Research Guides: Research: Finding Information: Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a search engine that provides links to full-text articles to which Peddie subscribes or to articles made freely available by the publisher. Scholar also provides articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and scholarly articles posted on the web.

Google Scholar is good for...

Helping a beginning researcher identify journal titles and authors connected with subjects of interest.
Finding "gray literature" like conference proceedings. It includes many articles that wouldn't get included in other indexing services.
Locating obscure references that are proving difficult to find in conventional databases.
Locating more information on partial citations.

Google Scholar cannot...

Keep in Mind:

You may get a long list of results, but you will only have access to the text of articles that the Annenberg Library has paid subscriptions for, or that are freely available.
Not everything in Google Scholar is scholarly. Google Scholar searches academic websites (.edu) as well as journals and publisher websites. Search results can include PowerPoints, news announcements or unpublished materials as well as articles and books.
Searching in Google Scholar is imprecise when compared with discipline-specific databases.