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These authors examine the trust students have with both library search websites and other search engines such as Google. They discuss the attempt of colleges and universities to push students away from Google to Google Scholar. The authors then go on to explain how Google Scholar works and what one can accomplish from the main search page. The article explains how one can find the title of the book, book reviews, and a place to retrieve the book. It gives a number of examples of different searches that were conducted making it easier to see how to operate Google Scholar and its benefits. This article describes the reliance of students on Google and states that the only way to wean this Google reliance is Google Scholar.

The author discuses how students researches have begun to diverge from the library for quite some time now and Google Scholar is just more evidence of this. He describes how the lack of student tendency to use the library has struck fear into both university faculty and librarians. He then discusses a number of different approaches that colleges and universities are taking. Some have a strict no Google Scholar, others do not dismiss or endorse it, posting agendas that point users towards the library, and some accept Google Scholar as good enough for student use. This article describes what researchers desire and the ability of Google Scholar to provide this information.

The authors of this article tried to generate search technology to view library resources; however, they found a number of problems. Because of these struggles, they conducted an experiment comparing Organ State University Libraries design to Google Scholar. They use volunteers to conduct research in an efficient and effective way to discover the reliability of each student. They used both qualitative and quantitative data to determine how Google compares to other search engines. This article also presents charts and tables that make understanding the experimental result with more ease.