What is Google Scholar?
What is Google Scholar?
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar is an interdisciplinary search engine that indexes articles from academic publishers, professional societies, institutional and pre-print repositories, and scholarly articles posted on the web. Use the "Full Text @ Le Moyne Library" links in the search results as well as publisher or open access links to locate the full-text of articles.
Benefits of Google Scholar
Benefits of Google Scholar
- Features similar to Google's regular search engine
- References can be starred to save for later
- Citation information provided
- Search vast array of information; technical reports, preprints, society publications
- Links to full-text if available, including "Full Text @ Le Moyne Library"
- Citations can be exported to Mendeley reference manager
- Create email alerts when new articles are indexed
Caveats of Using Google Scholar
Caveats of Using Google Scholar
- Need to check Find Journals to determine if articles are owned by Library
- Uneven coverage in the social sciences, better for hard sciences
- No way to limit results to just scholarly publications
- Few options to limit or narrow search results
- Evaluate article quality and source before trusting it