Google Scholar
A very helpful, free resource that is often overlooked is Google Scholar. It’s overlooked because it’s hard to find—Google seems to be hiding it. There’s no mention of this resource on Google’s main home page. It’s a freely accessible web search engine that indexes scholarly articles, theses, books, conference papers, and more. Designed to provide a convenient way to search for scholarly literature across various disciplines, Google Scholar is particularly useful for academics, researchers, students, and anyone interested in accessing scholarly information.
The articles in Google Scholar come from a variety of sources: academic publishers, conference papers, theses and dissertations, unpublished scholarly research, books, and book chapters, in addition to open-access journals.
You can find Google Scholar by clicking on this link: https://scholar.google.com/. Or you can do a Google search for “Google Scholar” and it will probably be the first item that shows up. Once you are on the Google Scholar website, you can type your terms into the search bar and refine your search using the “advanced search” options and filters.
Some articles and books are available full text. Look over to the right of the citation and you may see “PDF” or “HTML”. Click on these, and the full text of the item will appear. Need more help? Look for the menu icon (three horizontal lines in the upper left corner of the Google Scholar homepage.) Click, and you should see a "Help" option.
And remember, please contact me for research assistance. I’m here!
~Judy Clarence, M.L.I.S., GMU Librarian
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