What is Google Scholar?
Google Scholar (GS) is a free academic search engine that can be thought of as the academic version of Google. Rather than searching all of the indexed information on the web, it searches repositories of publishers, universities or scholarly websites.
This is generally a smaller subset of the pool that Google searches. It's all done automatically, but still most of the results of a search tend to be reliable scholarly sources. However, Google is also less careful in what it includes in search results than are more curated subscription based, academic databases such as Scopus and Web of Science, so it is worth making your own assessment of the credibility of the resources linked through Google Scholar.
Why is it better than "normal" Google for finding research papers?
We all use Google for our daily internet searches, so why should we switch to Google Scholar?
One advantage of using Google Scholar is that the interface is comforting and familiar to anyone who uses Google. This lowers the learning curve of finding scholarly information. There are a number of useful differences from a regular Google search, such as
the option to copy a formatted citation in different styles including MLA and APA
export bibliographic data (BibTeX, RIS) to use with reference management software
links that let you explore which other works have cited the listed work
links that let you easily find full text versions of the article
Although it is free to search in Google Scholar, most of the content is not freely available, but Google does its best to find copies of restricted articles in public repositories which often contain earlier drafts (preprints). If you are at an academic or research institution, you can also set up a library connection to highlight items which are available through your institutionโs subscriptions.
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