Google+Scholar

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What makes "Google Scholar" so different from regular ol' Google? Well here it from the mouth of Google:

"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."

Basically, Google Scholar provides only academically sound information, stuff that has been published and work that is scholarly. I know that as college students trying to find research, it is very annoying when trying to find scholarly information we stumble upon many websites that we know are not reliable because they look like they were made by the lay-person. Google Scholar helps us weed through, if you will, the junk on the internet that is not reliable.

Let's say you are writing a paper on the Odyssey and wanted to see what experts thought about the themes of the epic poem by Homer; maybe you wanted to look at scholarly articles and such just to see what people are saying. Go to:

scholar.google.com

Type in: Themes in "Odyssey"

You should get something that looks like this.



By using Google Scholar, you can find a wide range of sources in one spot. You can find sources like articles, doctorate theses, pieces of books, sometimes whole books, abstracts from books (a summary or intro to a book or academic paper). It is also easy to cite this information as whenever something is posted on Google Scholar the author, publisher, and date are all included. Also, Google Scholar lets you know if you can access a complete document through your library! Do you see on the right side of the picture the links to "Find it @SAU"? Isn't that cool?!

I always use Google Scholar to find articles that aren't in the SAU library and to do basic research. Hope you find this useful.

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For More Info: @http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar @http://library.shsu.edu/research/guides/tutorials/googlescholar/index.html