Google Launches New Search Interface For "Scholarly" Literature

From the FAQ about Google Scholar:

"Google Scholar [http://scholar.google.com/] enables you
to search specifically for scholarly literature, including
peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts
and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide
variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint
repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available
across the web."

See also from the New York Times,
Google Plans New Service for Scientists and Scholars.