Google Docs Intros Updated Citation Tool
David Nagel,
Campus Technology,
Nov 07, 2021
This is a really short article but it introduces readers to what is potentially a really significant Google Docs tool (I know this because I've been working toward building the same sort of functionality into gRSShopper to make writing articles and these newsletters a lot easier). Basically, the idea is that " When adding citations in Google Docs, you can now search for books and online sources, then automatically populate some attributes for those sources." That may not seem like much, but tools like Overleaf make a huge difference in the writing workflow, and connecting similar functionality to search just seems to make a lot of sense. What's missing? Open access. Too many of Google's searches point to paywalled and closed access resources (this applies especially to Google Scholar). Just having an 'open access' flag on search results would make a huge difference. The publishers would probably never allow that, though.
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