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Google - Advanced search - Scholar

Tips and Tricks

Searching

Advanced Search

Google Scholar

  • Save time
  • Narrow your search
  • Weed out unwanted results
  • Set limiters for accurate results
  • Dates, languages, countries
  • Select domain i.e. 'edu' or 'org'
  • Select file format i.e. 'PDF' or 'doc'
  • Google usually ignores punctuation

Citation Tool

Google Scholar

Google

  • Academic articles
  • Find quick links to BMIHMS database articles
  • Download citation tool (Chrome only)
  • Provides 'cited by' links
  • Links to related articles
  • Cannot limit to 'Peer-reviewed'
  • Many articles are subscription only
  • Cannot limit search to full content articles

More than just a pretty space!

  • use "quotes"
  • use the asterisk *
  • keep it simple
  • use minus sign (hyphen) -
  • search for a file type :pdf
  • "I'm feeling puzzled" or "I'm feeling playful" - boredom busters!

Google's mission- "to organize the world's information & make it universally accessible & useful".

Library's mission- to organise the world's information & make it accessible & useful to you!

Google is-

  • A handy tool
  • Useful for quick links
  • Huge and constantly changing
  • NOT a credible source of academic information

SLMcCormack 2016

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