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PurposeTo provide a summary of the main features of Google Scholar.Design/methodology/approachReviews, contextualizes and provides a summary of Google Scholar.FindingsThis article compares the results of a sample search on “homeschooling in Google Scholar against the results in three fee‐based article index databases in the social sciences: PsycINFO, Social Science Citation Index, and ERIC. Comparisons are done in the areas of content, currency, relevancy, and overlap. Google Scholar yields more results and a greater variety in its types of sources along with a higher rate of relevancy, but less currency. Ultimately, Scholar’s lack of quality control and inability to let the user manipulate data make it less effective than the fee‐based databases at finding scholarly material in the social sciences.Originality/valueProvides a useful summary for information professionals.

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Southern blot analysis of EcoRI‐digested DNAs was used to study the genomic configuration of the human proto‐oncogene c‐myc in tissue samples from a series of 28 human malignant T‐cell and B‐cell lymphomas. Rearrangements of c‐myc were found in 12 (43 per cent) of the cases. In all but one of these the intensities of the hybridization signals from the aberrant c‐myc‐homologous fragments were much less than that from the 13 Kbp germ‐line fragment, suggesting that only a subpopulation of the cells in the tumour carried rearranged myc gene sequences. No relationship was found between the rearrangement of c‐myc and cell lineage or differentiation stage, though non‐germ‐line c‐myc‐homologous DNA fragments were more commonly found in tumours classed as high‐grade according to National Cancer Institute criteria.

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