Libraries and librarians are constantly seeking new and better ways to help scholars find and use information. This fall, Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) teamed with Groxis to provide Stanford Grokker for the Stanford community. Stanford Grokker is an innovative research and information management tool that simultaneously searches many data sources, and presents results in a topically organized, visual map. Already, over 1300 Stanford faculty, staff, and students have begun grokking.
Stanford Grokker provides a single point of access to Socrates, HighWire Press, Expanded Academic ASAP, Academic Search Premier, the Library of Congress, and the web. SULAIR and Groxis continue to work together to add new features to Grokker and to expand the number of research sources that Grokker accesses.
Grokker presents results in a topically organized visual map, rather than in the long list of results typically provided by most search engines. Grokker's innovative mapping enables users to quickly identify and save relevant and valuable information, and to discover relationships among results.
Getting Grokker
Stanford Grokker is available now in the residence clusters and on computers in Green and Meyer Libraries. Stanford faculty, staff, and students can download Stanford Grokker to their personal computers at:
Send Your Feedback
The Stanford Grokker team wants to hear feedback on how they can continue to improve Grokker. Please send your comments and suggestions to support_stanford@groxis.com.
To see how Grokker can help you discover relationships among topics - and to have some fun - visit the Grokker puzzle page at:
