1. USING GOOGLE
SCHOLAR
FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH
HTTP://SCHOLAR.GOOGLE.COM/

2. ENTER SEARCH TERM
Used
truncation*

3. ON RESULTS PAGE, SET LIMITS
Create alert to be
informed of new
publications on topic

4. RESULTS PAGE

5. BENEFITS OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR
• Often a useful place to start, when you have some
keywords, author names, particularly if you have no
access to subscription databases
• Searches scholarly material including books, journal
articles, conference papers and other literature
from a wide range of subjects
• Will show a link to article in your university database
• Links to related articles
• Links to articles that cite the article