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Stanford Grokker Is New and Improved!
A new version of the Stanford Grokker (Grokker
2.3) is now available for use by members of the Stanford community. Over
2300 members of the Stanford community are using Grokker as a
great new way to search and explore many SULAIR resources including
Socrates, Expanded Academic, HighWire Press and seven different
search engines.
Grokker’s topically organized visual maps
give Stanford researchers a simple way to explore, understand,
organize, and share vast amounts of information and search results.
Improvements included in Grokker 2.3 include:
- New information sources:
- RLG Union Catalog, an organization of over 150
research libraries, museums, and
other cultural memory institutions dedicated to expanding
access to their research materials.
- IEEE Xplore, a vast storehouse of full-text,
peer-reviewed transactions, magazines,
journals and conference proceedings.
- Ability to view the contents of your Grokker map in
a list form using List View.
- Expanded features and functionality for:
- Academic Search Premier
- Library of Congress
- Socrates
- Improved results and categorization for all information sources.
If you haven’t already, try Grokker and discover
a new way to retrieve, explore and understand information.
You can download Grokker 2.3 to your Mac or PC
at http://grokker.stanford.edu/.
You can also find Grokker 2.3 on most public or residential computer
clusters, and library kiosks.
To find out more about Stanford Grokker, please
visit:
http://library.stanford.edu/about_sulair/special_projects/stanford_grokker.html
Also, be sure to try out the Grokker puzzles in
the Stanford Daily and online at http://www.yougrok.com/.
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