Google Books and Google Scholar

I had a look at Google Books. It's an easy and fun application to use.
Particularly good for searching for works that are out of copyright.
I was able to browse through classic texts by ancient Greek writers
such as Plato, Homer and Zeno. Great for researchers and students alike.

I use Google Scholar a lot in my work. It is great to be able to set the 'Scholar Preferences'
so that my searches pick up books in the VU Library Catalogue and direct links to articles in full-text from our subscribed databases. It is fascinating to see how quickly Google Scholar has become essential to research since its launch in 2004. I hope that in conjunction with the rise of institutional eprint repositories Google Scholar wll be able to break the costly hold that publishers like Elsevier have over Universities. VU Library currently pays over $100,000 per year for the citation tracking products Scopus and Web of Science, and yet when I search a free product like Google Scholar for citations I get better results. Go figure...