🎓Google Scholar

Recommended for Year 10 and DP Students.

Introduction

Google Scholar is a free search tool that specializes in locating scholarly materials (e.g. academic journal articles) across many disciplines. Not everything you find on Google Scholar is peer-reviewed.

Abstracts are freely available for most of the articles. Alas, reading the entire article may require a subscription. Here're a few things to try:

• click a link labeled [PDF] to the right of the search result

• click "All versions" under the search result and check out the alternative sources

• click "Related articles" or "Cited by" under the search result to explore similar

How to search in Google Scholar?

Breaking down the Search Results

Understanding Each Result

1. Meta-title of a scientific article in Google Scholar. When you click on it, the user automatically goes to the source page.

2. Information about authors. If the names of all or one of the authors are displayed as a hyperlink, the user will be able to go to the Google Scholar research profile.

3. Saving a Google Scholar article. By clicking on "Save", the work will be saved in "My library".

4. Ability to create an automatic bibliographic list based on the most common citation styles.

5. Acquaintance with the list of works where the material is cited.

6. Work related Google Scholar content.

7. View all versions of material in Google Academy.

If you're not sure what keywords to use when searching for information on a topic, try using an AI tool to suggest some for you. Copy the prompt below:

I'm writing an essay on [topic]. Please suggest some keywords that I could use in my search.

Google Scholar