomed Central The present study was carried out by conducting a survey using questionnaire method.