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...
Sort/search by disciplinary field
Browse by title
Limit search results
Search the deep web
Keep in Mind:
You may get a long list of results, but you will only have access to the text of articles that the Kaufman 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 Search results can include PowerPoints, news announcements or unpublished materials as well as articles and books.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.
Google Scholar Library Preferences
This video displays how to set Library link preferences in Google Scholar so that you search and have access to only the resources available through GGC.
