What links to that?

There's a research technique that my reference textbook called "citation indexing." When you find an article that is right on target, find out what later articles cited that article (that is, put it in the footnotes). How do you do that? There may be other ways, but the way I have always done it is to use the ISI Web of Science database, which is a huge database of nothing but citations and has a way to search for articles that cite the article I found. I get access to Web of Science through my Mizzou account.

I'm using a similar technique now to update the Document Formats section of i-DLR. I want to find out if there are newer things since this section was last reviewed. It seemed worthwhile to try something like citation indexing. Fortunately, I can do that with Google.

Here are two methods:

1. Click on Advanced Search. Scroll down to the Page-Specific Search section. Put the URL of the page in the box labeled "Links" and Google will find pages that link to the page of interest.


2. Use the shortcut. Simply put "link:" in the regular Google search box followed by the URL (no space after the colon).

So, for example, I found five new possibilities just by seeing what has linked to that first resource on the Document Formats page, the Library of Congress' specifications for digitization projects.     #

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