Purpose

This study aims to focus on how librarians use and promote Google Scholar (GS) 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.

Design/methodology/approach

This study provides a longitudinal analysis of the opinions and uses of Google Scholar by the Ohio consortium of libraries, OhioLINK. This study uses survey data that was collected in 2007, 2014 and 2019 via the OhioLINK Listserv and builds off of co-author’s previous study (2008), which examined the attitudes of OhioLINK librarians as it related to Google Scholar.

Findings

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.

Research limitations/implications

Respondents were not asked for the type of library where they work or to identify their position within their libraries, which necessarily limits the conclusions that can be drawn from the survey responses. In retrospect, limiting the sample to instruction librarians or faculty librarians might have yielded more meaningful results. Additionally, this project did not evaluate the uses and opinions of librarians using GS at the reference desk. By providing this information, it would be easier to truly glean the uses and opinions of librarians with regard to GS.

Practical implications

This research will assist librarians contextualize how one of the most popular research resources has been used and promoted by those within the field and how those opinions have changed over time. This study will provide context into how Google Scholar became one of the most popular research tools and how attitudes of this unprecedented, and controversial, resource came to be accepted by librarians over the past 15 years.

Social implications

This study will help librarians better contextualize how other librarians use and promote Google Scholar. Furthermore, it demonstrates how a controversial information research tool became accepted by those in the field over time.

Originality/value

According to the authors’ knowledge, this research is the only study to provide a longitudinal analysis of the librarian opinions of Google Scholar. It targeted the same audience in identical surveys in a way no other Google Scholar research has done. It builds off of the co-author’s (2008) work, which is a well-cited study regarding librarian attitudes of Google Scholar. This research was done on the 15th year anniversary of Google Scholar.

中文翻译：

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俄亥俄LINK图书馆员和Google Scholar随着时间的推移：对态度和使用的纵向分析

目的

这项研究的重点是图书馆员在图书馆教学会议中如何使用和宣传Google Scholar（GS）。这项研究还研究了如何在图书馆网站上推广Google Scholar和Google Scholar发现层（图书馆链接）。然后在三个日期范围内分析此信息。

设计/方法/方法

这项研究对俄亥俄州图书馆联盟（OhioLINK）对Google学术搜索的观点和使用进行了纵向分析。这项研究使用了2007年，2014年和2019年通过OhioLINK Listserv收集的调查数据，该数据是基于合著者之前的研究（2008年）得出的，该研究调查了OhioLINK图书馆员与Google Scholar相关的态度。

发现

这项研究的结果表明，在2007年至2014年之间，Google学术搜索的使用和观点发生了重大变化，2014年至2019年之间的使用和观点发生了更多的标准化。

研究局限/意义

没有要求受访者提供他们所工作的图书馆类型或在图书馆中的位置，这必然限制了可以从调查反馈中得出的结论。回顾过去，将样本限制为指导性馆员或教师馆员可能会产生更有意义的结果。此外，该项目没有在咨询台使用GS评估图书馆员的使用和意见。通过提供此信息，可以更容易地真正了解馆员对GS的使用和意见。

实际影响

这项研究将帮助图书馆员了解本领域的人们如何使用和推广最流行的研究资源之一，以及这些观点如何随着时间而改变。这项研究将提供背景资料，说明Google学术搜索如何成为最受欢迎的研究工具之一，以及过去15年间图书馆员如何接受这种前所未有的，有争议的资源的态度。

社会影响

这项研究将帮助图书馆员更好地了解其他图书馆员如何使用和宣传Google学术搜索。此外，它展示了有争议的信息研究工具如何随着时间的流逝而被本领域的人们所接受。

创意/价值

根据作者的知识，这项研究是唯一对Google Scholar的图书馆员意见进行纵向分析的研究。它以其他Google学术搜索没有做过的方式，针对相同的受众群体进行了相同的调查。它以合著者（2008）的工作为基础，该工作是有关Google学术搜索的图书馆员态度的引人注目的研究。这项研究是在Google学术搜索15周年​​之际进行的。