Google Scholar

Google's search engine for academic study

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

Google Scholar allows users to search academic literature and is a useful tool for university students. It is possible search across a number of disciplines and sources such as:

• articles
• theses
• books
• abstracts
• academic publishers
• professional societies
• online repositories
• universities
• other web sites.

'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.'
Google Scholar help: about Google Scholar. [Web document]. Mountain View, CA: Google, 2005 [Accessed Sep 2017]. https://scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/scholar/about.html

When using Google scholar students and staff who work for an academic institution who are logged on to their institution's network will be automatically shown a link (to the right of the search return) to digital versions of articles held or subscribed to by the library or held on the library's database. These links could be to a pdf of a book, an e-book or an HTML version of a book. Obviously, it is not limited to books. It could be a link to a chapter of a book, a journal article, and so on. These features are not available to general users as most journals are published by companies that do not wish to give away their content for free.  Universities and similar institutions pay for access to published materials through Google Scholar.

Google Scholar is a useful tool for students or indeed teachers who have to do academic research.

Google Scholar can be found at:

http://scholar.google.com/