Research Strategies: Google vs Google Scholar

1. Research Strategies
VS.

2. Activity 1
1. Open two browser windows. Navigate to Google.com
in one window and Scholar.google.com in the other.
2. Type your topic or other academic topic of interest
into both search engines.
imperialism human rights coral bleaching
the fall of the Roman Empire debt spending
vernacular architecture of India poems of T.S. Eliot
*Be sure you type the exact same search term in both sites.

3. Activity 1
5. Review the results for both Google and Google
Scholar.
6. Complete questions 1 - 3 on the tracking chart.

4. • Texts written by and for
scholars
• Includes articles accessible
by university subscription
databases
• Search results have a
different layout & additional
sets of links to identify
related articles
• Variety of media; open
source/authorship
• Good for identifying public
interest and popular sources
(newspapers and magazine
articles); background
• Results can offer relevant
websites, institutions, and
associations for further study
• .org, .edu, .com, .net, .ae

5. In Google Scholar, query
“Tornado Warning System”

6. Information in a Google Scholar Result

7. Information in a Scholar Result
Can you find where it tells you:
1. The title
2. The authors' names?
3. When and where it was published?
4. Information from the text of the article (snippet)?
5. Which other articles cite this one?
6. What other articles exist on similar topics?
7. A list of all the places Google has found it online?
8. An available full-text source?
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8. Information in a Google Scholar Result

10. Modifying Your Results

11. Modifying Your Search

12. Activity 2
Academic articles discussing poet Langston Hughes’s representations of
of racial discrimination in the 1920s that were published in 2010 or later.3
Articles that cite Stephen Hawking’s "Particle creation by black holes.”
2
Articles similar to "Water Supply and Pollution Control" by JW Clark.
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How would you find the following on Google Scholar?
Record your research strategy on the Tracking Chart.