{"id":9,"date":"2024-04-03T23:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/academicinternet\/article-search-and-google-scholar\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:26:11","slug":"article-search-and-google-scholar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/academicinternet\/article-search-and-google-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Article Search and Google Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGoogle Scholar\u00a0is a search engine specially created for searching scientific information. It finds research articles and their different versions. One set of search results may contain, for example, a preprint, a journal article, a conference paper and a research report. Google Scholar lists the results by relevance, but materials from academic publishers and most cited articles\u00a0are shown first, meaning that materials from digital archives of universities (e.g., master\u2019s and doctoral theses) will be shown later in the results. Google Scholar also has an extensive legal database of US cases.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tGoogle Scholar has faced criticism for also indexing predatory journals, so critical evaluation of sources is necessary, as it is with other resources we use for finding information. Google Scholar is an excellent way to find full texts of needed articles if used with consideration.\u00a0It finds articles in commercial databases, and if the user has access rights, it opens full texts of the articles. Thus, if you use a\u00a0VPN connection, Google Scholar can open full texts from the databases purchased for the university.\u00a0<\/span>Setting up a VPN connection on your computer.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAdvanced search lets you search by keywords, authors and publications, limiting the search by years.\n<\/p>\n

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Fig. 1. Google Scholar advanced search.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tYou can refine search results on the left.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder search results, there are links.\n<\/p>\n