Even Professors Google Away

Yesterday I helped a colleague teach a class on how to use EndNote to graduate students and faculty. A professor in environmental science came in a few minutes early and was seen researching a topic using Google. I asked him why he was searching Google and not one of the bibliographic databases. He asnswered saying that he had too many hits when he searched Scopus. I offered to help him after the session. I executed the search in Scopus and showed him how to sort by relevance. He also wanted only research done in the USA. I also showed him how to use the affiliation field from the drop down menu to limted the results. He seemed to be satisfied.