A new toy ...

... whoops, I meant serious research tool.

www.scholar.google.com

I just used it to update my bibliography of the poet Isabella Whitney.

And I'm off to the library soon to check them out - that step is still necessary, but we really are getting closer to Roland Barthes's ideal text: "the networks are many and interact, without any one of them being able to surpass the rest … it has no beginning; it is reversible; we gain access to it by several entrances".

See my thesis here for the reference.