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What’s a Google Scholar?

No www!

http://scholar.google.com

Google Search vs. Google Scholar Search

Google Scholar searches for academic literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

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Getting Started – Auto Settings

First time? Use the library link to confirm your UWest status.

Then full text articles from library databases will show up

automatically.

You can also set this up without going through the library. See slide #6.

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Getting Started – Optional Settings

Go to settings.

http://scholar.google.com

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Getting Started – Optional Settings

Personal preference: Easier to keep track of

searches.Make it easier to

download bibliographic data.

Using Zotero? Select EndNote here.

Remember to save!

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Getting Started – Manual Settings

(2) Type uwest

(1) Select library links.

(3) Check this option.

This will cross check your search results to see if our library has the full text.

Skip this slide if you came through the library link (slide 3)

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The Search

Type in your keywords

“four noble truths" meditation

Put phrases in “” quotation marks when you want to find the words in that exact order

because it has a special meaning when used together.

“social learning theory” adults

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The Search - Advanced

Click on the down arrow to go to

advanced search

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The Search - Advanced

Same as using the “” quotation

marks.

When you choose in the title of

the article, you will get a smaller number of results,

but most likely very relevant

because it uses the words in the

title.

Filtering options

Get an email when a new article about your search

topic appears.

If our library has the full text article, this link will

show.

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These main links will most likely take you to a preview or ‘pay to access’ website. Any free & library affiliated

links will be on the right side.

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This item is a book.

The website that contains the bibliographic information for this item.

Author: first/middle

name initials and full last name

Published Year

This item was

mentioned in 81 other

items. Click on

this link to see those

81.

Articles with similar

topics, but maybe not

with the search

words you used.

Other websites that list

information about this

item.

Click here to download the bibliographic information into

Reference Managers such as EndNote and

Zotero.

Some additional features, see next

slide.

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Get ‘More’

Since this item is a book, the ‘full text’ article link does not

apply.

But under ‘More’ you can see if we have it as a ebook or

printed book.

It will search to see if our library

has an ebook firstIf not, search for library for printed

copies.

We have 2 copies.

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Get ‘More’ (2)

Library search will direct you to

Worldcat, where you can find the nearest library that has this

book.

Cite will help you with the citation of this item in APA,

MLA, Chicago style.

Be careful, sometimes they have inconsistent capitalization of

titles.

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Okay, that’s not too much info or anything...anything else?

• It’s always good to know what you are looking at before you decide to read or search for the item.

• So let’s see how you can easily tell what’s what in Google Scholar.

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Identifying the ItemBook

Book

Book

Book

Citation for ?????

?????

For BOOKS, it will say [Book] at the front of the link.

What about the ????

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Identifying the Item

When there is text between the author and the year, that is the Journal or Book Title. The item

itself is inside that journal or book. What page? Click on ‘more’ then ‘cite’, and you will find the page

number.

This is item “Gendered Religious Organizations...” is an article inside the journal:

Gender & Society.

This item “Buddhism, Women, and Caste: the Case of the Newar Buddhists of the Kathmandu Valley” is a chapter inside a book titled:

Buddhist women and social justice.

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What’s That? A Book!

Book Title

Book Title

Author

Nothing between Author and Year, so this item is most

likely a book.

Year

Book Title

Publisher

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What’s That? A Journal Article/Book Chapter!

Article Title

Chapter Title

Journal Title

Book Title

How do I know which is a book and which is a journal?

Journal titles are shorter and/or more generic.

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Also: Explore Our Databases

• Google Scholar may provide many relevant results, but our databases (ATLA, ProQuest Central) have features not available on Google Scholar:• Get Full Text Only results.• Limit search to Peer-Reviewed materials or specific

journals.• Browsing different issues of a journal.• Filter by subject, language, journal, and much more.

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We are a Work in Progress

Contact us if you need help, or setup a one-on-one appointment:• http://lib.uwest.edu/about-library/contact-us

• Suggestions & comments?• http://lib.uwest.edu/about-library/suggestions-comments