Google Scholar and Its Competitors

Dr Ingrid Hsieh-Yee is a full professor of the School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America. With a doctoral degree in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she specializes in information organization and access. Her research interests include organization of information, user interactions with information systems, metadata, digital collections, and research methods. Dr. Hsieh-Yee has won several research awards. In recent years she investigated users' Web search behaviour, users' experience and perceptions of a federated search system, the search performance of Google Scholar and Academic Search Premier, and the effects of subject headings and table of contents on subject searches. She has published extensively.

Scholars and scholarship; Journals and monographs; Publishers and the publishing industry; Librarians and libraries; Economics; Author's rights and intellectual property; The open movement: Open access, open data, and open source science; Emerging trends and formats; Leadership opportunities for libraries.