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Google Scholar Workshop
The document provides a guide on how to effectively use Google Scholar for research, including its strengths and weaknesses, and features like citation tracking. It explains how Google Scholar ranks results and offers tips for basic and advanced searching techniques. The guide also encourages users to seek help from librarians for further support.
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- 1. LEARN IT @THE LIBRARY: GOOGLE SCHOLAR MANDI GOODSETT, PERFORMING ARTS & HUMANITIES LIBRARIAN
- 2. PLAN Why useGoogle Scholar? How does it work? Basic Searching Advanced Search Tips Citations Getting Help
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- 4. WHAT DO YOUKNOW ABOUT GOOGLE SCHOLAR? Work on your own or with a partner to find the answers to the questions. Use the first two tabs in the library research guide at the following link to help you: http://researchguides.csuohio.edu/googlescholar
- 5. WHY USE GOOGLESCHOLAR?
- 6. PURPOSE OF GOOGLESCHOLAR
- 7. PURPOSE OF GOOGLESCHOLAR Convenient way to find research articles Can explore related works easily Links to the full text on the web or through the library Keep up with scholarly conversation in a field Can track citations
- 8. HOW DOES GOOGLERANK RESULTS? "Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature."
- 9. HOW DOES GOOGLERANK RESULTS? "Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature."
- 10. STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSESOF GOOGLE SCHOLAR
- 11. STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSESOF GOOGLE SCHOLAR Strengths Helpful for finding articles related to subject of interest Helpful for finding “grey literature” Easier to find obscure references Can search books and articles at the same time (although you can do that on the library website too)
- 12. STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSESOF GOOGLE SCHOLAR Weaknesses Can’t browse by discipline Few sorting/limiting options Many library resources not represented Full text for everything not accessible Ranking? What’s included?
- 13. WOULD YOU USEGOOGLE SCHOLAR? You are writing a research paper for your English class and need to find peer-reviewed sources. Your topic is the play Hamlet and you need sources from common, authoritative journals in the field of literature.
- 14. WOULD YOU USEGOOGLE SCHOLAR? A. Yes B. No Yes No 50%50%
- 15. WOULD YOU USEGOOGLE SCHOLAR? You have been assigned to do a project for your theatre history class. You are researching a fairly contemporary, obscure playwright for your project and are having trouble finding sources.
- 16. WOULD YOU USEGOOGLE SCHOLAR? A. Yes B. No Yes No 50%50%
- 17. WOULD YOU USEGOOGLE SCHOLAR? You are writing a thesis paper and are trying to conduct as thorough of a literature review as possible about your topic, music therapy and autistic children. You have already reviewed the library’s resources.
- 18. WOULD YOU USEGOOGLE SCHOLAR? A. Yes B. No Yes No 50%50%
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- 20. QUICK REVIEW Howdo I set my preferences to show Cleveland State in Google Scholar? How do I eliminate results that are patents? Where can I see how many times an article has been cited? How do I get to the full text of an article I find?
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- 22. ADVANCED TECHNIQUES Findrelated stuff Related articles links Cited by links Use the reference list in relevant article
- 23. ADVANCED TECHNIQUES Niftysearching tricks Use “authored by” field Use quotes for phrases Use “where my words occur” field to get more specific
- 24. FIND IT! With apartner, find 2 articles about a topic you choose together. Fill in the info about your articles listed on the handout.
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- 27. TRACKING CITATIONS Save articles to viewlater Track the citation of articles you have written Get alerts when others cite your work Get stats about the citation of your work
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- 29. GETTING HELP Aska librarian! a.goodsett@csuohio.ed u Ask Your Personal Librarian page http://researchguides.c suohio.edu/googlescho lar Google Scholar Help
- 30. MINUTE PAPER 1)One thing you learned 2) One thing you wish you knew more about/are still confused about 3) Any other comments or questions Don’t forget to fill out your survey as you leave!