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Google Scholar
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Contents:
- What
is Google Scholar?
- Using
Google Scholar via UMUC
- Performing
a Basic Search
- Search
Results and Finding Full Text
- Advanced
Searching
- Resetting Preferences
Google Scholar searches a small portion of UMUC library databases, as well as the free Web, to retrieve summaries of books and articles in a variety of academic areas. Google Scholar will find material on the Web that may or may not be peer reviewed. Be aware that it will miss a large percentage of scholarly articles that you can find by searching directly in a library database.
Always access Google Scholar through the link in UMUC library's Search by Subject guides. In each guide, under Web Sites, you'll find Google Scholar listed: accessing it through one of these links activates Find It @ UMUC, which enables you to find the full text of articles, when they are available in library databases.
To access Google Scholar via UMUC:
- From the library
homepage,
click on Search
by Subject.
- Click on any
of the subject guides, for example, Business
and Marketing.
- In the Table
of Contents, click on Web Sites.
- In the list of
Web Sites, click on Google Scholar.
- You will be brought
to an intermediate page with brief information; clicking on the Go
to Google Scholar link will take you to a sign-in page.
- If prompted, enter your last name and 14-digit barcode or EMPLID number.
Once you have accessed Google Scholar through the UMUC library Web site, perform a basic search as you would in Google.com, using keywords and phrases (put phrases inside quotation marks). For example, to research communication in multinational corporations, you can enter the search shown here:
Search Results and Finding Full Text
When the full text of an item is available in a UMUC library database, you will see a Find It @ UMUC link. Click on it and a Find it screen appears, showing the database(s) in which the full text is available. Click on a GO button to access the full text:
Sometimes, the Find It @ UMUC link appears below the item, rather than next to the title:
In these instances, the article is less likely to be available in full text.
When no Find It @ UMUC link appears with an item, clicking on the title of the item may link you to the full text on a free Web site. However, sometimes you will be linked to a Web site that asks you to pay for the full text. When that happens, you can request the full text of the item at no charge through UMUC library's DocumentExpress service.
Other elements of the search results list, such as Cited By, Web Search, etc., are explained on the Scholar Help page. From the Google Scholar homepage, click on Scholar Help.
To perform an advanced search, click on Advanced Scholar Search from the Google Scholar homepage. The following screen will appear, in which you can specify keywords, phrases, dates, subject areas, and so forth:
If, when you access Google Scholar through the UMUC library Web site and no Find It @ UMUC links appear in your search results, reset your preferences to include UMUC. At the Google Scholar homepage, click on Scholar Preferences. Then, in the Library Links box, type in UMUC. Click on Find Library. Then check the box for University of Maryland University College. Then click on Save Preferences:
