GOOGLE SCHOLAR Presented byGerald Louw

GOALS How Google Scholar works Settings in Google Scholar Strategies for searching Use a citation management tool in Google

Scholar Evaluating Websites

GOOGLE SCHOLAR Debut in November 2004 Content has grown significantly Simplicity, Google Scholar, popular Google Books project has given boost to

content Not really a subset to Google search Not all publishers of academic information Resource devoted to scholarly literature

Journal articles, books, citations, conference proceedings

SETTINGS IN GOOGLE SCHOLAR

OFF CAMPUS LOG IN

SETTING GOOGLE SCHOLAR

SETTING GOOGLE SCHOLAR

SETTING GOOGLE SCHOLAR

GOOGLE SCHOLAR ALERTS

CREATING AN ALERT

GOOGLE SCHOLAR METRICS FOR PUBLICATIONS

GOOGLE SCHOLAR AUTHOR CITATIONS

GOOGLE SCHOLAR JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR

SEARCH METHODS Cited Reference Search

One relevant article/ book, lead to other references

Ask supervisor for recommendation for key article

Building Block Search Formulate queries based on the elements or

concept groups “OR”- ing synonyms, using controlled or free vocabulary.

Pearl growing Use the characteristics of the “pearl” to

successively grow a set of related documents: use assigned index terms-words, names, citations, publication data, or structural and statistical properties to formulate queries to retrieve subsequent sets.

SEARCHING AND between words + to include common words “quotation marks” to search for a phrase - to exclude from search OR for either word search Author: for author search Intitle: to search title Restrict by date and publication Advance Search

ADVANCE SEARCH

ADVANCE SEARCH

UNDERSTANDING SEARCH RESULTS

UNDERSTANDING SEARCH RESULTS

PROS AND CONS OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Pros Content has grown Google Books project has enhanced the

content Includes languages other than English Library links is good to identify sources

locally Delivering citation counts Cons Still gaps in top ranking journals Some subjects are covered more than others It is unclear how results are ordered

ACCESS AN ARTICLE YOUR INSTITUTION IS NOT SUBSCRIBED TO Your library through Inter Library Loans Search Google Scholar on the title and author

to see if it points you to a free copy. Search JSTOR for older articles Search for the author on Google, the author

might provide a link to the full text. Search on Open Access search engines such

as OAlster. Search your library catalogue Search for the journal it might have a website

that makes the article freely available

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Wang, Y., & Howard, P. (January 01, 2012). Google Scholar Usage: An Academic Library's Experience. Journal of Web Librarianship, 6, 2, 94-108.

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