4. Using web engines

4.1 The most common

• Google Scholar , http://scholar.google.fr/

This is Google's search engine for academic literature. It indexes the world's scientific literature and provides free access to IST (sources and volumes not specified). It announces peer-reviewed articles, theses, books and abstracts, and includes the entire HAL open archive.

In particular, it will be used to identify open-access scientific literature, to locate and retrieve the full text of documents when available, to link with bibliography managers, to calculate citations and to statistically track citations on researchers' public profiles.

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