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Google Scholar: a Very Short Guide

A guide to using Google Scholar, a tool for accessing scholarly content on the web.

Using Google Scholar

Get & Read Full-Text Scholarly Articles with No Added Fees

Unlike a regular Google browser search, Google Scholar will return scholarly articles and information results authored by academics, authorized specialists in their fields. Nice extra feature: see the number of researchers who have cited a source, right in the search results (example below). Click on that number and you will see the articles which cited the original and how they used the information. You can configure your personal Google Scholar to deliver results to which Lone Star College is already subscribed, thus eliminating results which would ask for a fee to read.

Google Scholar search result

 

Configure your Google Scholar account

Link your Google account to Lone Star College, so the “Find article @ Lone Star College” links will always appear – even if you don’t start your search from this page. Go to our customized settings screen and click Save. If you’re logged into a Google account, it will remember that setting from now on.

Try it out:
Google Scholar