Times Higher Education - Hits and misses (google generation &...

Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future

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the Google generation - defined as those born after 1993, "a cohort of young people with little or no recollection of life before the web"

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Google is a Band-Aid, but it is also a symptom of our underfunded libraries. Our students are not only reading low-quality sources because they are easier, but because the higher-quality materials are not available to them on or off line."

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72 per cent of scholars surveyed for a report on self-archiving confessed to using Google to find scholarly literature on the web. Journal publishers of all sizes and importance are shaping their business plans around this phenomenon, sharing metadata with Google and other web crawlers in hopes of drawing users to content behind their tollgates

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