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POS 2510 Research Methods: Google Tips and Google Scholar

Guide to support Clark's Research Methods course.

Be a Google Power User

 

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Google Scholar

For scholarly sources

Also see the Research databases tab on this guide for subscription sources of scholarly information
 

"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."

Google Scholar

To set Google Scholar to link to Castleton's journal holdings:

  1. Go into Scholar Preferences
  2. Add Castleton to your Library Links
  3. Click on Save Preferences

Or, use Castleton's Journal Titles A-Z List to check for availability.

In your search results, click on

for a formatted citation like this:

"Cited by" shows how often this source was cited by other sources in Google Scholar.  Click on "Cited by..." to see sources that cite this one.

Google like a pro