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Introduction to Power Searching Session Keene 2014

Notes and Self-Directed Learning Guide for the Keene 2014 Session

Google Scholar

Try Google Scholar

Google Scholar Search

Google Scholar Pros - Cons - & Alternaive Academic Search Engines

  • Google Scholar is a SEARCH ENGINE, not a bibliographic index.
  • It crawls across publisher's websites
  • You get some control in ADVANCED SEARCH FORMAT [see box below]
  • Free text searching / Natural Language

Pros :

  • It is free !
  • Crawls open access institutional repositories** which hold Open ACCESS articles for download
  • Connects to Refworks
  • Currency - As soon as an article is posted to a publisher's website, it is discoverable.  No waiting for indexing.
  • Can be set up to export citations to Refworks [see below] - albeit without the DOIs.
  • Can be set up to link to our A-Z gateway to full text [see below] - and sometimes that works.
  • Create Alerts

Cons:

  • No controlled vocabulary [subject headings/descriptors]
  • Citation hits can be manipulated
  • What is included? What is not?  They won't say.
  • No true Set Search [ although Boolean [and/or/not] features.
  • Cannot export groups of citations
  • NO Digital Object Identifiers !!!!! :(

When I use Google Scholar the most :

  • Best for quick reference or discovering keywords.
  • Idea generation : When I can accept serendipitous discovery with Keywods.
  • complementing a power search.

 

Weakest for comprehensive scholarly searching, e.g. CRR

Links to Google Scholar

How to set up Google Scholar for Refworks Export & Library Links

Set your Google Scholar to IMPORT CITATIONS into Refworks

  * Note: Google does not import DOIs.   Look them up at CrossRef.org

  1. Go to Google scholar   scholar.google.com
  2. From top menu choose : Settings
  3. On the Settings Page Scroll down to Bibliography Manager 
  5. Set button for Show Links to Import Citations into Refworks
  6. SAVE

 

Set your Google Scholar to Link to do a "back door" connection with the A-Z for our full text journals 

* Note:  This link does not always work for articles and will never work for books. 

  1. Go to Google scholar   scholar.google.com
  2. From top menu choose : Settings
  3. On the Settings Page left menu choose  LIBRARY LINK
  4. Type in antioch university and choose both selections
  5. If you could not get to the article from this back door link, you may be able to find it in the A-Z

  1. SAVE

 

 

Using Google Scholar - Refworks - ADVANCED Search

Google Scholar Advanced Search Feature Recommended

To find Google Scholar's ADVANCED Search Feature drop down the triangle on the right of the Google Scholar Search Box. scholar.google.com


Watch video below for demonstration.