Is Google better than the catalog?

Huh.

So I'm looking up journal articles. I've got the references--I'm just trying to get the text. So I start with the catalog.

No luck.

So I try FindText (our SFX server). Academic Search Premier has full text of the article, but only starting in 2003.

I'm looking for 2002.

So I Google the author--maybe she archived it herself.

I find her library, but no personal web page.

I add the first couple words of the title to the Google Search.

The first entry is a link to PubMedCentral, which has html and pdf full text of the article.

Would someone please tell me why I should keep using the library catalog to see if we have access to the full text of a given title?

PLEASE NOTE: this is an extremely geeky post which will be of no interest to anyone that doesn't work in technical services. I apologize in advance to my other 3 readers.

BTW: I'll post that banana bread recipe as soon as I get copyright clearance from the cookbook