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Google scholar Part 2
Gerald Louw presented on Google Scholar and discussed its goals, functionality, and search strategies. Google Scholar was launched in 2004 and contains scholarly literature like journal articles, books, and citations. It allows users to set preferences, create alerts, and view citation metrics. Advanced search features allow restricting searches by date, publication, or field. While it covers many subjects and languages, it still has gaps in top journals. Strategies like cited reference searching, building block searches, and pearl growing can aid research.
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- 2. GOALS How GoogleScholar works Settings in Google Scholar Strategies for searching Use a citation management tool in Google Scholar Evaluating Websites
- 3. GOOGLE SCHOLAR Debutin November 2004 Content has grown significantly Simplicity, Google Scholar, popular Google Books project has given boost to content Not really a subset to Google search Not all publishers of academic information Resource devoted to scholarly literature Journal articles, books, citations, conference proceedings
- 4. SETTINGS IN GOOGLESCHOLAR
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- 11. GOOGLE SCHOLAR METRICSFOR PUBLICATIONS
- 12. GOOGLE SCHOLAR AUTHORCITATIONS
- 13. GOOGLE SCHOLAR JOURNALIMPACT FACTOR
- 14. SEARCH METHODS CitedReference Search One relevant article/ book, lead to other references Ask supervisor for recommendation for key article Building Block Search Formulate queries based on the elements or concept groups “OR”- ing synonyms, using controlled or free vocabulary. Pearl growing Use the characteristics of the “pearl” to successively grow a set of related documents: use assigned index terms-words, names, citations, publication data, or structural and statistical properties to formulate queries to retrieve subsequent sets.
- 15. SEARCHING AND betweenwords + to include common words “quotation marks” to search for a phrase - to exclude from search OR for either word search Author: for author search Intitle: to search title Restrict by date and publication Advance Search
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- 20. PROS AND CONSOF GOOGLE SCHOLAR Pros Content has grown Google Books project has enhanced the content Includes languages other than English Library links is good to identify sources locally Delivering citation counts Cons Still gaps in top ranking journals Some subjects are covered more than others It is unclear how results are ordered
- 21. ACCESS AN ARTICLEYOUR INSTITUTION IS NOT SUBSCRIBED TO Your library through Inter Library Loans Search Google Scholar on the title and author to see if it points you to a free copy. Search JSTOR for older articles Search for the author on Google, the author might provide a link to the full text. Search on Open Access search engines such as OAlster. Search your library catalogue Search for the journal it might have a website that makes the article freely available
- 22. REFERENCE LIST Badke,W. B. (2008). Research strategies: Finding your way through the information fog. New York: iUniverse Jacsó, P. (February 22, 2008). Google Scholar revisited. Online Information Review, 32, 1, 102- 114. Ó, D. N. (2012). Internet research skills. London: SAGE. Wang, Y., & Howard, P. (January 01, 2012). Google Scholar Usage: An Academic Library's Experience. Journal of Web Librarianship, 6, 2, 94-108.
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Introduction to Google Scholar
- #3 Explain the goals of the presentation.
- #4 Google Scholar made its debut in 2004. The content of Google has grown significantly. The simplicity of Google Scholar made it popular. The Google Books project has given a boost to the content of Google Scholar. Google Scholar is not subset to Google search. Not all the publishers of academic content supply their information to Google Scholar. The content of Google Scholar include journal articles, books, citations and conference proceedings.
- #5 Access Google Scholar through the A-Z Databases of the library. First click on A (A-Z Databases), followed by a click on G under red B, There after click on C (Google Scholar).
- #6 User name: student number/ staff number Password: date of birth (yymmdd) or full identity document number (13 digits)
- #7 The red alphabetic letters shows the options a user can use to navigate the Google Scholar platform.
- #8 Setting the library link (A), Setting reference management tool (B), choose Refworks ( C ) and save (D).
- #9 Very important to double check whether your library is linked to Google Scholar, if not fill in the details of your library in the blank space.
- #10 The moment the user click on the Alerts option, Google Scholar will ask the user to sign in.
- #11 If the user want to create, the user can put in the resource or search terms.
- #12 Google Scholar metrics for publications e.g. subject, journal, h5-index.
- #13 Author citations.
- #14 Journal impact factor with the h5-index, position of journal in subject area and cited by.
- #15 Search methods.
- #16 Searching strategies.
- #17 Click on drop down arrow to for the advance search options.
- #18 Advance search box.
- #19 Understanding the search results e.g. conference paper, book and full text article.
- #20 Understanding search results e.g. cited by, import to Refworks, related articles, save, all versions and more.