Google Scholar Quick Search
Don't pay for full text! Set your Google Scholar preferences to show when Lister Hill Library has full text of articles. Use Illiad to request articles Lister Hill doesn't have.
Tips for Searching Google Scholar
Use quotes for author, title, or exact phrase
Use + to include a stop word (a, the, for), words that would otherwise be ignored
Use – to exclude results including the term: Halo –Xbox
Use OR to include either of your search terms: Incidence OR prevalence
Use Advanced Scholar Search to find specific citations
More Google Scholar Help
About Google Scholar
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Provides an easy way to search the scholarly literature
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Searches across many disciplines
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Finds papers, theses, books, abstracts, articles, citations, and working papers that can be difficult to find
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Searches full text of entire article
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Ranks results by relevancy, not date (user can choose date range to see historical or new articles)
- Can be customized under Scholar Preferences to show links to Lister Hill Library full text, when available
Google Scholar: Basic Search
The following 6-minute tutorial demonstrates how to do a search and access full text in Google Scholar.
Google Scholar Blog
Google maintains an official Google Scholar blog, which highlights the latest and greatest tricks and features of Google Scholar. Here are the most recent posts to this blog:
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How Google Scholar Ranks Results
The results are relevancy ranked. Google Scholar explains that it "aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature."
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