What is Google Scholar?
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. However, most often you have access to the citation--which you then use within a database search or as an interlibrary loan.
Features of Google Scholar
How are documents ranked?
Google Scholar 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. Note that more recent documents will have fewer number of CITED by amounts--they haven't been around long enough.
How to Use Google Scholar
one-sheet instructions
Google Scholar Search
Use Google Scholar to find scholarly sources. Google Scholar is a convenient way to search across multiple databases simultaneously. Look for the FullText@Mville links to locate availability in our Manhattanville University subscription databases. From off-campus, set Scholar Preferences to use Manhattanville as your library before searching.
This 3-minute video provides instructions on how to use Google Scholar and how to set preferences for searching library databases. Created March 2020.
This Guide was adapted from a Guide created by Kathy Fester, Aldephi University Libraries. Kathy Fester provided permission to adapt this guide. My thanks and appreciation. http://libguides.adelphi.edu/content.php?pid=364890
